Erdogan says up to 250,000 people fleeing from Syria's Idlib towards Turkey

FILE PHOTO: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leaves after the Global Refugee Forum at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, December 17, 2019, REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

ANKARA - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that up to 250,000 migrants were fleeing from the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib towards Turkey, adding that Ankara was trying to prevent them from crossing its border. Turkey hosts some 3.7 million Syrian refugees, the largest refugee population in the world. It fears a new wave from Idlib, where up to 3 million Syrians live in the last rebel-held swathe of territory, after Russian and Syrian government forces last month intensified their bombardment of targets in the region.

“Right now, 200,000 to 250,000 migrants are moving towards our borders. We are trying to prevent them with some measures, but it’s not easy. It’s difficult, they are humans too,” Erdogan told a conference in Ankara.

efero_patricia Maybe they have room at the Trump towers.

Why aren’t they using the facilities installed in Saudi Arabia. There is room for over 100,000 plus people within pristine facilities.

Erdogan is part of this massive humanitarian crisis ..

Erdogan invades Syria himself and starts complaining about refugees as a direct result of it. He already started invading Libya with his Syrian rebel forces last week before it was even discussed in his own government.

Wow, today's refugees get satellite TV

Open the doors and let them go to europe.. As Turkey we have been taking care of them for 9 years. İt is time to handle this crisis for europe.

Average length of time that refugees spend in camps is 17 yrs. - UN The EU has given Turkey about $6.7 billion since 2015 to help control the flow of migrants. About 6.7 million Syrians are refugees and 6.2 million people are displaced within Syria. Approx. half are children.

Hey Turkeys, Don’t stop at pilots....Detain those Syrians too!

Erdogan kills the Kurds same way with Syrians regime .

Help them, Sir.

He lies! The plan is by Erdogan himself and Putin and Al-Assad. The aim of Erdogan is to settle the Jihadist families of Idlib in the Kurdish & Christian home cities and towns that Turks and Jihadists already invaded.

Riiiight, and who's fault is that exactly? Oh! Right!... Perhaps had be not been busy conducting a Genocide in Syria people wouldn't be fleeing, just saying...

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Shocker! You can thank Putin for that !

So he just counted every single one of them yes?

the relocation continues rapidly.

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