President Erdoğan: Nearly 100 thousand people fleeing these attacks have started to move towards our borders

 

President and Party Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed AK Party’s provincial heads in Ankara.

“EUROPEAN COUNTRIES SHOULD ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY IN ORDER TO ENSURE TRANQUILITY IN IDLIB”

Mentioning the regime’s attacks and harassments in Idlib, President Erdoğan said: “Nearly 100 thousand people fleeing these attacks have started to move towards our borders. We have told the entire world, Europe in particular, that we cannot handle a new wave of migrants, and that all will eventually suffer if Turkey’s efforts in Idlib are not supported. European countries should assume responsibility, too, in order to ensure tranquility in Idlib, where almost 4 million people live.”

“OUR AGREEMENT WITH LIBYA IS IN LINE WITH THE INTERNATIONAL LAW”

Also referring to the agreement signed with Libya, President Erdoğan stressed: “Our aim with this agreement is not to usurp the rights of anyone in the Mediterranean, but, on the contrary, to prevent our rights from being usurped. If we had not taken this step, a scheme was being cooked up to confine Turkey to its coastlines. It was of course out of the question for us to remain silent in the face of these schemes which would have hindered us even from casting a fishing rod from the coast. What is more, our step is totally in line with the international law and similar initiatives in other parts of the world.”