Turkey will no longer close its border gates to refugees who want to go to Europe, a senior official told AFP on Friday, shortly after the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in an airstrike in northern Syria, Eurasia Diary reports citing Al-Arabiya.
“We will no longer keep the doors closed for refugees who want to go to Europe,” the official said on condition of anonymity.
Nearly 300 migrants including Syrians have already arrived in Edirne province on the border with Greece in a bid to go to Europe, the private DHA news agency reported.
Another group of migrants arrived on the coast of Ayvacik in Canakkale, western Turkey, and wanted to go to the Greek island of Lesbos by boats, it reported.
The killing of Turkish soldiers in Idlib after an airstrike blamed on Damascus has prompted an emergency meeting chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.