Erdogan makes migration threat

With Greece already struggling to deal with an influx in arrivals of undocumented migrants from neighboring Turkey, comments by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday that his country may "open the gates" to migrants if it does not receive more international support fueled concern in Athens and beyond.
"We did not receive the support needed from the world and especially from the European Union, concerning the burden-sharing," Erdogan told a rally of his Justice and Development Party in Ankara, noting that his country is hosting 3.6 million Syrian refugees but has only received part of the sum pledged to it by the European Union in line with an agreement for migrant returns reached in 2016.
Erdogan also underlined the need for a so-called "safe zone" for refugees in northern Syria, appearing to link this directly to the migration crisis. "Our goal is for at least a...

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