Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug.2
By Orkhan Guluzade - Trend:
Turkey has protected Europe from the refugee influx, the TRT Haber news channel quoted Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying Aug.2.
He made the remarks during the meeting with international investors in Ankara.
“Europe has never kept its word. They haven’t yet paid 3 billion euros to upkeep the refugees,” he said.
Earlier, Turkey’s then Minister for the EU Affairs Volkan Bozkir said that by late February, Ankara will receive $3 billion euros allocated by the EU to upkeep the Syrian refugees in Turkey.
At present, over 2 million Syrian refugees are in Turkey. Syrian refugee camps in the country accommodate about 300,000 people. The rest of them are spread throughout the provinces and cities of Turkey. In Istanbul alone, there are currently 40,000 refugees from Syria.