Turkey Can't Bear Afghan Refugee Burden For European Union: Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan had on Saturday noted that the EU has yet to honour a 2016 accord aimed at halting the flow of migrants to Europe.

Turkey cannot bail out the EU by taking in Afghans who worked for Western countries in Afghanistan as the Taliban take power there, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. "We have received a request to welcome local employees of a European Union mission in Afghanistan," a government statement quoted Erdogan as saying to European Council President Charles Michel in a telephone call. "The member states do not open their doors even to a tiny portion of the people who served them and who are in difficulty," the statement quoted him as saying. "You cannot expect Turkey to take on the responsibility of third countries," he said.