Tusk considered blackmail Erdogan's threat to release refugees

According to Tusk, what is most worrying about the EU is that their "actions could lead to another humanitarian disaster that would be unacceptable."

“We will also never accept that refugees are used as weapons and to blackmail us. That's why I think yesterday’s threats from President Erdogan are completely inappropriate, ”Tusk quotes AFP.

In turn, the representative of the German government, Ulrike Demmer, announced Berlin's hope that Ankara would adhere to an agreement with the European Union on the placement of migrants in the country.

October 9, Ankara announced the start of the ground part of the military operation "Source of Peace" in northeast Syria.

EU and US countries condemned the start of the operation.

Erdogan later criticized the EU authorities ’condemnation of the operation and threatened to open the country's borders and release Syrian refugees to Europe.