“They (refugees. - RT ) want to return to their homeland ... I appeal to the whole world, but primarily to Europe and the USA:“ Support the efforts of Turkey, ”Hurriyet quoted Erdogan as saying.
He stressed that "at least 311 thousand refugees returned to the liberated regions of Syria".
Earlier, Erdogan said that the cooperation of the Russian and Turkish sides in the Syrian de-escalation zone Idlib saved the country from the influx of new refugees from Syria.
At the end of December 2018, the heads of the Turkish and Russian defense and foreign ministries discussed the steps to implement a memorandum on the creation of a demilitarized zone in Idlib.