“God forbid, in a very short time, having brought our border to Iraq in a safe state, one million will return in the first stage, two million refugees in the second,” RIA Novosti quoted Erdogan as saying.
Earlier, the head of the European Council, Donald Tusk, considered blackmail the promise of Erdogan to open the border and release refugees to Europe if the EU calls Operation Source of Peace an invasion.
October 9, Ankara announced the start of the ground part of the military operation "Source of Peace" in northeast Syria.
Erdogan said that the military operation in Syria against terrorists is carried out according to the plan submitted to the UN Security Council.