Turkey noted the unwillingness of the EU to recognize the “extraordinary burden” due to the migration crisis that Ankara bears.
“The accusation that the country with the largest number of refugees in the world uses the issue of migration for political purposes is new evidence of the hypocritical approach that we have been subjected to for many years,” the statement said.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry called on European countries to fulfill the obligations of the migration agreement of March 18, 2016 and not to impede the movement of refugees from Turkey to the border of Greece.
Earlier, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said that people who are sent to the Greek border are not refugees from the Syrian province of Idlib, but Turkish migrants who have lived in Turkey for many years.
The Greek government also accused Turkey of organizing a planned operation to send thousands of migrants to the border.
The Russian Center for the Reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, in turn, confirmed that the Turkish authorities "squeezed" into Greece about 130 thousand immigrants from Afghanistan, Iraq and African countries.