Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced what he described as the hypocrisy of the international community, when it celebrated International Women's Day and its "conscience toward refugees."
"When you look at the ruins of the Syrian crisis that has been going on for many years, you will see women and children under it," Erdogan said in a speech during a meeting organized by the Turkish Ministry of Family and Labor on the occasion of International Women's Day in Istanbul.
He added that his country "has not seen the international community pay enough attention to the murders of about one million people in Syria, even though most of them are women and children."
The Turkish president also denounced the Greek security forces' treatment of asylum seekers, especially women, and their use of violence to prevent them from entering their lands with the aim of reaching Western European countries.
Thousands of migrants and refugees have been trying to enter Greece - the European Union country - since Turkey announced on February 28 that it would not prevent refugees from leaving its territory, which was stipulated in a 2016 agreement with the European Union in exchange for billions of dollars in aid.
Turkey has said that it can no longer absorb the hundreds of thousands of refugees it hosts, especially with the possibility of receiving more people fleeing the escalation of fighting in northwestern Syria, but Greece wants to keep the new wave of refugees out of its territory.