Turkey cannot handle a fresh wave of migrants from
Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, warning that European countries will feel the impact of such an influx if violence in Syria's northwest is not stopped.
Turkey currently hosts some 3.7 million Syrian refugees, the largest refugee population in the world, and fears another wave from the Idlib region, where up to 3 million Syrians live in the last significant rebel-held swathe of territory.
Syrian and
Russian forces have intensified their bombardment of targets in Idlib, which Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad has vowed to recapture, prompting a wave of refugees toward Turkey.