Turkey Warns Next Wave of Syrian Refugees May End up in Europe

Turkey's EU Affairs minister warned in comments published on Friday, Turkey would struggle to cope with a new influx of refugees from Syria's civil war, and many of them would likely end up trying to get into Europe. Turkey is already sheltering close to 2 million Syrian migrants, more than any of the war-torn country's other neighbors, making it the world's leading host of refugees. Europe is already struggling with an immigration crisis, and European states cannot agree how to cope with it. More than 135,000 refugees and migrants have arrived in Europe by sea in the first half of this year, and almost 2,000 have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean. Many of them are fleeing war, repression and poverty in Africa and the Middle East. Bozkir said the amount Turkey had spent on refugees - it has established a string of camps along its 560-mile border with Syria - dwarfed the contribution from the European Union, which Turkey wants to join.