Ankara will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe - senior Turkish official
An aerial photo shows displaced Syrians driving through Hazano in the northern countryside of Idlib, after fleeing on January 28, 2020 its southern countryside towards areas further north near the border with Turkey.
An air strike by Syrian regime forces in Syria's northwest Idlib region killed 29 Turkish soldiers and wounded dozens, the local governor in the southeastern province of Hatay said separately early on Friday. Turkey's governing AK Party spokesman Omer Celik in a CNN Turk interview said that the country's refugee policy hasn't changed, but it will no longer be able to hold refugees.
Turkey has been hosting more than 3.7 million migrants since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011.
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