Hague, Associated Press, 10 FEB 2016– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has lashed out at the United Nations after it demanded the country open its borders to tens of thousands of more Syrian refugees, accusing it of failing to stop the Russian bombings that have triggered the exodus.
Davutoglu said Wednesday he considered the U.N. Security Council “two-faced” for telling Turkey to open its borders while not moving “a finger to solve the Syria crisis” or to stop the Russian bombardments.
He also said the Syrian and Russian military operations were an attempt to drive out people who don’t support the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
By taking in the refugees that have fled the city of Aleppo, he said Turkey would be indirectly contributing to what he termed as an “ethnic cleansing.”
Davutoglu reiterated that Turkey planned to care for the new wave of refugees at camps on the Syrian side of the border France’s foreign minister has denounced the “terrifying brutality” of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government.