On February 28, Turkey announced the opening of the borders it shares with the European Union. Erdogan thus suspends an agreement signed in 2016, which promised to stem arrivals in the EU in return for financial support.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan puts pressure on the European Union, and demands that it intervene in Syria, while violence is intensifying in the region.
The Idlib province of Syria has experienced a peak of tension since December. The forces of Bashar Al-Assad's regime, helped by their Russian ally Vladimir Putin, are carrying out an offensive against the rebels, helped by Erdogan's Turkey.
The offensive forced more than 948,000 people to flee to northwestern Syria, near the Turkish border. Encouraged by Turkish President Erdogan, thousands of Syrian refugees are trying to reach Europe by crossing Turkey.
The UN estimates that nearly one million people, more than half of them children, have been displaced in northwestern Syria since early December.
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