Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan opened the Turkish border to its neighbor, Greece, an EU country. He said Turkey couldn’t handle more than a million Syrian refugees fleeing the escalating violence in Idlib. Greece has responded with military force. The Greek government also said won’t won’t be accepting new asylum applications for a month. Host Marco Werman speaks with Devon Cone of Refugees International. She was in recently in Greece for a field report.
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