Turkey calls on nations to be more sensitive to the refugee crisis |Turkey |crisis |Erdogan
04.09.2015 - 16:57
The Turkish president has called on developed nations to be more sensitive to the refugee crisis. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was speaking after a photograph of a dead three-year-old boy whose body had washed up on a Turkish beach sparked outrage.
“I definitely don’t consider the way some European countries classify refugees and admit them according to their qualifications as humane. They are being classified one by one,” said Erdogan. “How can you do that? They are not agricultural products. They are human beings. We should receive them all as human beings without distinguishing.”
He added: “What is drowned in the Mediterranean is our humanity.”