Orban says would have to 'use force' if Turkey 'opens gates' to refugees
Hungary would "use force" at its southern border with Serbia to protect the European Union's frontier if Turkey follows through on its threat to open the gates to Europe to refugees, Hungary's Viktor Orban said, according to Euronews report.
The source reminds that the Hungarian prime minister put up a fence on the country's border with Serbia to block the Balkan route of migration, where hundreds of thousands of people marched through from the Middle East to western Europe at the peak of the crisis in 2015.
"The next weeks will decide what Turkey does with these people," Orban told private broadcaster HirTV in an interview late on Wednesday. "It can steer them in two directions: take them back to Syria or set them off towards Europe.
"If Turkey chooses the latter, these people will arrive at Hungary's southern border in huge masses," Orban said, adding that the EU should provide more funds to Turkey to help rebuild Syrian towns.