Turkey cannot bail out the EU by taking in Afghans who worked for Western countries in Afghanistan as the Taliban take power there, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.
"We have received a request to welcome local employees of a EU mission in Afghanistan," a government statement quoted Erdogan as saying to European Council President Charles Michel in a telephonic call.
"The member states do not open their doors even to a tiny portion of the people who served them and who are in difficulty," the statement quoted him as saying.
