Turkey open to hosting refugees during assault on rebels in Syria's Idlib

Turkey has reached its capacity in taking refugees, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, signaling Ankara's reluctance to admit more migrants in case of an influx from Syria's Idlib.

The three presidents of the main outside players - Turkey, Russia, and Iran - in Syria's long war were meeting to discuss the fate of Idlib as rival factions there prepared for what could be the conflict's last great battle.

In his remarks in Tehran, which were broadcast live on Turkish television, Erdogan said any attack on Syria's Idlib would result in a disaster and millions of civilians there would be moving towards the Turkish border.

Turkey already hosts 3.5 million Syrian refugees.