Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested building a new city on the Syrian soil to provide shelter to millions of the Arab countrys nationals fleeing the violence in their homeland.
In a late Friday speech, Erdogan said he had discussed with US President Barack Obama the idea of constructing a 4,500-square-kilometer city in northern Syria near the Turkish border, the Turkish Anadolu news agency reported.
I am going to tell you something. What is the formula? We found a city in the north of Syria, the Turkish leader said, adding that Ankara and Washington had even set the coordinates, but it has not yet come to fruition.