Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested building a ‘new city’ on the Syrian soil to provide shelter to millions of the Arab country’s 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.”

By Press TV