YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 11, ARMENPRESS. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threats to open the borders with Europe to millions of refugees and migrants unless Brussels accedes to his demands is proof that he is exploiting the crisis and blackmailing Europe, “Armenpress” informs that German magazine Der Spiegel reported about the aforesaid.

On February 8 Greek website Euro2day published confidential EU documents that reveal threats Erdoğan made during a meeting with President of the European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European commission Jean-Claude Juncker in Antalya on November 16 during the G20 summit. "We can open the doors to Greece and Bulgaria anytime and we can put the refugees on buses," Erdoğan said when Juncker told him Turkey would get 3 billion euros from the EU over two years rather than 6 billion as the Turkish government was demanding, according to the minutes of the meeting. "Erdoğan says that the EU will be confronted with more than a dead boy on the shores of Turkey. There will be 10,000 or 15,000. How will you deal with that?" the minutes record the Turkish president as saying.