Foreign Ministry: Turkey is ready to transfer 25,000 refugees to the EU

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has informed that the country is ready to send 25,000 Syrian refugees to the EU, whose status is in no doubt, a senior representative of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced at a briefing in Ankara.

"In accordance with its own criteria the EU has already approved a quota of 72,000 migrants who will be changed one on one. The EU will send a migrant to Turkey and simultaneously it will receive one,'' Tass cites him as saying.