Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said that Turkey has stood by the Syrian people since the start of the crisis and will continue to do so. 

"As Turkey, since the first days of the crisis, we did not abandon our Syrian brothers. We opened our doors to them, and we will continue to open them," Erdogan told a meeting with foreign students in Istanbul. 

"For six years our [Syrian] brothers were being brutally murdered by an illegitimate regime," Erdogan said. "Until today, about 600,000 innocent people have been killed with barrel bombs, ballistic missiles, torture and chemical weapons," he added. 
Erdogan also accused ISIS and other militant groups of committing 'ethnic cleansing and genocide' in Syria. "All of this happened and is happening before the eyes of the world," he said. 

The Turkish president said that those who stood idly to the murder of people in Rwanda in 1994 are doing the same thing today in Syria, Libya and Yemen.

Source: QNA