A tentative plan by UK Foreign Minister to ship asylum seekers to Türkiye has been shot down by the Ankara authorities within hours of it being floated.

That would observe the deal struck within the spring with Rwanda, which has taken over £100mn from the British authorities in return for taking deported refugees who cross the English Channel in small boats.
But later on Saturday Türkiye hit back at the proposal, warning that the country would not become a “refugee camp or border guard” for any other nation. Türkiye, a nation of 85mn people, already has the largest refugee population in the world, including 3.7mn people who have fled the civil war in neighboring Syria.
Türkiye said it will not become a refugee camp or border guard for any other country, nor will it in any way assume the international obligations of a third country.