Orban: Hungarian national interest determines stance on Syria

On the topic of Turkey's military incursion into northern Syria, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Hungary must view the matter with Hungary's national interests in mind. "This is not a conflict that's distant from and irrelevant to Hungary where we can choose sides based on sympathy," he argued. More than three million migrants and refugees have fled from Syria into Turkey, the prime minister said, adding that Turkey would have to decide what to do with them over the coming weeks. Either the Turkish authorities could decide to return them to Syria or to set them off toward Europe, Orban said. "If Turkey chooses the latter option then these people will arrive at Hungary's southern border in huge numbers." "And if Turkey adds hundreds of thousands more to this wave, we'll have to secure the protection of the Hungarian-Serbian section of the border by force," he said.