Syrian Kurd Salah ad-Din kisses his 7-month-old daughter Hiro Belo as they wait at the main bus station in Istanbul, Turkey, September 15, 2015. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
ANKARA (Reuters) - The strain of sheltering the world's largest refugee population is showing in Turkey, whose open door to those fleeing Syria and Iraq is shielding European nations from a migration crisis far worse than the one they are struggling with now.
As some European governments turn to baton-wielding police and barricades to stem the flow of migrants, Ankara has vowed to continue accommodating more than 2 million people from its war-torn southern neighbours and welcome any more who come.
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