ANKARA 

Turkey blasted Greece’s prime minister Friday after he sent a letter to European leaders urging a reduction in financial support to Ankara amid a refugee crisis. 

Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement that Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent letters to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron that proposed giving financial support to Turkey in direct proportion to a reduction of refugees to Europe.

“Greece’s inhuman and embarrassing treatment of the refugees who came to its doorstep before the eyes of the whole world is still in memory,” according to the statement.

The ministry described

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