ANKARA: Turkey fears another two to three million Syrian refugees could cross its borders if the region of Syria’s second city of Aleppo is overrun either by extremists or regime forces, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday.

Cavusoglu said supporting the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) was the only option for the international community against what Ankara sees as the twin threat of Islamic State and the regime of President Bashar Assad.

“The main force fighting both IS and the Syrian regime today is the Free Syrian Army,” he said, using another term for the Islamic State group.

“But it has failed to achieve the desired outcome because it is fighting against both groups,” he said. Cavusoglu said there was little difference between IS militants and the Assad regime.

“Both of them are killing people brutally and don’t refrain from using any kinds of weapons at their disposal. Both force people to flee their land.”