Markus Soder, finance minister of the German state of Bavaria noted that last week’s controversial agreement stops Syrian refugees from arriving in the EU, but grants visa-free travel to Turkish citizens, including the country’s estimated 15 million Kurds.

“The visa-free travel could lead to many, many Kurds fleeing the Turkish government and coming to Germany. We would bring a domestic conflict of Turkey into our own homeland,” he told German broadcaster ZDF.