In an interview with Halk Tv broadcast today, Syria's president Bashar al-Assad said Turkey is funneling Islamist and other fighters from more than 80 countries into Syria and will ultimately pay a heavy price for its association with “terrorists”.

A strong-worded Assad went on to say that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government “are responsible for the blood of tens of thousands of Syrians” and added: “These terrorists enter Syria from neighboring countries, primarily Turkey.”

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based monitoring group, Syria’s two-and-a-half year uprising has left more than 115,000 people dead.

President Assad also said he’s fighting Islamist fanatics. Tens of thousands of “terrorists” are fighting in Syria ha said adding that “The main problem is new terrorists infiltrate through borders, as much as we kill them”.