Greek ministers have threatened to send ‘ millions of immigrants and thousands of jihadis ’ to Western Europe if it is forced out of the euro . The country ’ s defence and foreign ministers made the warning as eurozone creditors urge them to speed up promised reforms to receive payments on a £172billion bailout . Without the funding , the country – which shares a border with Turkey - will go bust , forcing it out of the EU ’ s single currency . Scroll down for video . Greek ministers threatened to send 'thousands of jihadis ' to Western Europe as pressure mounts on them to speed up on promised reforms ahead of a bailout . Hundreds of extremists have left Europe via Turkey to join militants in Syria ( a radical is pictured in Raqqa , above ) Turkey has become the preferred transit route for European jihadists travelling to fight in the Middle East for extremist organisations such as Islamic State . Nikos Kotzias , the Greek foreign minister , told EU colleagues in a meeting last week that there would be far-reaching consequences in the event of a breakdown of order in his country . He said : ‘ There will be tens of millions of immigrants and thousands of jihadists , if you take out Greece . ‘ The Western Balkans is not stabilized . Then you have the Ukraine , Syria , Iraq , North Africa. ’ In a similar warning , Panos Kammenos , the Greek defence minister , said that if the eurozone allowed Greece to go bust it would give EU travel papers to illegal immigrants crossing its borders or the thousands held in detention centres . Nikos Kotzias , the Greek foreign minister , said there would be far-reaching consequences in the event of a breakdown . He said : ‘ If they deal a blow to Greece , then they should know the migrants will get papers to go to Berlin . ‘ If Europe leaves us in the crisis , we will flood it with migrants , and it will be even worse for Berlin if in that wave of millions of economic migrants there will be some jihadists of the Islamic State too. ’ Mr Kammenos , who is the leader of the Right-wing Independent Greeks party which is in coalition with Greece ’ s ruling Syriza government , said : ‘ If they strike us , we will strike them . We will give to migrants from everywhere the documents they need to travel in the Schengen area , so that the human wave could go straight to Berlin. ’ Most Greeks want the country to keep the euro , but two-thirds also continue to back the government ’ s tough stance to renegotiate the bailout package . Last month , Greece and its Eurozone creditors struck a deal to extend the Greek bailout to June . Alexis Tsipras , the Greek prime minister and leader of the Syriza movement , had to bow to German-led pressure to stick to the broad terms of its £176bn bailout in order to obtain the four month extension . The country ’ s creditors in the 19-country eurozone endorsed Greece ’ s request for the extension after the European Commission , European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund — the main institutions handling Greece ’ s loans — provisionally backed a list of reforms that Athens proposed .
Greeks threatened to send ‘ millions of immigrants ' to Western Europe . Comes as creditors urge them to speed up reform for the bailout . Without the £172billion sum the country will be forced out of eurozone . If that happens , ministers threatened pushing jihadis towards Britain .