Ahmet Davutoglu said that if the proposed new liberal travel regime failed to materialise, “no one would expect Turkey to adhere to its commitments”.
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It promised Turkey financial rewards and visa liberalisation and revived European Union accession talks in exchange for Ankara taking back migrants who reach Greek islands from its shores, and ensuring fewer embark on the journey across the Aegean Sea. More men than women were seeking asylum, Eurostat said. I have never observed that Germany be more demanding toward countries vis-a-vis Greece than other countries. “The fact is that Turkey doesn’t meet them at the moment”, Ferber said in a statement.
“It is in the interests of both Europe and Turkey to fight the illegal trafficking of people because it is bad for the people that are in the hands of traffickers, because it is a business that is growing [with] criminals gaining cash and very often investing it in radicalization and terrorism”, Georgieva said.
“It seems highly likely that Turkey has returned several thousand refugees to Syria in the last seven to nine weeks”, John Dalhuisen, Amnesty’s director for Europe and Central Asia said at the time. “We do get the impression that we are selling out a little bit here”, she said adding that the Turkish government was engaging in a “blackmail exercise”.
Speaking at the border province Gaziantep in the southeast of Turkey, Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan, who is in charge of refugee and migrant matters in the government, lamented that Turkey was left alone in dealing with refugees. Diplomatic tussles loom over Turkey’s demands for visa-free European Union travel for Turkish citizens.
Aside from Turkey’s horrendous treatment of residents, Ankara has recently made major steps toward dismantling its free press.
Hundreds drown The update on the EU-Turkey plan was released as the UN’s refugee agency confirmed reports earlier this week that up to 500 people may have died after a migrant boat sunk in the Mediterranean. It also provides for including Turkish citizens in the visa-free Schengen zone.
The German chancellor also pointed out that the Europe must assist Turkey in the implementation of projects “right on the border area between Turkey and Syria”, while clarifying how exactly the European Union must “share the burden”.
“If there is no visa liberalization, then it is not only Turkey that will lose but everyone”. The nation has taken in more than 2.7 million Syrians, but only around 10 percent live in refugee camps. In the other direction, 103 Syrians have been delivered from Turkey to Europe.
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The refugee and migrant issues are expected to be dealt with during the World Humanitarian summit that will be hosted by Turkey in Istanbul on May 23-24. “When they think about the future of their children, they see that the opportunities they have in Turkey are relatively limited”.
