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The green light for a visa-free regime with Turkey is expected to be part of the concessions the EU is ready to make to settle the migrant crisis. In exchange for removing visa requirements, Ankara will help Brussels to stem the refugee influx to EU countries as well as accept a large number of refugees.
In turn, the EU has urged Turkey to carry out liberalization reforms of its domestic politics, including securing minorities' rights and freedom of speech.
"The European Union must not settle for just reminding the Turkish authorities of the principles of media freedom. It must exercise all of its potential leverage. There can be no question of resuming EU accession talks while Ankara visibly tramples on basic European values," Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said.
If Brussels fails to approve visa liberalization for Turkey Ankara may abandon some of its obligation and thus deepen the migrant crisis.
Comment: So basically this is extortion.
"These are desperate times for the EU. The European Commission and most EU governments are under huge public pressure to ease the migrant crisis," Adler added.
Granting Turkey free visa travel within the European Union will have "serious ramifications" for the security of Europe, UK member of the European Parliament (MEP) Stephen Woolfe told Sputnik Tuesday.
"The EU's own security organization, Frontex, has already said the Schengen zone and the inability to check those traveling through Europe, poses a security risk to Europe and the UK. Turkey, as an EU member state, would be the gateway from the Middle East into Europe with it bordering Syria, Iran and Iraq, countries which have a strong ISIS [Daesh] presence," Woolfe explained.
In mid-March, the European Union and Ankara agreed on a deal under which Turkey pledged to take back all undocumented migrants who arrived in the European Union through its territory in exchange for Syrian refugees held in Turkey, on a one-for-one basis. In return, the 28-member bloc pledged to accelerate the Turkish EU accession bid and introduce a visa-free regime between Turkey and Europe.
Plus which country IS the main conduit and trainer of ISIS??? Interesting times. Europe is toast!
Though I have to say that ISIS and any proxy false flag terrorist has never had a problem entering any part of Europe (or leaving for that matter as mercenaries to the highest paid war for 'democracy'.
It seems it is just the genuine refugees who are banned from Europe and asylum. Especially after many EU countries were 100% complicit in invading sovereign countries, committing genocide and causing the refugees to flee for their lives - and they continue their bombing daily. The refugees would be living happy normal lives in their own nations had the EU countries not terrorized innocent humans in the first place.
EU and Turkey are the real terrorists and now they are sending all refugees except Syrian ones (who would rather go back to a peaceful Syria anyway) into a country where human rights are atrocious. A country that shoots fleeing Syrians trying to cross the border into Turkey from Syria to escape the brainwashed money hungry mercenaries that Turkey sends across fully laden with armaments to blast the Syrian citizens to kingdom come!
I hope the EU leaders - and all the others fully involved - find themselves in a similar catch-22 inhumane situation very shortly!!