Preliminary EU agreement on the abolition of visas for Turkey, reports BBC News

The European Commission agreed to grant Turkish citizens the right to enter the Schengen area without a visa, reports BBC News. While sources in the EC say that she will approve of the proposal to introduce visa-free regime with Turkey, but Ankara says that previously exhibited Ankara conditions will not be changed.

In the agreement concluded between the EU and Turkey, saying that Ankara needs to perform 4 may 72 conditions to ensure that visas were cancelled by the end of June. According to diplomats, Turkey fulfilled these conditions only half.

• Generally, the EU requires that countries applying for a visa-free entry to Europe for its citizens, respect for the principles of freedom of speech, the independence of the courts and changes in the anti-terrorist legislation in order to effectively protect the rights of minorities.

At the moment, as noted, Turkey these requirements are unlikely to correspond to Ankara regularly suppresses opposition, using an autocratic rather than democratic methods. The EU voters, there is growing pressure on the European Commission and the governments to let the immigration crisis.

According to the agreement between Turkey and the EU, on 20 March, the migrants arriving to Europe from Turkey will be sent back if not ask for political asylum or if they will be denied such refuge. In exchange for every citizen of Syria, returned to Turkey, EU agree to accept a single Syrian refugee living in Turkey.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said that his country has fulfilled all its obligations under this agreement, called the vital issue of visa-free regime with the Schengen countries.

The migration crisis in the European Union broke out in 2015. Refugees cross the Aegean sea in search of asylum in the European Union. Over the past year came to Europe more than a million people, 850 thousand of them took the route via Turkey to Greece.
 [rushincrash.com]
3/5/16
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