Erdogan’s Refusal to Amend Anti-Terror Law Sends EU Migrant Deal Into Chaos…(Order Out Of Chaos!!)
SputnikNews.com
11.05.2016
European Parliament President Martin Schulz is in talks Wednesday (May 11) with Volkan Bozkır, Turkish Minister of European Union Affairs as more cracks appeared in the EU-Turkey migrant deal, with Turkey’s anti-terror laws proving a major sticking point.
Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu brokered the deal with the EU to allows for “irregular migrants” — those not meeting the criteria for asylum in the EU — to be returned to Turkey, in exchange one-for-one for Syrian refugees to be relocated from Turkey to EU member states.
In return, Turkish citizens would be allowed visa-free travel within the Schengen area and Turkey’s accession into the EU would be accelerated. Davutoglu — who has since been sacked by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — demanded visa-free access be agreed by the end of June.
Part of the deal is that Turkey passes legislation to meet 72 demands from the EU, covering various areas, including a loosening of its controversial anti-terror law that has been used to target journalists and academics, a condition which Erdogan has refused to commit to, according to German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.
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