The European Union (EU) top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, said yesterday that Turkey would only get visa-free travel to the bloc once it has met all the required criteria, the Yahoo News website reports today (April 27, 2016).
Turkey has demanded its citizens be allowed to enter the European Union's passport-free Schengen zone without visas by June, in exchange for it taking back migrants rejected by Greece.
But the EU insists that Turkey must meet 72 conditions -- of which it is believed to have fulfilled about half -- before being allowed visa-free travel.
"On free travel [for Turkey], this will be done only once all the criteria are respected, as for all countries with which we negotiate free travel for a limited period," EU foreign policy chief Mogherini emphasized. She added,... "a very severe verification must be carried out to apply this measure."
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