{"id":6503,"date":"2016-04-24T06:23:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T05:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2016-05-06T06:31:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T05:31:26","slug":"turkey-blackmails-europe-visa-free-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/04\/24\/turkey-blackmails-europe-visa-free-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Blackmails Europe on Visa-Free Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/04\/24\/turkey-blackmails-europe-visa-free-travel\/erdogan_juncker\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6504\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6504\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erdogan_juncker.jpg\" alt=\"erdogan_juncker\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erdogan_juncker.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erdogan_juncker-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Turkey has threatened to renege on a landmark deal to curb illegal immigration to the European Union.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Turkey Blackmails Europe on Visa-Free Travel<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/7914\/turkey-visa-free-travel\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | April 24, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has threatened to renege on a landmark deal to curb illegal migration to the European Union if the bloc fails to grant visa-free travel to Europe for Turkey\u2019s 78 million citizens by the end of June.<\/p>\n<p>If Ankara follows through on its threat, it would reopen the floodgates and allow potentially millions of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East to flow from Turkey into the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2016\/03\/18-eu-turkey-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\">EU-Turkey deal<\/a>, which entered into effect on March 20, Turkey agreed to take back migrants and refugees who illegally cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece. In exchange, the European Union agreed to resettle up to 72,000 Syrian refugees living in Turkey, and pledged up to 6 billion euros ($6.8 billion) in aid to Turkey during the next four years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/7914\/turkey-visa-free-travel\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has threatened to renege on a landmark deal to curb illegal immigration to the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[129,179,195,200],"class_list":["post-6503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam-in-europe","tag-european-union-2","tag-germany","tag-migration-crisis","tag-turkey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Turkey Blackmails Europe on Visa-Free Travel - 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