The EU-Turkey: Liar’s poker

The EU-Turkey: Liar’s poker

CENGİZ AKTAR

Reports from irresponsible local media outlets want readers to believe that Turkish-EU relations have entered a new era. Turks will be able to travel to Europe without visas starting in October 2016 and it seems as though Turkey will soon become a full EU member. Let me elaborate on what did and did not happen in Brussels on Sunday afternoon.

- As if to refute Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's high-sounding “historic deal” remarks, the Belgian and Dutch prime ministers declared that the bargain-hunting was only about refugees. Not to mention European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's insinuations that visa exemption and membership negotiations will be subject to requirements that Turkey will have extreme difficulties fulfilling. 

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