Turkey Expects to Agree Visa-Free Travel With Europe in 2016

[Robertt S]

ANKARA (Sputnik) – Turkey applied to join the 28-nation European Union in 1987. Negotiations on its accession to the bloc began in 2005. Twenty two EU member states and four non-EU European countries participate in the border-free Schengen Area.EU leaders are meeting with Turkish officials for talks on the migrant crisis. Ankara will be asked to bolster border controls to curb refugee travel to Europe.
The Turkish government estimates that the country currently hosts about 2.5 million refugees, many of them from Syria. It is expected to ask for concessions from Brussels for retaining additional Syrian asylum seekers.
A diplomatic source in Brussels confirmed to RIA Novosti on Tuesday that Ankara planned to use the option of creating new refugee camps on its territory as a bargaining chip to press Europe to open its borders to Turkish travelers.
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Not exactly sure this would be in the best interest of Europe at this time given the migrant crisis and the problems along the Turkish borders that ISIS is causing.

[Willy The Londoner]

It is a case of wait and see.

The Schengen agreement could well disappear if the UK leaves the EU. (The vote is 50-50 at the moment for the UK to leave).  Country after country within it are closing borders.  Personally I would like the EU to revert to what is was a ECONOMIC ZONE, that is what most people voted for in the seventies, including me.

When you see the destruction in Syria you can understand the people wanting to get out from there but the numbers have been bolstered by economic migrants from other countries joining the throngs of those desperate people trying to escape a war torn country.

Ten of thousands are trapped in Greece where the borders adjoining it have been closed. So much for much for the Schengen agreement.

The EU does not have a clear line of what to do. 

The UK Gov has just announced the net number of immigrants entering the UK in 2015 was 340,000.

Willy