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EU says ready to help Turkey in steps to secure visa-free travel

EU says ready to help Turkey in steps to secure visa-free travel
September 1, 2016
ANKARA – The European Union's migration commissioner said on Thursday that Turkey had made progress in a deal to secure visa-free travel for Turkish citizens in the EU but that Ankara still had to meet some benchmarks before implementation. Speaking at a news conference in Ankara, EU commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said the EU was ready to help Turkey fulfil the last details of the deal to secure visa liberalisation "very soon," without giving a precise timeline. Ankara and Brussels reached a deal this year in which Turkey would control the flow of migrants to Europe and gain visa-free travel to the European Union for its citizens in return. –Reuters