EU, Turkey Agree Deal to Stem Migrant Crisis

The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, called it a "new beginning" for the uneasy neighbours.

"We expect a major step towards changing the rules of the game when it comes to stemming the migration flow that is coming to the EU via Turkey", Tusk told a press conference with Davutoglu and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker.

(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo). British Prime Minister David Cameron arrives for an EU-Turkey summit at the EU Council building in Brussels on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015. At a high-profile summit in Brussels on Sunday, Euro... "So it's in everyone's interest, the refugees' interest, who must remain closer to their origin countries, Turkey's interest who will receive support from Europe, Europe's interest so as to not welcome refugees in greater numbers than today".

But the European Union also stressed that its agreement with Turkey did not seek to re-write the bloc's enlargement policy.

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According to the International Organization for Migration, nearly 900,000 people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia have entered Europe this year seeking sanctuary or jobs.

"We will also step up our assistance to Syrian refugees in Turkey through a new refugee facility of 3bn euros [$3.2bn]". The rest fend largely for themselves.

But German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in comments ahead of the meeting, said the result of Turkey's European Union membership negotiations were "open".

Merkel has forced the pace in securing a deal with Turkey that has left critics of Erdogan's human rights policies uneasy. "The negotiating framework and the relevant conclusions continue to apply, including its merit-based nature and the respect for European values, also on human rights", he said.

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Tusk put it straight to Davutoglu during the opening session of the summit.

The EU also said that it will re-open talks on whether to allow Turkey, which has a population of more than 70million, to join the EU.

"Nor is it about adding a burden on Turkey, a country that has demonstrated its solidarity to more than two million refugees and is itself experiencing the strains from dealing with the situation but it is about addressing these challenges together".

Davutoglu, who was standing in for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said the deal would "re-energise" Turkey's European Union accession process, which has made little headway since it started in 2005.

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The draft talks of "completing the visa liberalization process i.e. the lifting of visa requirements for Turkish citizens in the Schengen zone by October 2016 once the requirements of the Roadmap are met".

"The most important one is the responsibility and duty to protect our external borders".

"We are paying the price of the failure of the United Nations system not to solve the problem of the Syrian crisis at the earlier stages of the crisis", he said after the meeting, referring to his country and the EU. Donald Tusk, the president of the European council who chaired the full summit with Turkey, contradicted the mainly west European emphasis on seeing Ankara as the best hope of slowing the mass migration to Europe.

Two prominent Turkish journalists were jailed on Thursday, pending trial, in connection with a report alleging Turkey has shipped weapons to Syrian rebels, which the government had repeatedly denied.

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