German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a visit to key ally Turkey on Sunday, meeting with both President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu.
She came with Europe’s refugee crisis and Syria top of the list of things to discuss, and to get enhanced Turkish co-operation she offered to help revive Turkey’s stalled EU membership talks, and fast-track Turkey into the border-free Schengen zone.
For his part Davutoglu warned the “Syrian offensive”:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/21636-thousands-of-iranian-soldiers-arrive-in-syria-to-attack-aleppo on Aleppo could create another spike in “refugees”:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/18/battle-aleppo-refugee-exodus-says-turkish-pm-merkel-germany-membership-eu.
“Of course we expect things in return. There is an agreement on migrants between Turkey and the European Union and this holds true for third countries as well but of course visa liberalisation and readmission agreements should also g
