Teaser for Merkel: The conditions of Turkey for the refugee deal

Turkey has formulated its conditions for a deal with the EU: Ankara wants as soon as possible visa freedom. With three billion euros it will be unsure done. Especially critical: Turkey wants the EU's support for a territorial extension on Syrian territory. Ankara speaks of a "refugee city", which is to be built. This refers to the recovery of art to which Turkey since Ottoman times lays claim.

 End the visa requirement: Turkey calls on the EU, the end of the visa obligation in the Schengen area for Turks to October. This is the condition that the country takes back refugees from the EU. If there is no visa liberalization, was "to scrap" the agreement, citing EUobserver a Turkish diplomat. An already agreed readmission agreements for refugees is to be placed in full force in June 2016th So the EU could deport failed asylum seekers in Turkey.
More Turkish politicians demanding freedom of travel for Turks in return for admitting refugees: The Turkish EU Minister Volkan Bozkir told the Turkish news channel NTV that the end of the visa requirements for Turks is closely linked with the promised Ankara withdrawal of refugees from Europe. "The EU must meet to October or November, the decision to lift the visa requirement," the EU ministers. "If the readmission agreement enters into force, but in October or November, the visa requirement is not canceled, we have after the readmission agreement the right to cancel the deal," citing him the Tagesschau .
The same accounts is loud Daily Sabah and the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu: Turkey had already taken solid steps to comply with EU requirements for visa-free travel agreement, Davutoğlu told a news conference on Thursday with European Commission President Donald Tusk in Ankara , About concrete quotas it had not yet been spoken.
 
Money for refugees: The EU Turkey pledged three billion euros, which it already is virtually certain that it will not stick to the sum. For the first projects this week were released 95 million euros. They should flow into the education of Syrian refugee children and the creation of an electronic food card system, reports the AFP. Commissioner Oettinger has already said, it would be much more is needed. The CDU politician speaks of 7 billion euros - per year. Erdogan himself had said that the mentioned by the EU totals be too low. Exactly how much Turkey is asking for is not yet known.
 
Territorial expansion: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has proposed the construction of a "refugee city" in northern Syria before the refugee summit in Brussels. The city could be built near the border with the help of the international community, Erdogan said Saturday.
About the plan to set up a refugee town in northern Syria he had already spoken with US President Barack Obama, Erdogan said, according to the Anatolia news agency. Negotiations have but "not yet borne fruit." A timeframe for the realization of the project not sketched Erdogan.
According to Der Spiegel, the EU promotes already the deportation of refugees from Turkey. The EU financiers there "Construction and equipment of centers for the reception and repatriation of third country nationals", quoted the magazine from a response of the Foreign Office to the Greens. Accordingly, people should be accommodated from third countries, which should be returned to their homes in the centers.
Indeed, Turkey's a very old territorial claim on Syrian territory. The claim defines the former head of the Israel Security Agency , Giora Eiland:
"About a year prior to said meeting with the Russians, I met a high-ranking Turkish official. This was at a time when relations between Jerusalem and Ankara were outstanding. At the meeting, the official spoke very openly about the world view of his country. We know that we can not get back the lands that belonged to the Ottoman Empire before 1917, he said. But does not make the mistake of thinking that we are the boundaries that after WW1 us by the victors - find assigned acceptable - especially France and the United Kingdom. Turkey will find a way to its natural borders to the south - between Mosul in Iraq and Homs in Syria - way back. This is our nature according endeavor and it is justified by the strong presence of Turkmens in the region. ''
Bilateral Agreements: With Greece Ankara has a bilateral agreement and a redemption already launched: This week around 300 refugees were returned to Turkey. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a visit to Athens to more readmissions of refugees who do not come from Syria. It already existed appropriate contracts with "Greece, Bulgaria and other countries". Tested am now the readmission of asylum-seekers from Morocco, Pakistan and Afghanistan, reports the AFP.
Source: http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2016/03/05/harte-nuss-fuer-merkel-die-bedingungen-der-tuerkei-fuer-den-fluechtlings-deal