Germany’s leader, Angela Merkel, and a group of EU officials are
currently in Turkey, where they just visited a refugee camp. Merkel and the EU
officials praise the camp by its good standards, saying it is “an example for the whole world on how we should
treat refugees”.
Turkey is the country in the world that has the
highest registered numbers of refugees, 2.7 million people. Its geographic
location between Europe and Syria results in a massive stream of people who
flee the conflicts in the Middle East.
As nobody should have missed, a great deal of
the refugees who have fled to Turkey continued into Europe, causing turmoil
among European countries. As a result of this, EU recently signed an agreement
with Turkey, which essentially says that Turkey helps EU in returning refugees
in return for group of incentives, which are “from billions in refugee aid to
progress on visa-free access to the bloc for Turkish citizens” (Al Jazeera).
Therefore, because of the importance for EU to
maintain its deal with Turkey, field trips like the one in this article are
valued, and viewed as means to build friendly relations between each other.
Victor
Krueeger
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/merkel-turkey-refugee-camp160423101251609.html
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