Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s planned visit comes amid heightened tensions between Turkey and the European Union following Turkey's decision last week to open its border to Greece
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will travel to Brussels on Monday for a one-day working visit, his office said in a statement Saturday,The president's planned visit comes amid heightened tensions between Ankara and Brussels following Turkey's decision last week to open its border to Greece, prompting violent clashes between migrants and security forces in the region.
A spokesperson for European Council President Charles Michel, whom Erdogan is expected to meet in Brussels, said he could not yet confirm the meeting would take place. Erdoğan said last week his country could no longer take in more refugees and demanded the EU take responsibility for the large number of people fleeing war in Syria. The Turkish president also called for a revision of the EU-Turkey migration deal signed in 2016, saying Ankara needed more money from Brussels to deal with the large number of arrivals.
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