{"id":58113,"date":"2016-04-19T09:20:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58113"},"modified":"2016-04-19T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:20:40","slug":"turkish-prime-minister-warns-eu-over-visa-free-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-prime-minister-warns-eu-over-visa-free-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish prime minister warns EU over visa-free travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu warned Monday that Turkey could not be expected to stick to its commitments if it was not granted visa-free travel in the EU by June.<\/h1>\n<p>Under a deal with the EU late last year, Turkey agreed to take back refugees from Greece while Turkish nationals were promised a relaxation of the visa regime in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists at Ankara\u2019s Esenboga Airport before his departure to Strasbourg, France, Davutoglu said he expected the visa arrangements to be finalized by June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is not carried out, no-one would expect Turkey to adhere its commitments,\u201d he said in reference to the deal, which also promised a financial package for Turkey to support refugees and fast-tracked EU accession.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement allows for the return of \u201cirregular migrants\u201d from Greece to Turkey in exchange for Syrian refugees to be relocated within the EU. The resettlement program began earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, EU Minister Volkan Bozkir said he expected visa-free travel to be in place by June.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 14)<\/span>\n<p><strong>Anadolu Agency<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu warned Monday that Turkey could not be expected to stick to its commitments if it was not granted visa-free travel in the EU by June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,101,194],"tags":[9270,19125,77422],"class_list":["post-58113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-politics","category-turkey-general","tag-ahmet-davutoglu","tag-strasbourg","tag-visa-free-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}