In an interview with Anadolu Agency in Brussels, Laura Batalla said submitting Turkey’s working plan documents for Turkish citizens to travel to Schengen countries visa-free would be a positive step.<\/p>\n
On Feb. 7, Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik said Ankara had finalized these draft documents for submission to the bloc.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be important for restarting the dialogue process on visa liberalization and boosting relations between Ankara and Brussels,\u201d Batalla added.<\/p>\n
She highlighted that the leaders\u2019 meeting on March 26 would be critical for re-establishing mutual trust and finding solutions to problems, she said while referring to the upcoming Turkey-EU summit scheduled to be held in Bulgaria\u2019s Varna city.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt should be noted that Turkey is a part of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n
It should not be expected to get results immediately about visa liberalization in Varna summit, Economic Development foundation General Secretary Cigdem Nas told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cTurkey is a part of Europe,\u201d Nas said, adding Turkey must avoid the risk of remaining out of the bloc by closely following discussions and plans for the future of the post-Brexit EU.<\/p>\n
Under a EU-Turkey readmission agreement signed in March 2016, Ankara is supposed to readmit all irregular asylum-seekers who reach Greek islands from Turkey.<\/p>\n
Visa liberation for Turkish citizens traveling to Schengen zone countries is one of the key EU pledges made under the deal.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 12)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Visa liberalization for Turkey would remove major psychological barrier in the country\u2019s ties with the EU, according to the secretary general of the European Parliament\u2019s Turkey Forum Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,23464,117],"tags":[77459,16574,77182,13349],"class_list":["post-60018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-number-10","category-travel","tag-brexit","tag-greek-islands","tag-turkey","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60018","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=60018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}