The deal the EU-Turkey, it seems, is canceled
Igor Gashkov “Expert Online” 17 may 2016
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The agreement between the European Union and Turkey, in which Ankara agrees to accept illegal refugees who are deported from Europe, in exchange for the abolition of visas, is under threat. From a legal point of view, the stumbling block was the refusal of the banded States to implement 7 of the 72 conditions presented by the EU and, in particular, to liberalize the press law that allows you to censor information on the progress of police operations in the Kurdish areas. From the political point of view, the position of European leaders is affected by the opposition on the right, who fear a mass migration of Kurds, which the Turkish authorities have threatened to revoke the citizenship. Fear in Europe and the emergence of the actual Turkish refugees in the case that the economic situation in the country deteriorates.
According to French newspaper Le Monde, the European Parliament, the court, on which depends the fate of the Treaty with Turkey, preparing to move the ratification of the agreement from June for autumn this year In early may, European Parliament President Martin Schulz has tightened the tone against Ankara, accusing it of violating freedom of speech. Then the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sent in the resignation of the Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. Removal from office a perennial number two in Turkish politics – a bad sign for the agreement, the main advocate of which was considered Davutoglu.
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From the point of view of Erdogan, EU policy “hypocritical”, since, criticizing the Turkish anti-terrorism legislation, Western countries interfere with them to protect themselves. Martin Schulz, by contrast, believes that censorship laws imposed by Erdogan, are not related to defence against terrorism: “these provisions, as we understand it, did not directly affect the fight against this scourge and deal with the right to Express their opinion”.
In Europe has not gone unnoticed by decision of the Turkish court on may 6 sentenced the journalists Cana and Erdem Dündar Gul to imprisonment for a report on the supply of arms to Ankara to the Syrian Islamists. The rationale for the decision: the disclosure of state secrets.
On the background of cooling in bilateral relations Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan in early may, repeated the argument which had been used Ankara: “the rejection of the abolition of visas will mean the end of the agreement on the deportation of refugees.” Turkey considers itself as a country that “took most of the world’s migrants” (according to official figures, 2.7 million people). In Ankara are given to understand that they can and to stop impeding the movement of these people towards the EU.
European leaders are caught between a rock and a hard place. A large part of public opinion of the EU agree with the words of the Vice-President Evrokomisii Frans Timmermans who considers that the agreement with Turkey is justified, since “helped to make it so that people are no longer drowning in the Aegean sea”. The same opinion is shared by Chancellor Angela Merkel, who calls the agreement with Ankara “is necessary, despite the difficulties”. At the end of April the head of the German government supported Erdogan: visited camp of Syrian refugee Nizip in Turkey, the conditions of life in which, in General, approved. German opposition to Merkel’s arguments did not satisfy. On the one hand, it is widely known that it has selected camp – almost unique in Turkey in accordance with European requirements. On the other, even to visit the camp press was not allowed.
On the background of the efforts of Angela Merkel and the President of the European Council Donald Tusk, who called Turkey “the world’s best example of how to deal with migrants”, the number of opponents of the agreement with Turkey in Europe is growing. Among them several established politicians of France, in particular, the rising star of the party “the Republicans” (President Nicolas Sarkozy) Bruno Le Mayor. According to Le Mare, “to be part of the European Union — not the vocation of Turkey”. In view of the supporters of the agreement Le puts the Mayor and that the decision on the abolition of visas was adopted without the participation of national parliaments, and, therefore, violates the sovereignty of the countries-participants of the Union. Le the Mayor has published an online petition, calling on French citizens to oppose the abolition of visas for Turks.
“Esseevastaukseen that only a few Turks want to enter EU, what will happen in the future? If Turkey will be consumed with political or economic crisis, would our society have to accept the influx of immigrants from this country? The population of Turkey is 80 million people. And the decision on the abolition of visas for them is behind the scenes”, is outraged by Le Mayor. In France often think that to negotiate with Turkey in March, when we determined the contours of a future agreement, was not invited President Francois Hollande. The rough agreement discussed tete-a-tete the leaders of Germany and Turkey, putting the other EU member States before the fact.
Amid rising euroscepticism the agreement with Turkey may lead to new inner conflict in the EU. Reducing the flow of migrants to the price of a difficult compromise with Ankara, the countries of the old world will have to evaluate the consequences of this Treaty. The new solution is sensitive hurts the independence of each of the member States, and in a difficult psychological moment, when the cargo claims, the backlog of collegial bodies of the Union, is very high. Turkey is knocking at the European house despite the fact that its walls are crawling the cracks, and these cracks run the risk increase as you knock.
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