Turkey’s EU Minister on Friday said he was not hopeful about the prospect of realising a deal with the European Union on granting Turks visa-free access to most of the bloc.
“At this stage I would not say we are very hopeful,” EU Affairs Minister Volkan Bozkir told Turkish reporters in televised comments in Brussels following talks with EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn. The promise of visa-free travel is a key pillar of the landmark March accord for Turkey to stem the flow of migrants to the EU, but the whole deal appears now at risk of unravelling.