[Turkish President Erdogan makes a speech during his meeting with mukhtars at the Presidential Palace in Ankara]Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the European Union has failed to fulfil its pledge to provide 3 billion euros of aid for migrants, a criticism that the EU said was "not correct and not helpful". More than a million migrants entered the EU last year by taking boats from Turkey to Greece. The numbers taking that route have tumbled since Turkey agreed to prevent people from setting sail from its shores in return for EU countries approving a fund of 3 billion euros this year to help Turkey improve living conditions for some 3 million Syrian migrants on its territory.
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