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Monday, March 9, 2020

Turkey's Erdoğan holds talks with EU leaders over border opening

Turkish leader will meet presidents of European commission and council Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is travelling to Brussels for emergency talks, as the EU considers taking in 1,500 child refugees stuck in increasingly dangerous and overcrowded camps in Greece. The presidents of the European commission and council, Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, will meet Erdoğan on Monday, just over a week after he opened Turkey’s frontiers to thousands of people seeking to pass into the EU. Related: 'Just run': on the Turkey-Greece border as refugees try to break through Continue reading...


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