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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Merkel arrives in southeast Turkey to ease tensions of migrant deal

[German Chancellor Merkel, EU Council President Tusk and Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu receive flowers during a welcoming ceremony at Nizip refugee camp near Gaziantep]By Ercan Gurses and Andreas Rinke GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in a Turkish border province on Saturday to meet Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as she works to ease tensions in the deal to tackle the migrant crisis. Prior to its enforcement almost three weeks ago, Merkel lobbied European leaders to back the deal to return thousands of migrants from the Greek islands to Turkey. The agreement, coupled with border closures in Europe that meant smugglers could not secure passage to northern European states, initially slowed the numbers of new arrivals to Greece sharply.


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