Erdogan: Turkey deserves visa-free travel to EU

The European Union is not doing Turkey a favor by potentially granting Turkish citizens visa-free travel to EU member countries, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during an official trip to Croatia.

“Nobody has the right to act as if they are doing Turkey a favor. The date of the introduction of visa-free travel was already announced in Ankara back when I was the prime minister - on October 2016. Now I don’t understand how it can be presented as a big gain to bring it forward by four months,” Hurriyet cited Erdogan as saying.

“I don’t understand asking Turkey for project plans for the assistance. Merkel came to Nizip [the refugee camp in the southern province of Gaziantep] and saw what we have done. What more projects do you want from us? No one should try to deceive us by talking about things like projects” he added.