Turkey refuses to change anti-terrorism legislation

Turkey has fulfilled the required 72 criteria to meet a visa deal with the European Union, the Turkish Minister for EU Affairs Volkan Bozkir said today in Strasbourg, TRT TV channel reports.

He noted that it is impossible to change the laws on the fight against terrorism.

"We are fighting against terrorism. There are terrorist attacks and bombings in the south-east of the country. Therefore, we cannot now make any changes to the law on the fight against terrorism and we will not do that," TASS cited him as saying.