Turkey refuses to change anti-terrorist strategy to meet EU demands

Turkey does not plan altering its counterterrorism strategy as required to meet conditions set by the European Union under the Turkey-EU deal on a visa-free regime, Turkish Minister of European Union Affairs Omer Celik said Thursday, Sputnik reports.

"The European Union wants us to make changes to our counter-terrorism strategy. We are physically fighting a terrorist organization, which cannot be defeated by all of the world's countries, and we will not change our anti-terrorist strategy. There needs to be a joint plan of action directed toward countering terrorism," Celik said as broadcast by the NTV news channel.