Turkey has threatened to scrap its agreement with the EU to stem the flow of migrants into the bloc from October unless it delivers visa-free travel for Turks, increasing the risk of a "human bomb" in Europe. “But all that is dependent on the cancellation of the visa requirement for our citizens, which is also an item in the agreement of March 18,” Cavusoglu said in a release in advance of comments to be published in the newspaper’s Monday edition. Tensions have been rising between Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan and the EU; recently, European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said he did not see the EU granting Turks visa-free travel this year due to Turkey's crackdown after the failed military coup last month and the possible re-introduction of the death penalty. The Turkish government is also pushing ahead on plans to build two new nuclear power plants at Akkuyu near Istanbul, which would be built by state-owned energy giant KEPCO.
Turkey has threatened to scrap its agreement with the EU to stem the flow of migrants into the bloc from October unless it delivers visa-free travel for Turks, increasing the risk of a "human bomb" in Europe. Tensions have been rising between Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan and the EU; recently, European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said he did not see the EU granting Turks visa-free travel this year due to Turkey's crackdown after the failed military coup last month and the possible re-introduction of the death penalty. The Turkish government is also pushing ahead on plans to build two new nuclear power plants at Akkuyu near Istanbul, which would be built by state-owned energy giant KEPCO.