EU-Turkey relations

The European Commission on Tuesday said it stood ready to provide Hungary with emergency EU facilities as Budapest struggles to cope with the record numbers of migrants streaming across its borders.

“We are ready to create a hotspot in Hungary, because this country needs our support,” said Natasha Bertaud, a spokeswoman for the Cmmission.

The European Commission has suggested member states to open a new chapter in Turkey's stalled EU membership talks, a senior diplomatic source told Anadolu Agency on June 12.

With their votes, the Turkish people sent a strong message to President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in Sunday?s free - if not really fair - election. 

In Turkey?s long and unending journey to full membership in the European Union, its entrance to the Customs Union in 1996 has an important and strategic place. Turkey has been and is still the only candidate that signed the Customs Union deal with the EU, even much before it could begin full membership negotiations. 

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Europe should come up with a common asylum and migration policy that is humane and realistic, Martin Schulz warned EU leaders on Thursday, the same day as an extraordinary EU summit to deal with the situation.

Schulz spoke before the summit, roughly a week after hundreds of people died trying to cross the Mediterranean.

The World Health Organization will soon open an office in Turkey after a regulation from the cabinet to that effect was published in the Official Gazette on Feb. 11.

There has been an office of the WHO Country Representative for Turkey in Ankara, but a country office will now be opened following an agreement between the Turkish government and the WHO Regional Office for Europe.

Turkey may freeze its customs union deal with the EU if the planned trade deal between the US and EU does not cover all Customs Union members, including Turkey, says the European Union Minister Turkey is planning to suspend its Customs Union deal with the EU if the planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) does not include an article emphasizing the deal to be applicable fo