A flurry of EU diplomatic visits to Ankara has failed to bend Turkey's demand on visa waivers.
At a joint press conference with European Parliament chief Martin Schulz in Ankara on Thursday (1 September), Turkey's prime minister Binali Yildirim said the country would not budge on its anti-terrorism laws.
"We have made it clear to the EU that it's not possible to make amendments to the terror law in the current situation," he said.
Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan had ...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.