On the 9th September the first high-level political meeting since the 15 July coup between EU and Turkey took place in Ankara. Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister for EU Affairs Ömer Çelik and Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security, and Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, from the side of EU, discussed Turkey’s accession negotiations, Turkey-EU cooperation in the fields of energy, economy and trade, migration crisis and visa liberalization process. EU representatives pointed out that new chapters of accession, concerning justice, rights, freedom and security areas, should be opened. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu insisted that a ‘’concrete road map’’ should be created for visa liberalization in order to ensure a consensus is reached on the deal to stop migrants.
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