25 April,2017 05:22 AM IST | | Agencies
Turkey on Monday claimed that it has received only 790 million euros ($857 million) of a 3 billion euro package promised by the European Union under a deal to limit the flow of migrants from Turkey into the bloc, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said
A displaced Syrian girl at the al-Mabrouka camp in the village of Ras al-Ain on the Syria-Turkey border. Pic/AFP
Ankara: Turkey on Monday claimed that it has received only 790 million euros ($857 million) of a 3 billion euro package promised by the European Union under a deal to limit the flow of migrants from Turkey into the bloc, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said.
Kalin told a news conference that relations between Ankara and Brussels, which were strained by disputes during this month's referendum campaign on presidential powers, could be put back on track if the European Union implemented the terms of the migrant deal.
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