Turkey Snarls EU Refugee-Crisis Response With Sudden Offer
- Davutoglu upends EU summit with new proposal to resolve crisis
- `Difficult negotiations' lie ahead, Germany's Merkel says
Will the EU Agree to Turkey's Demands?
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Turkey snarled the European Union’s response to the refugee crisis, insisting on fresh concessions as the price for housing more asylum seekers on its soil instead of waving them through to the west.
The last-minute demands made just before an EU-Turkey summit in Brussels on Monday showed Turkey’s leverage over the 28-nation bloc as it strives to dissuade thousands of Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and others from making the desperate trek to Europe.