The Schengen Agreement
Travel without restrictions
For her in coping with the refugee crisis in Turkey, calls for the EU to end visa requirements for their citizens travelling in the Schengen area. What would this mean and where do the risks lie?
Account statements, salary statements, tax bills, rental agreement, land register extracts, health insurance, return travel vouchers: Who wishes to enter the Schengen area and needs a visa, it can be like that his private life very carefully.
Since 1980, these and other requirements also apply to Turkish citizens. As humiliating, annoying and very costly for the applicant to describe the procedure, at which some people was a – literally – up on the underwear search. The news of the agreement between the EU and Ankara will be pleased many Turks so much. For now, you may hope to be allowed from the end of June without a Visa in each of the 26 Schengen countries to enter.
For the government in Ankara is one of the most important political goals. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu recently said in Parliament: “This is a 50, 60-year-old dream for our citizens.”
Visa-free: 90 days of stay in the Schengen area
There are many indications that the bureaucratic obstacles will be removed. More than 90 percent of the Turks, who put in a request at the German consulates in Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir, to get the visa approved. The editing, however, binds alone in the Istanbul Consulate-General 30.
Proponents of the visa-free regime applies, therefore, only as a logical step. Anyway, it would go only a short-term visa. It would stop the Turks, and then to a maximum of 90 days in any 180-day period in the Schengen area.
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The fears that the Turks could force on to the labour market of the EU or the burden for the social systems, are therefore unfounded. Also, Gökay Sofuoglu, Federal Chairman of the Turkish community in Germany confirmed. “Germany has no attraction to, Turkey currently offers sufficient economic prospects,” said Sofuoglu.
The fight against corruption for visa freedom
In the draft of the Brussels summit Declaration, the lifting of the visa obligation is maintained as the destination until “no later than the end of June 2016”. But for that, Turkey must meet 72 conditions. Among other things, Turkey must adapt their data protection systems, and pass legislation to EU standards. But it is also about the cooperation with the neighbours, Cyprus and Bulgaria.
Experts how to Alper Ecevit by the Department for EU relations at Istanbul’s Bahcesehir University to keep the appointment, therefore, illusory. In an Interview with the “Deutschlandfunk,” he warned that it is also domestic problems such as the fight against corruption and organised crime. “Anyone who knows Turkey knows that it can’t solve now times just in three months,” said Ecevit.
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Out of fear of just such internal problems of the Turkey-skeptics, such as Bavaria’s Prime Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) reject the full visa freedom for all Turks. If so, then you should apply only for the representative of the Turkish economy.
Specifically, Seehofer called the Kurdish conflict: While in the refugee crisis, especially on Syrians is being discussed, a possible influx of Kurdish refugees little attention. According to the government, the escalation has driven the end of violence in the Southeast already, more than 350,000 people.
Many seek refuge in Turkey. However, without a visa requirement in the Schengen area, you could enter as tourists and then apply for asylum. In an Interview with the ARD, the head of the prokurdischen party HDP, Selahattin Demirtaş warned that the people are fleeing the war should continue. “To Europe, to Germany.”
Terrorists on a tourist visa
Free passage for terrorists: The enemy as a consequence of the Visa-facilitation of fear. At the time, to escalate the violence in Turkey. The suicide bombers of the last two attacks in Ankara were Turkish citizens. With the new plans they would be able to easily enter the EU.
What is included in the on Friday approved concessions, exactly, should be clarified in the coming days. At the end of April, the EU should provide the EC with a recommendation as to whether Turkey fulfils the necessary requirements for the visa freedom.