Turkey meets 65 of 72 requirements for visa liberalisation

Abstract:

As part of the EU-Turkey deal on migrants and refugees, signed on 18 March 2016, the EU agreed:

"to accelerate the implementation of the visa liberalization roadmap with all Member States with a view to lifting the visa requirements for Turkish citizens at the latest by the end of June 2016."

On 4 May the Commission published the ‘Third Report on progress by Turkey in fulfilling the requirements of its visa liberalisation roadmap’.

The "roadmap" has 72 requirements grouped under five headings.

Here we provide an overview of the requirements and information on whether or not they have been fulfilled, as set out in the working document that accompanied the Commission’s communication.

The working document provides more detail on what Turkey has done with regard to each of the individual requirements. It also contains an 11-page annex setting out an ‘assessment of the security impact of visa liberalisation’.