European Parliament Turkey Rapporteur Amor on visa liberalization criteria: Authorities are not showing interest
European Parliament Turkey Rapporteur Nacho Sanchez Amor spoke at a meeting with a group of Turkish journalists in Brussels.
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Amor stated regarding Turkey's visa liberalization, "The issues expected to be met for Turkey's visa liberalization are listed as 72 criteria.
In this context, there are 6 criteria left to be met out of the 72 criteria for Turkey's visa liberalization.
However, it seems that high-level officials are not showing much interest in this matter," he said.
Rapporteur Amor met with journalists from Turkey in Brussels, the capital of Belgium.
According to the report by Dünya newspaper, the official, who stated that the lifting of the Schengen visa for travel to EU countries is actually entirely in the hands of Turkish authorities, spoke as follows:
Arguing that the issue of completely lifting the Schengen visa for short-term travel to EU countries is actually entirely in the hands of Turkish authorities, Sanchez Amor said the following:
“The issues expected to be met for Turkey's visa liberalization are listed as 72 criteria. In this context, there are 6 criteria left to be met out of the 72 criteria for Turkey's visa liberalization. However, it seems that high-level officials are not showing much interest in this matter. Authorities in Turkey prefer to solve the problem with green passports and service passports.”