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ANKARA, Jan 13 — President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday told ambassadors from the European Union that the bloc had not provided meaningful support in battling migration and that it had not reciprocated Turkey’s efforts to improve relations. Ties between Ankara and the bloc reached a boiling point...

ANKARA, Jan 13 — President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday told ambassadors from the European Union that the bloc had not provided meaningful support in battling migration and that it had not reciprocated Turkey’s efforts to improve relations.

Ankara and Athens, Nato allies, have since resumed talks to address their differences, easing tensions and establishing what both Turkey and the bloc have called a “positive agenda”, though the move has yielded little improvement in cooperation. “I want to state with sadness that we did not receive the response we wanted from the EU side to these steps,” he said.

Turkey currently hosts some 4 million Syrian refugees, the world’s largest refugee population, and has said it will not accept any more migrants.

 

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