Technical teams from Turkey and the European Union
will begin discussions on June 2 on visa-free travel, Turkey’s new EU
minister Ömer Çelik said on June 1, describing it as an integral part of
a wider deal on stemming illegal migration. At a news
conference in Brussels broadcast on Turkish television, Çelik said the
readmission and resettlement of migrants and visa liberalisation for
Turkish citizens were part of a package and could not be handled in
isolation.