Merkel takes high-risk bet on Turkey in refugee crisis


  • World
  • Saturday, 19 Mar 2016

BERLIN (Reuters) - For months, Germany's Angela Merkel has pleaded with her critics, at home and abroad, to give her just a little more time to forge a common European response to the refugee crisis.

On Friday, she got just that: a reprieve in the form of a far-reaching cooperation deal between the European Union and Turkey which, if successful, could turn the chaotic flood of migrants onto Europe's southern shores into an orderly, manageable stream.

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