EU gropes for ways to help Turkey keep refugees at bay


  • World
  • Tuesday, 22 Sep 2015

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is groping for ways to persuade Turkey to do more to keep Syrian refugees on its territory and stop them flooding into Europe, amid deep mutual suspicion between Brussels and Ankara.

As a bitterly divided EU struggles to cope with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, securing the cooperation of non-member Turkey is seen increasingly as central to tackling the problem.

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