Erdogan: US should choose between Turkey, Kurdish forces

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26. Merkel to visit Ankara over Syrian refugee crisis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay a visit to the Turkish capital on Feb. 8, to meet with the prime minister, as the European Union struggles to cope with the more than one million Syrian refugees that have fled their country due to an ongoing civil war.

According to her official program, Merkel will hold talks with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu in Ankara, with the main focus of the meeting being the implementation of the EU-Turkey Action Plan.

The European Union pledged to give 3 billion euros worth of funds to Turkey in return for a stoppage of irregular migrants travelling to EU member countries.

“The core of the meeting will be on how the action plan agreed between Turkey and the EU in late November [2015] is implemented,” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin on Feb. 5.

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