MOSCOW (Sputnik), Daria Chernyshova — Regardless of Turkey’s success in stemming the flow of migrants into the European Union, Ankara is likely to demand more EU money, a member of the European Parliament from the UK Independence Party (UKIP) told Sputnik Monday.
"I doubt that it can be successful. I think win, lose or draw, more money will be sent to Turkey in the future, I’m 110% sure of that," James Carver said.
He stressed that Turkey is also quite unlikely to meet the European standards of democracy under the presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which could be proved if one looks at the "treatment of the Kurdish minority, the treatment of the press, human rights, it's no longer looking like a secular state anymore."
He stressed that the deal with Brussels is intended to let Turkey join the European Union but because of the progressively volatile situation in the Middle East, the difficulty of the region politically and stability wise "regrettably it won't be the last migrant crisis that comes out of the Middle East."
The European Union is currently struggling to manage a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people leaving conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa for Europe. Over a million illegal border crossings have been detected by the EU border agency Frontex since the beginning of 2015.
Around 2.1 million Syrian refugees are temporarily living in Turkey. The European Union is attempting to prevent their travel to the bloc by giving Turkey money to provide for decent refugee living conditions.
