FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN

TURKISH DEAL WITH EU OPENS DOOR FOR ISIS TO U.S.

Terrorists could take advantage of visa-waiver program to travel unhindered

F. Michael Maloof

WASHINGTON – A deal Turkey has made with the European Union for visa-free travel offers an avenue for ISIS fighters to travel to countries in Europe that have visa-waiver programs to enter the United States, regional sources tell Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

In this way, fighters could come from Syria into Turkey, which has been assisting ISIS. Then they could travel under the visa-free travel arrangement into a European country where they could get the necessary paperwork to enter the U.S.

While Turkey isn’t one of them, there are some 38 countries already part of the U.S. visa-waiver program. They include the countries of the European Union.

Turkey also has been in discussion with the U.S. State Department to join the VWP. It, along with eight other countries, is regarded as one of the “road map countries” that have expressed interest in joining the VWP.

This prospect comes as the European Commission – the top executive body of the EU – is to propose easing visa requirements for Turkey following Brussels-Ankara negotiations, with Turkey pushing the issue by threatening to back out of a migration deal it made with Europe to halt the uncontrolled flow of hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war.

For the rest of this report, and more, please go to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Turkey is known as a conduit and financial and logistical facilitator for jihadist fighters who travel back and forth to Syria. It has met some 65 of 72 security requirements for Turkish visa-free entry into the European Union, one source told G2 Bulletin. But another source said Ankara actually has met less than half of the required conditions.

Turkey also has been the conduit for some 2.5 million Syrian and more than 80,000 Iraqi refugees.

Sunni jihadist terrorists who participated in the Paris attack last November have admitted that they used the refugee program as a means of entry into Europe.

However, Marta Cygan, a director in the European Commission’s Migration and Home Affairs unit, recently told the European Parliament that Turkey has satisfied only half of the 72 conditions.

Another source who also asked for anonymity so he could speak freely told G2 Bulletin that Turkey had “backed Europe against the wall” with threats of opening the migration flood gates into Europe, which already is at a crisis level in handling the massive influx.

“If the European Commission does make the recommendation that Turks be granted visa-free travel in Europe’s Schengen area, as whispers from well-placed EU sources suggest, then it will be doing so holding its nose and its breath,” said BBC Europe editor and analyst Katya Adler.

The Schengen area refers to the 26 of the 28 EU countries that have abolished passports and border controls on their shared borders.

“It is hard to see how Turkey could be described as meeting these conditions,” she said. “The government in Ankara increasingly cracks down on its critics in a manner more autocratic than democratic.

For the rest of this report, and more, please go to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

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