Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses an annual economy and trade meeting of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016. Erdogan declared Wednesday that an upcoming vote in the European Parliament on whether to freeze membership talks with Turkey is of “no value” to his country. (Yasin Bulbul, Presidential Press Service/Pool Photo via AP) (Associated Press)ISTANBUL — Turkey’s president on Friday accused the European Union of dishonesty and betrayal, and threatened to remove controls from his country’s borders, flooding Europe with hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers and other migrants. The European Parliament vote was in response to the government’s heavy-handed crackdown following a failed coup in July. The European Union promised, but the money it has sent so far is around 700 million.

Source: Washington Post November 25, 2016 09:11 UTC