The signing of the agreement was scheduled to have taken place on December 17 2013, a day after Turkey signed a readmission agreement with the European Union – with interior minister Muammer Güler signing on behalf of the government in Ankara.
But on December 17, after the announcement that Güler’s son Barış was among more than 20 people held by police in Istanbul in an early-morning raid in connection with the alleged corruption, interior minister Güler said that he was cancelling all of his appointments, including the signing of the deal with Bulgaria and Greece.
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17/12/13
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