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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Britain 'vulnerable to ISIS terrorists' if Turkey join the EU, claims Theresa Villiers

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/670333/britain-vulnerable-isis-terrorists-turkey-join-EU-theresa-villiers

TURKEY joining the European Union is almost “inevitable” and will make Britain more vulnerable to Islamic State terrorists, a Cabinet minister has warned.

By Caroline Wheeler

PUBLISHED: 00:00, Sun, May 15, 2016

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Villiers claims 600 IS fighters who have returned to Turkey will soon enjoy visa-free travel

Theresa Villiers claims 600 IS fighters who have returned to Turkey will soon enjoy visa-free travel starting from the border with Syria and Iraq up to the English Channel.

The Northern Ireland Secretary also revealed she planned to quit the Cabinet had the Prime Minister not relaxed collective responsibility to allow her to campaign for Brexit.

She was an MEP for six years, and said this helped form her view that Brussels was “unreformable”.

There are 600 IS fighters believed to have returned to Turkey and I think this poses serious security concerns

Theresa Villiers

The European Commission this month gave conditional backing for Turkey’s 79million citizens to travel through Europe’s Schengen area without visas. But in a hard-hitting interview, Ms Villiers, one of five Cabinet ministers campaigning to leave the EU, told the Sunday Express: “There are 600 IS fighters believed to have returned to Turkey and I think this poses serious security concerns.”
She claimed there was a “certain amount of inevitability” that Turkey would join the EU and added: “So that has to form a significant part of the thinking as people weigh up how to vote in the referendum.”

Ms Villiers also rejected claims made by Alan Johnson, who is leading Labour’s remain campaign, that leaving the European Union would derail the peace process in Northern Ireland.

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