Angela Merkel, EU officials visit Turkey refugee camp

Turkey Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
(Image credit: Steffen Kugler/Pool/Bundesregierung via Getty Images)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European Union officials visited a Turkey refugee camp Saturday. The trip comes weeks after the EU made a deal with the nation to take in migrants who come to Greece illegally in exchange for billions in funding to take care of them.

Merkel visited the Nizip refugee camp in an effort to sell the controversial deal, CNN reports.

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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.