Angela Merkel, EU officials visit Turkey refugee camp

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.

Since 2015, Europe has struggled to manage an influx of migrants, many of them refugees fleeing war in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

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