The European Union is offering Turkish citizens visa-free travel in order to curtail refugees from seeking asylum in Europe, but Ankara has to fulfill one last privacy-related criteria in order to end visa requirements, The Washington Post reports. Turkey is required to align its data protection laws with European standards and ensure its data protection authority be free of political influence, enhancing its justice cooperation with the 28 Member States of the EU, and adjusting its definition of a terrorist act. After the visa proposal is endorsed, the only Turkish citizens allowed will be ones possessing new biometric passports possessing an individual’s facial and fingerprint data. Turkey will begin to make the passports in June.
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