Controversial EU diplomat in Ankara steps up

brussels - EU ambassador to Turkey has submitted his resignation Tuesday. Hansjörg Haber, a 63-year-old German, had last month caused a diplomatic row by criticizing the Turkish laxity in completing the refugee deal between the EU and Turkey.

The European Commission moved Tuesday not comment on the report in the Turkish media.

The diplomat was last month at the Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned after he referred to a group of journalists to a Turkish saying:,, Start as a Turk, end up as a German '- suggesting that something is started with great enthusiasm, with the discipline of a German should be finished.,, Here is the exact opposite, 'Haber said. According to the chief negotiator for Turkey's accession to the EU, former Minister Volkan Bozkir, such,, condescending remarks inappropriate for an ambassador. '
  
    
     
      
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Turkey does still not fulfill the conditions that allow visa-free travel to the EU in exchange for withdrawal of Greece from Syrian refugees.