Merkel’s charm offensive in Turkey

The European Union has sought to strike a deal with Turkey to halt the refugee influx into Europe. Emily Hohler reports.

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Merkel and Davutoglu: driving a hard bargain on refugees

There is a "growing urgency" in Brussels to strike a deal with Turkey to halt the Syrian refugee influx into Europe, as Syrian leader Assad's assault on the opposition stronghold of Aleppo threatens to drive a new wave of up to 3.5 million refugees, says Matthew Holehouse in The Daily Telegraph. Syria's neighbours Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey have taken around five million refugees, with Turkey taking two million so far.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.