Having been caught wrong-footed by the influx of refugees from Syria, the EU is asking Turkey for help.<br /><br /> Brussels has previously been particularly critical of the government’s crackdown on the media back home.<br /><br /> Turkey regularly features low on media freedom ranking worldwide. <br /><br /> But now the EU wants to woo the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, into stemming the flow of migrants into Europe.<br /><br /> And the former prime minister wasted no time in reminding EU officials in how Turkey has taken in its fair share of people fleeing the conflict in Syria.<br /><br /> “Right now, we have 2.5 million refugees in our country. We’ve spent 7.8 billion dollars and received only 417 million from the international community,” Erdogan told reporters in Brussels.<br /><br /> “In the whole of Europe right now, there are 250,000 refugees and migrants,” he said.<br /><br /> “Europe has to manage its borders better. We expect Turkey to do the same,” said Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council. “The situation where hun
