The European Union has not paid 3 billion euros to Turkey up till now, which it has been obliged to pay within the framework of the migration deal signed with Ankara, stated the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports the RIA Novosti. 

"We accepted 3 million refugees. The EU has promised us to pay 3 billion euros [to Turkey]. We received 200-250 million euros only. They are dishonest. They said they would pay 3 billion, but we haven’t received it up till now, " said Erdogan in Istanbul at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Erdogan also noted that the EU became concerned with the problem of migration only after Ankara had announced about its readiness to open the borders for the refugees with the EU.

As earlier reported, in March of 2016 Turkey and the EU signed an immigration agreement, under which Turkey should receive 3 billion euros for keeping refugees in Turkey, as well as accept back the Syrian refugees who had reached the EU.