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MADRID Connor Cook Raiders Jersey , Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Real Madrid and Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas spoke about his future both at his club and for his nation on Wednesday at an event organized by a Spanish brewery.


Casillas has regained his role as first choice keeper for Real Madrid despite the summer signing of Keylor Navas from Levante and looked to have recovered his form.


However, a bad mistake in Spain's recent 2-1 European qualifying defeat away to Slovakia has again drawn criticism and he was replaced by Manchester United's David De Gea for the comfortable 4-0 win in Luxemburg on Sunday night.


Del Gea is now the natural successor to Casillas for Spain and the 34-year goalkeeper assures it will be a smooth handover.


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Spain coach Vicente del Bosque has always kept faith in Casillas and the goalkeeper expressed his gratitude.


"I have always had a fabulous relationship with him and I know I will not be able to play forever. There are people coming along behind me and I don't take that badly," he commented.


Casillas also referred to the criticism he has received in recent months.


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ISTANBUL， March 20 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian refugee card that Turkey is playing to push the EU to grant visa-free travel for Turkish citizens risks failure， as many of the refugees choose to stay in Turkey instead of leaving for a hostile Europe， analysts here said.


"Even if the doors are opened (by Turkey)， I don't think the refugees would flock to Europe in large numbers as was the case in the past，" Metin Corabatir， president of the Ankara-based Research Center on Asylum and Migration， told Xinhua.


The Turkish government feels the EU has failed to honor a jointly-concluded refugee deal by not having so far granted Turkish citizens visa-free travel to the Schengen countries within the bloc.


Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu threatened last week to "blow the mind" of Europe by allowing 15，000 refugees to flock to Europe each month.


Turkey officially hosts around 3.6 million refugees， some 3.2 million of whom are Syrians.


Turkey inked the refugee pact with the EU in November 2015 to stop the illegal migration toward Europe in return for visa-free travel for its citizens， revival of its long-stalled accession talks and financial aid for refugees in Turkey.


"I feel many of the Syrians have already started to establish a life for themselves in Turkey，" said Corabatir.


Noting it became clear in 2015 that Europe was not waiting for the refugees with open arms， he added， "Leaving for Europe would be a big risk for the refugees."


According to the UN refugee agency， a total of 844，000 refugees， the majority of whom Syrians， illegally migrated to Greece via Turkey in 2015. Some also illegally entered Greece and Bulgaria through the Turkish border in Thrace.


Many of the refugees made it to Germany， but had to face great hardships on their way due to cold weather， long walks and bad treatment at border passes.


Hundreds of refugees got drowned in the Aegean while trying to reach Greek islands. Some countries built fences to stop the refugees from entering their territories， with Bulgaria expected to complete in May a 270-km-long fence along the Turkish border to prevent illegal migration.


European politicians have felt threatened by the mass arrivals as anti-refugee sentiment has risen on the continent.


"Other than small groups， I don't expect there to be a big wave of migrants toward Europe any more，" Murat Bilhan， deputy chairman of the Istanbul-based think tank Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies， told Xinhua.


Following the deal， irregular migration to Europe through Turkish shores has sharply fallen thanks largely to measures taken by Turkey along its Aegean coast and its border in Thrace.


Turkey expected the EU， based on the deal updated in March last year， to grant visa-free travel by last October， arguing that it had fulfilled all the 72 benchmarks required under the deal.


The EU argues， however， that there are still several benchmarks Turkey needs to meet， like narrowing the definition of terrorism in the criminal law.


Various reports penned by Turkish researchers in recent years have argued that many of the Syrians are here to stay.


Bilhan， the former diplomat， feels that a recent ban by some EU countries on campaign rallies by several Turkish cabinet ministers may well be linked to this fact about Syrians in Turkey.


The Syrians have managed in one way or another to scrape a living in Turkey and are well aware of Europe's negative attitude toward migrants， he noted.


Currently， 258，000 of the roughly 3.2 million Syrians in Turkey are hosted in camps in various cities， while the rest are left to their own devices.


The refugee issue was once again raised by Turkey last week following a spat with Germany and the Netherlands， two EU members that barred Turkish ministers from addressing Turkish immigrants ahead of a key referendum in Turkey.


Soylu's remarks came after Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned that Turkey could cancel the refugee deal， accusing the EU of having failed to do its part.


"If there is no visa-free travel， we may cancel the migration deal，" Cavusoglu said.


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