EU states have approved an action plan for Turkey, which it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe.
Nearly
600,000 migrants have reached the EU by sea so far this year, many of
them travelling from Turkey to Greece before seeking to head north.
Turkey made a number of demands in exchange for helping to stem the flow.
In
a press conference in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the
European Council, said he felt "cautious optimism" over the deal.
Reports in Bulgaria said that an Afghan man was shot dead while trying to enter Bulgaria from Turkey late on Thursday.
He was part of a "large group" of migrants trying to enter Bulgaria, AFP reported, quoting the interior ministry.
At the Brussels summit, European officials agreed to:
accelerate visa liberalisation for
Turks wanting to visit the EU's borderless Schengen area - if Turkey
complies with certain criteria
"re-energised" talks over Turkey joining the EU
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Turkey
had also asked for €3bn (£2.2bn, $3.4bn) in aid, something German
Chancellor Angela Merkel said EU states were considering.
Jean-Claude
Juncker, the president of the European Commission, said talks over the
sum to be given to Ankara would continue with Turkish officials over the
coming days.
Mrs Merkel will travel to Turkey at the weekend.
"There is still a huge amount to do," Mrs Merkel said. "But you cannot say that we've achieved nothing."
Media captionAli Khan from Pakistan on why he fled to Europe: "I didn't want to join the Taliban"EU sources had said several countries were cautious about rushing into an agreement with Turkey too quickly.
Among them were Greece, Cyprus and France.
Analysis - Chris Morris, BBC Europe correspondent, Brussels
Most
EU leaders know that, if there is any prospect of bringing the
migration crisis under any kind of control, then much closer
co-operation with Turkey is absolutely essential.
What we have had
in this summit is a tentative agreement to make progress - but it all
depends on how well it's actually implemented.
Donald Tusksaid he
was very clear that it all depends on whether the flow of refugees into
Europe is actually stemmed - and I don't think we are going to know for
some time whether Turkey has either the ability or the will to do that.
Earlier on Thursday, Mrs Merkel said all EU countries must be prepared to send security staff to the bloc's external borders.
She said it would be unfair to ask EU countries seeing the majority of initial migrant entries to secure borders as well.
"It's
quite obvious that only a few countries today take the majority of
refugees and if these countries now are asked to secure the external
borders on top of that, I don't think it would be what we could call a
fair distribution of effort," Mrs Merkel said.
She described the current situation as "very disorderly".
In other developments:
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his country would decide whether to close its border with Croatia on Friday
EU foreign policy chief Federica
Mogherini called for member states to address the causes of migration by
providing more money for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey
and for development in Africa
Five members of a Lebanese family have
drowned after a boat carrying them from Turkey to Greece capsized,
relatives say. Another four are missing.
Migrants arriving in Europe
593,432
migrants have arrived by sea in 2015, says IOM
3,103
migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean
76% arrived in Greece via the eastern route
70.1% of arrivals in Greece were from Syria
10,043 migrants arriving in Italy were unaccompanied children
710,000 migrants have crossed EU borders this year, according to Frontex figures
Reuters
Turkey is hosting some two million migrants, most of them fleeing the war in neighbouring Syria.
Turkey
has also called for the establishment of an international "safe zone"
for refugees inside northern Syria - but Mr Tusk said Russia's
involvement in Syria made the idea more difficult.
Also in
Brussels, the UK Prime Minister David Cameron said he would present four
main demands for change in the EU in November. It comes ahead of a
promised referendum on the UK's membership of the EU in 2017.
Mr Tusk welcomed Mr Cameron's announcement, adding that the "real negotiations" could start after early November.
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