Turkey's asylum dilemma and process of EU harmonization

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Turkey has been one of the few countries that signed the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees with the provision of maintaining geographical limitation to that of offering protection only to European nationals. This is, however, expected to change as Turkey heads towards EU membership. Since 1999, Turkey has been declared as a candidate country to the European Union (EU), in the Helsinki Summit. It is expected to adopt EU Asylum Acquis into its legislation and to lift the geographical limitation of the 1951 Geneva Convention. This study aims to analyze EU’s Common Asylum Policy in order to present a comprehensive overview to EU Asylum Acquis and practices that are expected to be adopted by Turkey during the pre-accession process. The aim of this thesis is to analyze deficiencies of European Common Asylum Policy and its potential positive and negative effects on Turkey’s asylum policy.
Theory, Relations to Other Subjects.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18142
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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E. Su, “Turkey’s asylum dilemma and process of EU harmonization,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.
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