THE DYNAMICS BEHIND REFUGEE AND ASYLUM POLICY MAKING IN TURKEY: MASS REFUGEE MOVEMENTS FROM BULGARIA AND IRAQ

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The study aims to analyse the factors that affected Motherland Party’s policy responses to the mass refugee flows that originated in Bulgaria and Iraq between 1988 and 1991. The research closely examines the parallels and discrepancies between the policy responses to the large-scale refugee flows from Bulgaria and Iraq, as well as the factors that led to these responses. The study uses a conceptual framework relating to the refugee response policies, which systematizes the analysis under border control, reception, long-term solution and addressing the root causes of the displacement sub-policy domains. Under this framework, the impact of Turkish national identity understanding on the policy responses to chosen mass refugee movements is examined without ignoring the importance of the different international and domestic considerations on the policy responses. The study argues that refugee and asylum policies are the result of the complex interplay between domestic and international factors. The analysis is based on primary and secondary resources with a combination of process tracing and comparative analysis methods. Hence, the study presents the role that national identity understanding played in policies developed toward mass refugee movements and how this role is shaped and transformed by the state’s consideration of different domestic and international factors.

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Mass Refugee Movements, National Identity, Turkey, Refugee Policy, Forced Migration

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G. Bozer, “THE DYNAMICS BEHIND REFUGEE AND ASYLUM POLICY MAKING IN TURKEY: MASS REFUGEE MOVEMENTS FROM BULGARIA AND IRAQ,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.