REASONS OF THE OCCUPATIONS AND CONSEQUENT PROCESS OF FORCED MIGRATION IN AFGHANISTAN Cover Image

AFGANİSTAN’DA YAŞANAN İŞGALLERİN SEBEPLERİ VE NEDEN OLDUĞU ZORUNLU GÖÇ SÜRECİ
REASONS OF THE OCCUPATIONS AND CONSEQUENT PROCESS OF FORCED MIGRATION IN AFGHANISTAN

Author(s): Serdar Çakmak
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Peace and Conflict Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Karadeniz Araştırmaları Merkezi
Keywords: Afghanistan; Occupation; Irregular Migration; The USSR; The US;

Summary/Abstract: First of all, it is necessary to address what kind of political perspective created in the context of historical conjuncture and ‘the Great Game’ in order to understand the occupation and migration processes in Afghanistan, an unstable country in which security problems have been going through for centuries. Thereafter, it will be logical to address ‘the New Great Game’ based on the irregular migration movements experienced by both the USSR and the US occupation. Irregular migration movements that do not come to the fore will also be emphasized in this study where how Afghan asylum seekers who moved to Pakistan, Iran and Türkiye with the occupation of the USSR in 1979 were accepted by these countries with what kind of methods and ways will be explained. Particularly, in the sub titles where nearly 5 thousands asylum seekers of Turkish origin who came to Türkiye through Pakistan by ‘the Settlement Law No. 2641’ in 1982 will be explained, the asylum actions that remain in the depths of history will be tried to be brought to the forefront. In this article, questions that followed will be answered and an analyses will be tried to be made from comparative perspective: ‘Were the occupations in Afghanistan and the asylum seeker and the refugee policies in the border countries (Pakistan-Peshawar, etc.) effective in the establishment and strengthening of the Taliban?; what was the reason for the occurrence of terror and irregular migration flows in these lands where Britain, the USSR and the United States respectively tried to prevail?; how were countries like Türkiye affected by this migration process?; what kind of solutions can be offered to prevent the movement of Afghan asylum seekers?

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 78
  • Page Range: 347-366
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Turkish