PERCEPTION OF SYRIAN REFUGEES AND NATIONALISM IN TURKEY: THE CASE OF EKSI SOZLUK
PERCEPTION OF SYRIAN REFUGEES AND NATIONALISM IN TURKEY: THE CASE OF EKSI SOZLUK
Author(s): Melis Zeynep Unur
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Summary/Abstract: Nearly 6.6 million Syrians have been forced to leave their country due to the civil war, which started in 2011 (UNHCR, n.d. a), and more than half of them live in Turkey (UNHCR, n.d. b). When mass movements from Syria to Turkey started in 2011 (Kirişci, 2014, p. 11), Turkey’s initial ‘open door’ policy was justified in terms of religious solidarity.
Book: New “Other” - Thoughts on Migration and Migrants
- Page Range: 55-76
- Page Count: 22
- Publication Year: 2025
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
