ABSTRACT
Turkey, having received more than 3.5 million Syrians, has become the country with the largest refugee population in the world since 2014. In this chapter, we first put forward a general framework that explains the situation of the Syrian and other refugees, as well as the irregular migrants who have arrived in Turkey since 2011. This is followed by a discussion of how the migration process itself has been managed, with a special focus on social interactions, global solidarity, and the EU–Turkey refugee agreement. We then focus on the politicization of the issue of refugees in Turkey to determine how it is reflected in the country’s current politics within the context of securitization theory. In this study, we made use of the original data set compiled from the Syrian Barometer surveys 1 to specifically examine the politicization and management of this migration process.
