ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the implementation of the recent external voting policy in Turkey. The aim of this chapter is to understand the political drivers that brought to the implementation of the policy in the country. The first part of the chapter discusses the emigration waves that affected the countries over the twentieth century and the impact of the emigration for the creation of the transnational community. The second part of the chapter analyses the implementation of the external voting policy and the impact of the votes from abroad in the overall electoral outcome. In this section, the role of political parties is analysed together with the political preferences from abroad and the electoral turnout in the elections since the implementation of the external voting policy. The third part of the chapter investigates the dual citizenship approach implemented by Turkey and the impact of the dual citizenship policy for the transnational community. In this chapter, the positioning of political parties in supporting the external voting policy is to investigate. In particular, the interest in Turks living in Germany will be discussed to understand why some domestic political parties have started to develop an interest in emigrants.
