Turkey: Istanbul’s unique approach to the Syrian refugee crisis is creaking badly
By Umut Korkut and curated from The Conversation on October 1, 2014 World
The official Turkish policy is that it doesn’t accept asylum applications from outside Europe. The Syrian refugee crisis forced this to change. It led the Turkish authorities to implement, in their words, “innovative policy instruments”. This has been done without ever changing the official policy, partly by treating the Syrians as guests rather than refugees as such.
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