@article{article_341263, title={Syrians and Citizenship: An Evaluation on the Local People and Syrian Asylum Seekers}, journal={OPUS International Journal of Society Researches}, volume={7}, pages={678–705}, year={2017}, DOI={10.26466/opus.341263}, author={Gülyaşar, Melike}, keywords={Syrians,Turks,refugees,citizenship,acceptance of citizenship}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <i> <span lang="en-gb" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:’Palatino Linotype’, serif;" xml:lang="en-gb">The subject of
the study consists of the possibility of giving citizenship to Syrians which
creates a discussion field and how it is perceived by Turks and the reasons for
this. Since 2011 when Arab Spring leaped to Syrian and immediately intensified,
Turkey is one of the main countries where Syrians took refuge. In this sense,
it is important that Turkey which has never encountered with such intense
immigration so far welcomed and accepted the refugees with humanitarian
justifications.  However, as the end of
the war in Syria became more difficult as the time went by, and in this sense,
the fact that refugees who were thought to be temporary became permanent
brought up the issue of citizenship. Thus, while the issue that Syrians receive
citizenship emerge as an important question creating one of the most important
discussion fields today, it is evaluated that there is a serious gap in the
literature on this subject and when the available studies related to the topic
are examined, it is observed that there are only short references on it. The
topic of what Syrians think about the issue of citizenship, whether they would
accept it or not in the case of receiving citizenship, what kind of
contribution citizenship would provide to them and in turn, what kind of contribution
they would provide to Turkey are revealed in the study with the interview
technique. It was attempted to reveal the opinions of Turkish people through
interviews done in the study “Social Acceptance and Harmony”carried out by
Murat Erdoğan, social reactions created via social media and by
analyzingvarious studies. The findings obtained in the study demonstrated that,
in the eye of the Syrians, while the majority leaned towards the citizenship,
predicating their views on reasons such as that they would feel themselves more
guaranteed in the case of receiving citizenship, they would live at better and
equal conditions, when the opinions of Turks are approached, quite the
contrary, it was demonstrated that the majority opposed giving citizenship and
based this on the justifications of nationality factor, many problems thought
to be created by Syrians, the anxiety that they would stay here in the case of
giving citizenship, the fact that they are perceived as a burden in the
economic sense and within this context, it was observed that the opinions of
Turks and Syrians demonstrated great differences.  </span> </i> </p> <p> <i> </i> </p> <i> </i>}, number={13}, publisher={İdeal Kent Yayınları}