Turkey’s Prospective EU Membership from a Migration Perspective: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back?

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1. The workshop report can be downloaded at http://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/en/wp-content/ uploads/2013/02/Workshop-Report.pdf [last visited 12 December 2013].
2. The Mercator – IPC Fellowship Program allows international scholars and civil society activists from especially, but not exclusively, Germany to work on academic and practical projects at the Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) on three thematic areas: EU/German-Turkish relations, climate change and education. See, http://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/en/about_ fellowship/#sthash.R05wbgNT.dpuf [last visited 12 December 2013].
3. The selected articles can be found at http://www.turkishpolicy.com/category/130/2013-1 [last visited 12 December 2013].
4. See USAK’s related fieldwork on Syrian refugees, “Mayınlı Arazide Yürümenin Adı: Suriye’de Değişimi Zorlamak”, USAK Raporları, No. 11-04, at http://www.usak.org.tr/usak_det. php?id=1&cat=817&h=#.UoYsiU05nIU [last visited 15 November 2013].
5. See Düvell’s paper on Syrian refugee crisis for further debate on Turkey’s transformation into a buffer zone, Franck Düvell, “Turkey, the Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Changing Dynamics of Transit Migration”, IE Med. Mediterranean Yearbook 2013, at http://www. iemed.org/observatori/arees-danalisi/arxius-adjunts/anuari/iemed-2013/Duvell%20 Turkey%20Syrian%20Refugees%20EN.pdf [last visited 15 November 2013].
6. This position is highly controversial since the European approach to migration is very security oriented in which third country nationals and entries from non-EU countries are seen as threats.
7. It is also 90th anniversary of the population exchange between Turkey and Greece, which was not covered in this issue.
8. For further information see, Seçil Paçacı Elitok, “Remittance Flows Between Germany and Turkey: Reverse Trend?”, IPC-MERCATOR Policy Brief, (August 2013), at http://ipc. sabanciuniv.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Remittance-Flows-Between-Germany-and- Turkey1.pdf [last visited 15 November 2013].

9. Seçil Paçacı Elitok, “Turkey’s Negotiations on Migration:One-on-One or One-on-Twenty Seven?”, IPC-MERCATOR Policy Brief, (March 2013), at http://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/en/wp- content/uploads/2013/04/secilelitok_TR_EU_migration1.pdf [last visited 18 November 2013].
10. Ebru Turhan, “The 2013 German Federal Elections: Key Determinants and Implications for German- Turkish Relations”, IPC-MERCATOR Policy Brief, (November 2013), at http:// ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2013-German-Federal-Election-Policy- Brief.pdf [last visited 15 November 2013].