COUNTRY-BASED POLICY BRIEFING ON MIGRATION-RELATED SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POLICIES: NATIONAL REPORT TURKEY
Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2021

Turkey has always been a country of migration. The population movements from rural to urban which started in the 1950s have continued; migration to European countries began in the 1960s in the form of labour migration and was followed by various forms of commercial migration. Thus since the early 1990s, Turkey has also been experiencing in-flows of transit migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, diverse forms of irregular migration and increasing number of foreign residents. Turkey has now become bo