EU-TR Statement Analysis

Throughout history, people have migrated from one place to another including European shores. While some people reach their aim of escaping from political oppression, fleeing from poverty or war; millions are forced to leave their homes due to a variety of reasons such as conflicts, human rights violations, persecution, natural disasters, and violence. As a consequence of forced displacement, over 65 million people worldwide are in need of protection and assistance. Forcibly displaced populations include internally displaced groups of people, asylum-seekers and refugees; who are with a well-founded fear of persecution for the reasons of race, religion, nationality, politics or membership of a particular social group who have been accepted and recognized as such in their host countries. In the EU, the qualification directive sets guidelines for assigning international protection to those who need it. Taking into consideration of refugees of all ages from unstable regions, such as Syria, Iraq, and Libya within the framework of our research, European countries have been faced with

For a much more comprehensive evaluation, we will feed our analysis from statistical accounts and figures from the Reports on the Progress and UNHCR datas, published journals from SETA Foundation as well as news articles from agencies such as DW, Reuters and Al-Jazeera focusing on the political outcomes of the EU-TR Statement. In order to fully grasp the totality of the political dimension including the perspectives of both parties and to have an in-depth analysis of its aftermath, we have divided the analytical part of our research into two subcategories as follows: first, political disputes among the EU bodies on the implementation of the Statement; and second, the heightened tensions between the EU and Turkey following the implementation of the