Migration & Turkey

True or False: The first half of the 20th century was very much marked by state and nation building, generating large waves of forced migrations and deportations.

• True

• False

The number of non-Muslims in Anatolia dropped drastically over time. Which incident has nothing to do with this decrease?

• 1915 Armenian Genocide

• 1923 Greece-Turkey Population Exchange

• 1942 Wealth Tax

• 1990 Cold War

.... terms on who can immigrate, settle, and acquire refugee status in Turkey giving notable preference to immigrants and refugees of 'Turkish descent and culture'.

• Law on Settlement of 1934

• 1944 Settlement Law

• Resettlement Law of 1954

• 1934 Citizenship Law

Which ones are the motivations for Turkey to sign bilateral

• opportunity to decrease Turkey's rate of unemployment

• develop Turkey's economy through emigrant remittances

• 'guest workers’ would come back to Turkey with new skills and help transform its agricultural economy into an industrial one

• create a Turkish diaspora in Europe

Turkish immigrants were late in joining the post-World War II flow of workers, why? (Check all that applies.)

• Turkey lacked the colonial ties (such as those between Morocco and France) that many of the labor supply countries had with the labor recruiting countries in Western Europe.

• Other labor supply countries were geographically closer to Europe.

• Turkey did not have an established tradition of emigration like other labor supply countries such as Italy and Spain.

• Turkey was an imperial power.

Turkey does not have a bilateral guest labor agreement with .... .

• Germany

• Norway

• United States

• France

Which incidents caused diversification of labor emigration from Turkey? (Check all that applies.)

• 1973-4 Oil Crisis

• End of the Cold War

• 1991 Gulf Crisis

• Syrian War

The first wave of asylum seekers to Turkey came from .... in 1979.

• Iran

• Iraq

• Bulgaria

• Syria

Turkey has four types of international protection, and these are:

• Refugees

• Conditional Refugees

• Subsidiary Protection

• Temporary Protection

• Substantial Protection

True or False: Turkey is a signatory of the 1951 Geneva Convention, but it has a geographical limitation, i.e., it only accepts refugees from the OECD countries.

• True

• False