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Migration & Turkey

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

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

a)

1915 Armenian Genocide

b)

1923 Greece-Turkey Population Exchange

c)

1942 Wealth Tax

d)

1990 Cold War

3.

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

a)

Law on Settlement of 1934

b)

1944 Settlement Law

c)

Resettlement Law of 1954

d)

1934 Citizenship Law

4.

Which ones are the motivations for Turkey to sign bilateral

a)

opportunity to decrease Turkey's rate of unemployment

b)

develop Turkey's economy through emigrant remittances

c)

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

d)

create a Turkish diaspora in Europe

5.

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

a)

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.

b)

Other labor supply countries were geographically closer to Europe.

c)

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

d)

Turkey was an imperial power.

6.

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

a)

Germany

b)

Norway

c)

United States

d)

France

7.

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

a)

1973-4 Oil Crisis

b)

End of the Cold War

c)

1991 Gulf Crisis

d)

Syrian War

8.

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

a)

Iran

b)

Iraq

c)

Bulgaria

d)

Syria

9.

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

a)

Refugees

b)

Conditional Refugees

c)

Subsidiary Protection

d)

Temporary Protection

e)

Substantial Protection

10.

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.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

True or False: Syrians in Turkey are conditional refugees.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

True or False: Syrians in Turkey are under a temporary protection regime.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

True or False: Because of Turkey's geographical limitation on the 1951 Geneva Convention, those asylum seekers coming from non-OECD countries are called conditional refugees to be resettled to third countries.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

True or False: A large proportion of Syrians in Turkey are old people.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

True or False: Istanbul hosts the largest Syrian population in Turkey.

a)

True

b)

False