THE REFLECTIONS OF SYRIAN REFUGEE ISSUE ON TURKEY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PUBLIC POLICY AND THE ISSUE OF REFUGEES’ EDUCATION
KAMU POLİTİKASI PERSPEKTİFİNDEN SURİYELİ SIĞINMACI SORUNUNUN TÜRKİYE'YE YANSIMALARI VE SIĞINMACILARIN EĞİTİM SORUNSALI

Author : Veysel BABAHANOĞLU
Number of pages : 478-489

Abstract

“Immigration” is experienced in many places of the world from time to time on the reasons for such as war, security, and economic conditions. Recently, one hundred thousands of people living in the different geographies such as Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, Myanmar, Sudan, Syria, and Somalia, exposing to the obligatory immigration resulting from clash environment, have taken refuge in the neighbor countries that are more secure. As a result of civil war experienced in Syria, our neighbor, considerable number of Syrians were exposed to immigration and obliged to take in refuge in the neighbor countries, especially Turkey. Of course, as an extension of responsibility arising from history, Turkey, which does not avoid extending a hand to Syrian refugees, despite their economic burden, lodge refugees more than 3 million on its territories in respect of today in the scope of “open door” policy it has implemented. In addition, Syrian refuges losing their living area are not expected to return to a war area, in which chaos is experienced, in a near future. Turkey, which is caught in a highly unprepared way to immigration wave, gaining important experiences, could take successful steps about governance of immigration in time. Syrian refugees, accepted as a guest at the beginning, have become a part of our society today. This case affected our society in every sense and brought many problems together with it. In the scope of refugees ‘integration, besides the basic problems of refuges such as sheltering, working, and nutrition, their educational problem has also become an issue that is necessary to be importantly emphasized. According to the official figures, more than half of the refugees immigrating to Turkey consist of Syrian refugee children, who were obliged to interrupt their educations. This also revealed that it was necessary to determine the policies toward permanently solving of the food and sheltering needs of the refugees as well as their educational problems about governance of immigration. In this context, the aim of the study was determined as identifying what the possibilities of Syrian refugees living in Turkey to access to education and how these are carried out by examining the policies formed toward educational problem of Syrian refuges in terms of legislation.

Keywords

Public Policy, Educational Policies, Immigration, Syria, Turkey

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