Relations with the European Union (EU) have triggered the radical reforms undertaken recently in Turkey in several areas, the improvement of its policies towards the illegal migrants within the country being one of the most important. With the concept of new security threats becoming more important after the end of the Cold War and specifically after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, illegal migration has become a very important concern for the EU. This chapter deals, in detail, with the developments in the EU to fight illegal migration and how this had led to circumstances inside Turkey. Reforms made in Turkey in legal terms, specifically after the declaration of candidate status, are explained in detail with an analysis of challenges and potential solutions.
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Ünal Eriş, Ö. (2009). The Emergence of New Security Threats to the EU and Their Implications for EU–Turkey Relations: The Case of Illegal Migration. In: Arvanitopoulos, C. (eds) Turkey's Accession to the European Union. The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Series on European and International Affairs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88197-1_10
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