Dr. Didem Danış wrote about the fifth year anniversary of the EU-Turkey Migration Statement of 18 March 2016. She analyses the objectives of the actors behind the statement.
Dr. Didem Danış wrote about the fifth year anniversary of the EU-Turkey Migration Statement of 18 March 2016. She analyses the objectives of the actors behind the statement. According to her, “this Statement is one of the instances in which contemporary global inequalities crystallize. It laid bare the asymmetrical power relations between the EU member states and those in the periphery of Europe on the plane of international affairs as well as between states and refugees. Secondly, the Statement, which came into effect as an attempt to prevent the mass movement and concomitantly the deaths, represented a moment of crystallization of the EU’s externalization policies. And lastly, it is a characteristic example of the instrumentalization of migrants and refugees as an issue of domestic and international politics.”
In this overview, Dr. Danış provides a depiction of the current situation by taking into account the opinions and interpretations of the experts interviewed on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Statement. Against the backdrop of the recently reignited talks about the Statement, policy recommendations for the future have also been presented.
This project is supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation Istanbul Office.
The Fifth Year of the EU-Turkey Statement, Didem Danış
