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Harmonisation of Migration Policy and Turkey’s Security Challenges

07/08/2009
Author : Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM - Turkey)
By Kemal Kirişci
 
A new issue of the EDAM (Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies) Discussion Paper Series has just been published with the support of The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). In his analysis entitled “Harmonisation of Migration Policy and Turkey’s Security Challenges”, Prof. Kemal Kirişci examines the challenges posed by the need to harmonise Turkey and European Union’s migration policies.

"Turkey and the EU need each other in respect to the management of migration. Turkey must show the goodwill and recognize the importance of adopting the EU acquis on migration not just for the sake of EU membership but also for becoming a truly 21st century modern state capable of exercising its national sovereignty within the bounds of the rule of law and the norms associated with a pluralist democracy. The EU must show evidence of wanting to re-establish the credibility of conditionality. Political conditionally induced a fascinating transformation in Turkey in respect to meeting the Copenhagen political criteria. That momentum has been lost. Undoubtedly Turkey must take some of the blame but the EU has to recognize its share too. The manner in which Turkey’s membership prospects have been thrown into doubt over the last two years has made some mockery of the very pillar on which the EU is based, pacta sund servanda. Reviving the credibility of the EU will make it that much easier to achieve a “win-win” game in respect to the management of migration. It would be a win for the EU, for Turkey, for neighboring countries but also for bona fide refugees as well as migrants including the illegal ones. After all “even” illegal migrants are entitled to the protection of their basic human rights. A EU that fails to ensure respect for the most vulnerable in side or in its neighborhood could not continue to claim the high ground associated with being “soft and normative” power."

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