An Over­view of the Legal Situ­ation of Un­ac­com­pan­ied Chil­dren Ar­riv­ing in Turkey under the Law on For­eign­ers and In­ter­na­tion­al Pro­tec­tion

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

The art­icle ad­dresses the legal situ­ation of chil­dren ar­riv­ing in Turkey un­ac­com­pan­ied and without an adult rep­res­ent­ing them under the Law on For­eign­ers and In­ter­na­tion­al Pro­tec­tion. The ab­stract states that pro­tect­ing such chil­dren is a state re­spons­ib­il­ity, that in­ter­na­tion­al con­ven­tions and uni­ver­sal legal prin­ciples shape do­mest­ic rules, and that Turk­ish for­eign­ers’ law adopts a more pro­tect­ive and sens­it­ive ap­proach to­wards chil­dren than to­wards adults.