Evaluating Turkish Migration Law Through TWAIL: How Bigger Is the World Than Five?

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This 2021 article by Atahan Demirkol and Şahin Eray Kirdim evaluates Turkish migration law through the lens of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and asks whether the Third Worldist discourse adopted in Turkey’s foreign policy has any reflection in its national migration law. The authors argue that, particularly through the Readmission Agreement and the Law on Foreigners and International Protection, Turkey has moved away from a Third Worldist approach and has not translated its pro-TWAIL foreign-policy language into migration law.