Permanent residency under temporary protection: Syrian refugees’ (steady) agglomeration pattern in Turkey

Stateless persons and refugees from Syria have come to Turkey due to crisis in Syria starting at 2011. The Republic of Turkey identified a new “legal status” for Syrian asylum seekers. While the international status is “refugee,” Turkey identified “temporary protection” (TP) for Syrian asylum seekers. The geographical drawback that the government of Turkey indicated in Geneva Convention in 1951 has legitimated the “new legal status” for middle eastern asylum seekers. Recently, the status and the long-lasting residency of Syrians have been a critical agenda in Turkey.