Transit mobility governance in Turkey

The concept of transit mobility in relation to Turkey is used to describe irregular movements of persons who use Turkey as a transit country to enter the European Union (EU). Since the mid-1990s, the increasing importance of Turkey as a major country for irregular mobility towards Europe has become a key topic of concern for the EU. This has sparked scholarly interest in the examination of Turkey and transit mobility. Studies have examined the geographical origins, routes and types of mobile populations and the socio-economic dynamics of transit in Turkey. Furthermore, numerous works have examined the interplay between Turkish management of human mobility and its accession negotiations with the EU. They have argued that the EU has sought to externalize its border and human mobility regime by exerting pressure on Turkey to reform its policies in accordance with those of the EU, notes that the good governance of transit mobility has become a type of conditionality for the progress and completion of membership talks and generated different degrees of reforms and legal developments in Turkey.