Semanur Pekkendir
Semanur Pekkendir is a deputy researcher at TRT World Research Centre. She received her BA in Comparative Literature and Media Studies from Istanbul Bilgi University and her MSc in Migration, Mobility and Development at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests include Turkish migration and asylum policies, citizenship and integration.
Items by Semanur Pekkendir
March 18, 2019
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Semanur Pekkendir It has been three years since the European Union signed the “one in, one out” deal with Turkey on 18 March, 2016. The ongoing humanitarian crisis on the Greek...
October 13, 2018
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Semanur Pekkendir Granting citizenship to Syrians in Turkey is a topic of discussion today more than ever before. So far, more than 50,000 Syrians have acquired Turkish citizenship. This has ignited...
February 5, 2018
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Semanur Pekkendir Summer 2015 saw the fixation of international media outlets upon “Europe’s Migrant Crisis”. It was the largest wave of mass-migration that Europe has faced since the end of the...
![Syrian children walk in the mud after a heavy rain fell at a refugee camp in Syria on 6 February 2016 [Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2016_10-30-Displaced-Syrian-children-in-campGettyImages-508727500.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
It has been three years since the European Union signed the “one in, one out” deal with Turkey on 18 March, 2016. The ongoing humanitarian crisis on the Greek...![A Syrian family is seen on a pick up truck with their belongings as they return to their homes Afrin and Idlib, after Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) took complete control of northwestern Syria's Afrin from PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups within the "Operation Olive Branch" on 24 March, 2018 [Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180324_2_29427776_32007781.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Granting citizenship to Syrians in Turkey is a topic of discussion today more than ever before. So far, more than 50,000 Syrians have acquired Turkish citizenship. This has ignited...![Syrians swim to safety after travelling on the Mediterranean sea [Tamer Yazar/Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2015_9-27-Aegean-Sea-migrants12019921_1011276648925277_8467498892773980470_n.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Summer 2015 saw the fixation of international media outlets upon “Europe’s Migrant Crisis”. It was the largest wave of mass-migration that Europe has faced since the end of the...