Whether Turkey should be deemed as a "safe third country" for asylum seekers in Europe is a legal conundrum that deserves heightened attention with the adoption of the EU-Turkey Statement of March 2016 and EU-Turkey Readmission Agreement. This book aspires to contribute to this discussion through an analysis of Turkish judicial practices on international protection, removal and administrative detention procedures, including their interaction with international and European framework and jurisprudence. One purpose of the book is to display the protection challenges that the safe third country concept creates through the example of Turkey. The position defended is that Turkish judicial practices or any other component of safe third country assessment such as administrative practices or normative framework should be evaluated from this perspective, by keeping in mind the inherent problems of the safe third country concept. In the assessment of Turkey's position as a safe third country ...
