The current system of international relations and international law obliges each state to provide the fundamental rights not only for its citizens, also for anyone inhabiting on its lands. The responsibility to provide international protection belongs primarily to the state that the individual has applied for asylum.
As a consequence of the changes in the common immigration and asylum policies of the European Union, and the negative and limiting effects of these changes on the rights of immigrants and refugees, Turkey has increasingly become a center of attraction for the asylum-seekers.
With this study, we aim to discuss, through historical and current cases, the perception and the practical application of the international protection in Turkey by giving reference to the resolutions of the European Court of Human Rights and The Foreigners and International Protection Act in the framework of refugee law principles and fundamental needs of the individual.
