TESEV’s Internal
Displacement and Social Rehabilitation Project has recently published the
English edition of the book “Coming to Terms with Forced Migration:
Post-Displacement Restitution of Citizenship Rights in
Turkey”. Initially
published in Turkish in June 2006, the book examines internal displacement in
Turkey through the lens of five different disciplines, each written by expert
academicians (law section by Dilek Kurban, sociology by Deniz Yükseker,
political science and conflict resolution by Ayşe Betül Çelik, demography by
Turgay Ünalan and mental health by A.
Tamer Aker. The book compares
Turkey’s
experience of internal displacement with other country examples, situates it in
the international framework and offers policy proposals. The English edition
has been updated in line with developments between June 2006 and August 2007. Our faculty member Ayşe Betül Çelik was one of the
editors of the book and contributed to it on the theoretical framework to
analyze the issue from a conflict resolution perspective, reviewed the literature
on the EU and
U.S.A.’s role
in changing
Turkey’s
position on the issue, and evaluated on the situation in Batman, one of the
internally displaced-producing cities.
