Temporary protection in International Law

In history, asylum movements originated from religious and ethnic intolerances, nowadays mostly due to wars among countries, civil wars, revolutions, foreigner state occupations, discriminating and repressive regimes with regards to race, religion, language and ethnic origin. Agreements, protocols, regulations and circulars have been developed nationally and internationally for creating a legal basis and giving legal descriptions of asylum and international protection. The basic convention related to asylum is the 1951 Geneva Convention and the basic protocol is the 1967 Protocol. Turkey accepted this convention and protocol with geographical limitation and put the 1994 Regulation into force. Then, as the first immigration law "Law on Foreigners and International Protection" entered into force. By taking as a basis of the Article 91 of this law, the 1994 Regulation lost its effect and was replaced by The Temporary Protection Regulation. There are three types of international protection in Turkish Law: refugees, conditional refugees, and secondary protection. Temporary protection, is not accounted among the types of international protection under the LFIP. Temporary Protection status is only provided when the Council of Ministers decides and provided to foreigners who were forced to leave their countries in mass influxes, who entered another country collectively, sought urgent protection and who are expected to return to their home countries when the life-threatening situations have passed. In its history, Turkey has hosted large numbers of protection seekers. Bosnians, Iraqis, and now Syrians are examples of temporarily protected people. Key Words: International Protection, Temporary Protection, Temporary Protection Regulation, Syrians