Border security policies in Türki̇ye

Border security is the whole of the policies that determine the framework of the practices made to protect the countries' material and moral interests and ensure the security of the current sovereignty area. Governments determine different border security policies based on their administrative structures and security threats. Military security practices remain incomplete, considering the current risks and threats in border security practices. New issues such as smuggling activities, irregular migration, terrorism, the fight against drugs, climate, food security, and cyber security have become current border security issues. In particular, how the security policies, which are a determining factor on the implementations at the borders, have changed in the historical process and what their current needs. This thesis evaluated the historical background of Türkiye's border security policies in the light of security approaches and how its current institutional structure and dimensions are shaped. Then, the legislation and the administrative system of border security were discussed. In this thesis, the strengths and possible opportunities of current border security practices were analyzed, and Türkiye's approach in terms of administrative capacity was discussed. Within the scope of the thesis, not the dimensions of Türkiye's border security policies, but the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the functioning of the current policy, and the administrative capacity in this process are discussed with sub-criteria such as institutional structure, human resources, technical infrastructure.