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A Mass Migration Evolving From External To Internal: Turkey’s Syrian Abstract Türkiye has seen various migratory movements throughout the Republic’s 100-year-long history. However, none of these movements resembles the Syrian migration in terms of their scale, impact and consequences. As a result of this migration surge which started in 2011, Türkiye has become the country with the highest number of refugees in the world. Even the mass migration movements occurring in various regions around the world within the last ten years, do not seem to be able to change this situation. Many international authorities consider Syrian migration to be the largest migration movement of the 21st century, and another factor that makes this migratory movement significant is that it began as an international migration, but quickly changed into an intra-urban migration. In this regard, this paper deals with the Syrian refugees living in Türkiye, and its objective is to reveal whether this migratory movement that started as external, has turned into an intra-urban movement in time. One of the qualitative research methodologies employed in this paper is document analysis. National and international literature on the subject has been evaluated, as well as primary and secondary immigration legislation. The paper, which has been enriched with the data from relevant institutions, particularly Directorate General of Migration Management (GİGM), discovers that Türkiye’s “great internal migration movement” starting in the cities along the Syrian border, has been created by Syrians, and is still on-going. Keywords: International migration, Internal migration, Temporary protection, Syrians, Urban.

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