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This article focuses on proposing a citizenship test as a tool in Turkey’s migration management policies. Despite making new implementations to adjust and accommodate the highest level of migration in its republican history, Turkey needs a more comprehensive and systematic approach to the issue in the long run. As migration leads to naturalization in most cases, many countries prefer to regulate migration and naturalization with citizenship criteria as well as citizenship tests for their prospective citizens. For this study, citizenship test examples are taken from The United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) practices since they have been among the most popular countries for immigration throughout history. While the former has a relatively long experience in citizenship tests, the latter supports a new and more elaborated model. To what extent does Turkey take any of these countries as a model in the design of its own citizenship test? The question of why Turkey needs such regulation and what kind of test would be plausible will be discussed in this article. A proposed testing model will be given systematically specific to the Turkish case.

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