Özet:

The process of change of people depends on many economic, social, political, and cultural reasons. Environmental issues are one of these. The activities that people carry out to sustain their lives bring environmental problems with them. The state of temporary or constant change of place due to environmental problems and changes has existed since the emergence of mankind. The extinction of resources, the absence of plantable land, the changes in seasons have forced people to migrate from one place to another region. Changes in global scale due to environmental problems have been discussed since the 1980s. One of the global scale problems arising from human activity is climate change. Global climate change has the potential to have a direct impact on living conditions. Climate change has become the subject of the work of different disciplines. Immigration resulting from the direct or indirect effects of global climate change has raised the problem of climate refugees, unlike the traditional refugee approach. Climate refugees who have been forced to leave their habitates due to the rise of sea level, the inefficiency of agricultural land, the effects of natural disasters, have come to the agenda in recent years. At this point, questions arise in the context of global climate change who are considered as climate refugees, what type of status should be given to climate refugees and what type of policies should be developed towards these persons. Climate refugees, which are not covered by the Geneva Convention on the Legal Status of Refugees and are directly related to environmental refugees, are not only related to the environment, but also related to security. The study in this context aims to investigate the current situation of climate refugees in the context of global climate change and their potential impact on the future in terms of security. The study first addresses the problems arising from global climate change and the security relationship through current literature and current events. Climate refugees are then examined in the context of global climate change. In this context, the scope of the concept of climate refugees is assessed through national/international legal regulations and practices. Finally, the examples of climate refugees from the world are addressed, the security issues that climate refugees can pose and the security approaches. The study found that global climate change in the future and the number of climate refugees that will increase as a result of this change could be among the effective factors in the creation of national and international security policies.