Özet:

The policy of the European Union (EU) in the management point of the Syrian refugee crisis has been criticized in international politics and academic literature. A significant part of these criticisms focuses on whether the EU’s immigration policy towards the crisis is consistent with its normative power identity. The EU is often defined as a normative political power by referring to Ian Manners' theoretical framework. It is expected that the policy that the EU, a regulatory power, should be monitored towards the refugee crisis, will be summarized as follows: an EU-oriented, transnational, comprehensive, proactive and long-term policy, which focuses on the values of the EU and, in particular, on human rights. This policy, in other words, should not be an exhaustive, reactive and short-term immigration policy, which is a realist power policy, which focuses especially on the security dimension of the crisis. In this context, the study aims to examine whether the EU’s immigration policy against the Syrian refugee crisis is consistent with the EU’s normative power identity. Methodologically, the EU’s immigration policy has been studied in theory and analytics, not in detail by technical and doctrinal legal analysis, but by reference to the EU’s normative identity.