European Union’s Policy of Securitisation and Its Reflection on the Turkish Asylum Policy:The Case of Systematic Expulsion of Refugees

The paper argues that the European Union’s(EU)policy of externalising migration management to transit states contrasts its founding values.Thereby,values enshrined under Article 2 TEU are intentionally interpreted in such a way to evade humanitarian responsibility concerning asylum seekers,arising from the EU and international treaty law.The paper examines the changing meanings of the principle of solidarity and argues that the solidarity has been interpreted in all possible meanings expect as a humanitarian norm to ensure that Union’s externalisation policy doesn’t contradict its founding values.It further argues that the Union’s externalisation policy encourages the transit states to evade responsibility by constructing their asylum policies on the same lines.Therefore,the EU becomes a source of adversely implicating humanitarian values in the world.The paper concludes by arguing that humanitarian interpretation of solidarity has become an issue of survival and morality for the Union.