AN ANALYSIS OF GRADUATE DISSERTATIONS ON “SYRIANS”

Syria’s conflict has devolved from the protests against the government in 2011 to an ongoing violent insurgency that driven 6 million people out of their countries. Having the longest borders with Syria, Turkey provided an open gate policy for those affected by the conflict. According to the numbers released by the General Directorate of Migration, there are 3 million 523 thousand 981 Syrians have been living in Turkey under the temporary protection law as of 15 February 2018. The aim of this study is to analyze how Syrians examined in graduate dissertations. For this purpose, dissertations about Syrians that uploaded into the YOK national Thesis Center will be analyzed with document analysis method in order to evaluate the perceptions of Syrian migrants in academia. Findings obtained as a result of the examination are interpreted by showing frequency tables