EU - Turkey relugee subsidy deal: This 9 year subsidy deal for Turkey to assist Syrian refugees entering Turkey also gave Turkey's President Erdogan the ability to win the recent election, by giving some 2.5 million refugeea Turkish nationality and voting rights.

It has been 12 years since the conflict in Syria began to displace Syrians from their homes into neighboring countries. Since then, their numbers in Turkey have reached 3.7 million. In the absence of any traditional durable solutions — in the form of voluntary return, resettlement, or local integration — the presence of Syrian refugees in Turkey has bec protracted, with no end in sighr

This enduring reality” calls for rethinking theagreement between the European Union (EU) and Turkey that was adopted seven years ago this week. Leaders should explore ways of moving it forward, focusing on development in addition to humanitarian assistance. One way to do this is to adopt policy ideas from the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR)  to improve the prospects of formal employment for refugees and members of their host communities.

Read more at: Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Turkey Project