Meltem Ineli-Ciger

About/Bio

Meltem Ineli-Ciger is an Assistant Professor at the Suleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Law in Turkey. She holds an LLM degree in international law and a PhD degree from University of Bristol. She is the author of Temporary Protection in Law and Practice (Brill/Nijhoff 2017) and co-editor of Seeking Asylum in the European Union (Brill/Nijhoff 2015). Meltem is a doctoral affiliate of Refugee Law Initiative, University of London and a member of Odysseus Academic Network. Her current research interests include Syrian refugees in Turkey, protection gaps and the Global Compact on Refugees.

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Will the Global Compact on Refugees Address the Gap in International Refugee Law Concerning Burden Sharing?

Introduction There are 65.6 million forcibly displaced persons including over 22.5 million refugees in the world. According to UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), 10 states are hosting more than 60% of the world’s refugees while 10 states are providing 93% of UNHCR’s budget and three states are accounting for 90% of refugee resettlement. The number…

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