The presentation aims to analyse the external dimension of the EU’s immigration policy and its implications for Turkey as a transit country. It tries to demonstrate the development and institutionalization of the EU’s externalization of its immigration policy within a theoretical context. Applying the theoretical debate
concerning “Europeanization beyond EU borders”, it investigates to what extent the EU has successfully externalised its immigration policy to Turkey, and what kind of intended and unintended impacts this has had on Turkey's migration management. It tries to explore both the successes and limits of the Europeanization of Turkey’s domestic immigration policy by benchmarking progress in the harmonization of legal contexts, border management, visa policies, readmission agreements and asylum policies.