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THE SOCIAL HUMANITARIAN AND CULTURAL COMMITTEE SOCHUM TOPIC Protection of migrant workers rights COUNTRY Republic of Turkey Traditionally Turkey has been known as an emigrant sending country In the 1960s and 1970s a mass volume of Turkish nationals immigrated to Western European nations especially to Western Germany With the advent of the new century on account of the intense migratory movements Turkey has transpired as a transit country and converted from the country of emigration into the one of immigration The escalation in the number of migrant workers has called a great concern about international workers rights for each nation Labour migration agreements in the early 1960s with Western European countries most notably Western Germany resulted in tremendous outflows of Turkish laborers The pact signed aimed to provide these flourishing economies with the temporally unskilled workers while alleviating the strain of unemployment in Turkey When the need for migrant workers of these countries lessened coincided with the economic boom in the Middle East in the 1970s
