Away From Iraq: Post 2003 Iraqi Migration to Neighboring Countries and to Turkey

The violence and instability that have reigned in Iraq since 1991 have forced some four million people to migrate from the country and have resulted in the internal displacement of a similar number of persons. The main destinations for Iraqi migration have been neighboring countries. While some one million Iraqis escaped to Syria, more than a half a million left for Jordan. Turkey has been one of the important destinations for Iraqi asylum seekers. Iraqi migration to Turkey has continued in a limited but continuous way since the 1991 refugee crisis, which engendered the arrival of some half a million Iraqi to the Turkish frontier.