Turkey-Iran Border and Irregular Migration from a Geographical Perspective
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Abstract
The Turkey-Iran border, which is approximately 560 kilometers long and Turkey's second longest border after the Syrian border, has been at the forefront of irregular migration for many years. A mass of migrants, enters Turkey from here every year. This border is regarded as the most significant used by irregular migrants, mainly from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to enter Turkey and then reach Europe through migrant smugglers. Considering the characteristics of the border, the topographical structure, climate conditions, historical ties between the populations living on both sides of the border, socio-cultural interactions, and economic conditions are important dynamics that ensure the continuity of irregular migration. In this study, the political formation process, the role of geographical factors, and the socio-cultural structure of the border will be discussed. Then, the impact of the geographical structure of the border line on irregular migration will be examined. In addition, the profiles of migrants entering Turkey, the magnitude of the migration, and the actors of irregular migration, particularly smugglers, will be thoroughly investigated.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".