The authors would like to thank all representatives of the civil society organisations, including all members of the Refugee Council of Turkey and other national and international organisations, who generously gave their time to be interviewed for this research. They are also grateful to Dr Basak Kale, Dr Kemal Kirişci and Dr Jeff Crisp for their diligent and thorough peer reviewing of this paper and to Sorcha O’Callaghan and Victoria Metcalfe-Hough for their careful reading of earlier drafts. We also thank Selman Salim Keskin for his research assistance, in conducting interviews with government officials in Turkey. Finally, we thank Katie Forsythe and Hannah Bass for editing and production and Catherine Langdon and Laura Mertsching for facilitating the project as a whole.