Concerns regarding security, freedom, and income drive their urge to leave and migrate to another country. Among young people who identify as opponents, strong emotions of dissatisfaction and a decreasing sense of solidarity stimulate sentiments of leaving Turkey.

When asked if she would like to migrate, Aylin replied: “I am very sorry for the answer I will give to this question. I feel sad because, yes, I would like to live abroad… I used to think about how many of us can escape and get rid of the problems in the country. I mean, if three out of ten people leave, the remaining seven of us will stay in our country and suffer. We should be together. We should speak the truth. We should fight for the truth. Those who don’t understand us will leave. We will stay. This country is ours. It’s our country. I am the place’s youth, you know… Oh, and by the way, here is where my family and I call home. I thought, I will change this place, we will change it. We will all overcome something. We will put our hands under a stone, lift that stone, and clean this place. But it doesn’t work.