IKV Secretary General Assoc. Prof. Çiğdem Nas participated in Medyascope Gündem program with Şükran Şençekiçer on 25 August 2022 and made statements regarding the Schengen visa issue. Touching upon the problems experienced in the Schengen visa process, Assoc. Prof. Nas stated that these problems stemmed from the increasing visa applications in the post-COVID-19 normalisation process, the increasing visa rejection rates due to protectionism and security-based understanding, and the changing perception towards Türkiye. Assoc. Prof. Nas stated that the visa liberalisation process, which started with the signing of the Türkiye-EU Readmission Agreement in 2013, accelerated with the Syrian refugee crisis in 2016 and that Türkiye fulfilled 66 of the 72 criteria foreseen to ensure visa liberalisation. However, the failure to meet the remaining criteria caused the EU reforms to slow down in Türkiye while the refugee crisis led to a more security-oriented environment and hindered progress in the visa process, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nas said.