Nowadays, the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, to which Turkey is also a party, constitutes the basis of refugee law. In the 1st article of the 1951 Convention, “refugee” is defined and the definition includes a limitation on history as “events that took place before 1 January 1951…” In Article 1/B-1(a) of the Convention, the contracting states are granted the right to impose restrictions in terms of geographical space, and it is stated that the "refugee" status can only be limited to "events occurring in Europe" before 1 January 1951. The adoption of the Geneva Convention with the limitation of time and geographical space led to the grievances of many people because the criteria and events determining the “refugee” status also continued to occur after 1 January 1951. As a result of this harsh reality being taken into account, the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees was signed, and the temporal limitation was removed. When Turkey became a party to the 1951 Geneva Convention, it used its right to impose restrictions granted to the contracting states and implemented the geographical limitation along with the temporal limitation in terms of the recognition of refugee status. However, although the temporal limitation lost its importance after Turkey signed the Protocol in 1968, the geographical limitation continues to be applied today. However, this situation has brought about discussions on the removing of the geographical limitation applied in Turkish refugee law and has even become the subject of a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Due to the subject’s topicality, the application of the geographical limitation and the issue of the removing of this application will be addressed in our study.