Article detail · 2022
Europeanization and De-Europeanization of Turkey's Gender Equality Policy: The Case of the Istanbul Convention
Journal
JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIESISSN 0021-9886
The ISSN points to another catalog journal; the name is from the YÖKSİS record.
- Year
- 2022
- Type
- article
Data source split
- YÖKSİS YÖKSİS article record
- YÖKSİS venue JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES
- Catalog match (ISSN) Journal of Common Market Studies
- OpenAlex OpenAlex enrichment (abstract, citations, topics)
Abstract
OpenAlex · English
Abstract Despite taking significant steps to comply with the Copenhagen criteria after receiving the candidate‐country status in 1999, Turkey gradually moved away from European norms, values, and policy demands in various policy areas. This study explores (de)‐Europeanization of Turkey's gender equality policy in terms of both legislative changes and the shifts observed in domestic actors' discourses over the past decade, focusing particularly on the debates surrounding the Istanbul Convention. It argues that the fading credibility of the EU conditionality coupled with domestic political dynamics led to the weakening of the EU as a reference point in domestic debates, where policies ensuring gender equality were reversed by pro‐family conservative discourses and policies. The study points to domestic factors, including the country's authoritarian turn, and international factors such as the stalling EU‐Turkey relations coupled with the backlash against gender equality in EU member states as the key dimensions of de‐Europeanization of gender equality policy.
Topics
Citations
OpenAlex cited_by_count. Not a WoS or Scopus citation count; those sources have no separate column here.
50 citations
OpenAlex cited_by_count (cache / database)
15 publications in the local catalog that cite this work (OpenAlex reference match; not the full global list).
- Turkey's withdrawal from Istanbul Convention: international human rights regime vis-à-vis authoritarian survival 2024
- Turkey’s withdrawal from Istanbul Convention: international human rights regime vis-à-vis authoritarian survival 2023
- Battle for the European Union in the periphery: contestation dynamics and domestic debates 2023
- Contestation of the global norm against violence against women in Turkey 2024
- Turkish civil society, normative power Europe, and appeals to restore the EU’s transformative power 2025
- Capturing Womens Standpoint in EU–Turkey Studies: The Evolution of Gendered Publication and Citation Patterns 2024
- Civil Society and Public Policy in Turkey 2023
- Perceptions of male scholars toward gender: reconsidering sustainable patriarchy in Turkish academia 2024
- A decade of dichotomy: understanding Turkey’s changing stance on the Istanbul Convention for combating violence against women 2024
- Contesting the norm contester: responses to Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention 2025