Gender Politics and Representation

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Abstract The article examines the relationship between women in society and the use of force by the state in the international arena. The arguments build on a conception of power relationships found in gender studies and feminist theories, and focus on how the internal distribution of political power at a societal lev…

• AIDA JUST

Under the rule of the AKP, gender politics draws a contradictory picture. Although significant legal advances have been achieved in harmony with international conventions, gender equality has not been fully attained. With the conjunction of the loss of momentum in the EU membership drive and the alliance between the p…

• HURİYE GÖKTEN DOĞANGÜN

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• HATİCE AYŞE HOŞGÖR

This article deals with the politics of care and the changing features of familialism in Turkey under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). While sacred familialism, which is built on the role of women as devoted care providers and blessed mothers, is evident in the AKP’s gender politics, care has recei…

• BAŞAK AKKAN

Celebrating the World Women's Day and initiating a conference for promoting Turkey's integration to Europe on the one hand, and discussing the discrimination against women on the ground of human rights and even harbouring the radical protest from left-wing as well as the Islamist women on the other, the women auxiliar…

• FATMA TÜTÜNCÜ

Abstract Within the last few years, “Kurdish cinema” has emerged as a unique discursive subject in Turkey. Subsequent to and in line with efforts to unify Kurdish cultural production in diaspora, Kurdish intellectuals have endeavored to define and frame the substance of Kurdish cinema as an orienting framework for the…

While LGBT studies have been problematizing normative categories of sexuality primarily in Western cultures, the status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals in non-Western societies remains understudied. This study examines the political attitudes toward LGBT individuals in Turkish society and…

• CEYLAN ENGİN MANSTRETTA

Even if protecting the traditional family structure has been a permanent feature of political debates in Turkey, the family has become the target of public policies immediately after the Justice and Development Party came to power. The new pro-family social policy agenda of the party does not simply aim to protect the…

• ZAFER YILMAZ

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• FATMA UMUT BEŞPINAR AKGÜNER

This contribution explores the promotion of women's entrepreneurial activities in Turkey. Using participant observation and semi-structured interviews conducted during 2011–12 in two civil-society organizations that run programs fostering women's entrepreneurship, this study shows how neoliberal ideologies interact wi…

Abstract This article discusses the current social policy reform process in Turkey from a gender perspective. Until now, social security and labour regulations have provided women with special benefits and protections. Depending on the particular case, these gender‐specific policies can be interpreted differently – as…

• AZER KILIÇ KABADAYI