A decade of dichotomy: understanding Turkey's changing stance on the Istanbul Convention for combating violence against women

ÖF Köktaş, Ö Köseoğlu - South European Society and Politics, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Turkey, the first country to sign the Istanbul Convention, an international human rights treaty
on violence against women, also became the first to withdraw from it. This study investigates …

Sexuality securitized: how Russia's invasion of Ukraine reconfigures (anti-) LGBTQ politics in Eastern Europe

L Luciani, M Shevtsova - Journal of Gender Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines how the shifting security landscape following Russia's full-scale
invasion of Ukraine is reconfiguring (anti)-LGBTQ politics in Eastern Europe. Drawing on …

Political homophobia as a tool of creating crisis narratives and ontological insecurities in illiberal populist contexts: lessons from the 2023 elections in Turkey

D Unal - New Perspectives on Turkey, 2024 - cambridge.org
This article analyzes how the Justice and Development Party's (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi;
AKP) 2023 election propaganda utilized political homophobia as a populist tool to construct …

Sex workers, content creators, gig workers, or all of the above: the experiences of sex workers on OnlyFans in Turkey

DS Kadıoğlu, E Alparslan - Porn Studies, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
OnlyFans, a subscription-based platform that is mostly known for its inclusion of adult
content creators, has gained mainstream attention globally following the COVID-19 …