This article examines the instrumentalization of women's rights and the transformation of the
gender rights regime in the context of democratic backsliding in Turkey. I show how the …

In Queer in Translation, Evren Savcı analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT
political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under …

Contemporary democracy in multiple countries has been under assault from what has been
variously called right-wing populism, authoritarian populism, cultural majoritarianism, new …

Over the past two decades, constructivist International Relations (IR) scholars have
produced substantial knowledge on the diffusion and adoption of global norms …

After years of progress in terms of gender and sexual rights, since 2012 Europe is facing a
so-called gender backlash–opposition directed to issues related to reproductive policies and …

Today Turkey is one of the few Muslim-majority countries in which same-sex sexual acts,
counternormative sexual identities, and expressions of gender nonconformism are not …

The ideal of equality between men and women, which was seemingly embraced by Turkish
modernization in the early Republican era, never became a reality. In fact, Turkish …

Politics plays a crucial role in the construction of masculinities. This article examines the
workings of political masculinities in Turkey in two categories: conventional party-related …

Studying changes in the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) politics within the general
context of the long-lasting history of neoliberalism-neoconservatism in Turkey, this paper …

High rates of gender-based violence and sexist political rhetoric are central features of
contemporary Turkey. This article explores the complex relationship between the two by …