The variety of anti-gender alliances and democratic backsliding in Turkey: fault lines around opposition to “gender ideology” and their political implications

D Unal - International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the politics of knowledge production and the affective politics of rising
anti-genderism in civil society in contemporary Turkey with a focus on two main points:(1) …

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 …

The translation of moral panic into misogynist e-bile: the case of Turkish singer Gülşen

H Ural, H Eslen-Ziya - Feminist Media Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we examine a recent incident involving Gülşen, a Turkish singer who was
brutally attacked on Twitter (now X), and demonstrate how moral panics translate into …

Justifying authoritarian practices: epistemic governance in two opposite interventionist policies on women's attire in Iran's pre-and post-revolution 1979

A Barjasteh - International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
How do authoritarian actors seek to justify their interventionist gendered policies? The study
bridges the authoritarian governmentality scholarship with Epistemic Governance theory to …

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 …

İdeolojik Söylemler ve Kadın Hakları: İstanbul Sözleşmesi Örneği

Ş Akın - Necmettin Erbakan University School of Law Review - dergipark.org.tr
İstanbul Sözleşmesinin imzalanmasının ardından özellikle Doğu Avrupa ülkelerinin bir
kısmında ciddi tartışmalar yaşanmıştır. Bu tartışmaların dikkat çekici tarafı, sözleşmenin …