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 …

This article is an endeavour to explore the changing networking strategies of women's non-
governmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey over the last decade. We delineate the shifts …

Civil society is often seen as male, structured in a way that excludes women from public and
political life. Much feminist scholarship sees civil society and feminism as incompatible a …

This research problematizes the contested nature of the global norm diffusion by focusing on
intra-group rivalries and fragmentations shaping local responses (often reactionary and …

During the early years of the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development
Party, AKP), Turkey was seen as a burgeoning democratic power propped up by economic …

Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, Turkey witnessed an era of reform generally
known as the era of 'Europeanisation'. Since the late 2000s, it has experienced a de …

The Third Wave democratic transitions in central and eastern Europe and Latin America
have created high expectations among the scholarly community and international donors …

This study focuses on the fragmentations based on exclusionary identity politics within the
women's movement in Turkey. Through in-depth interviews I conducted with women activists …

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) …

1 The United Nations in its General Recommendation defines gender-based violence as
“violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women …