Browsing by Author "Toktaş, Şule"
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Alevis and Alevism in the Changing Context of Turkish Politics: The Justice and Development Party's Alevi Opening
Authors:Soner, Bayram Ali; Toktaş, Şule
Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011)The Justice and Development Party (JDP Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi) has launched a rapprochement policy toward the Alevis. The JDP's Alevi Opening has presented a unique case in Turkey's latest identity politics not only because Alevi claims for the first time came to be involved in political processes for official recognition and accommodation but also because the process was handled by a political party which is regarded to have retained Islamist roots in Sunni interpretation. This article explores ...
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Border Crossings between Georgia and Turkey: The Sarp Land Border Gate
Authors:Toktaş, Şule; Çelik, Nihat
Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)The Sarp land border gate between Turkey and Georgia has become Turkey's gateway to the East in recent years. With a large number of individuals crossing every day it is also a labour gate where irregular Georgian immigrants cross the border for work in Turkey. In general border policies are constructed and reconstructed in a dynamic process in which economic security ethnopolitical geopolitical and cultural paradigms interact. The aim of this paper is to observe the complementary and conflicting ...
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Competing frameworks of Islamic law and secular civil law in Turkey: A case study on women's property and inheritance practices
The article stems from empirical research conducted with a group of women living in Istanbul who have conservative life styles bounded by an Islamic worldview. It attempts to illuminate the negotiation and contestation between the official civil law and Islamic law. The findings demonstrate that women inherit and bequeath property in a social setting where their gender roles are defined by their adherence to Islam. We argue that in Turkey women's inheritance practices are not determined solely in ...
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Competing frameworks of Islamic law and secular civil law in Turkey: A case study on women's property and inheritance practices
The article stems from empirical research conducted with a group of women living in Istanbul who have conservative life styles bounded by an Islamic worldview. It attempts to illuminate the negotiation and contestation between the official civil law and Islamic law. The findings demonstrate that women inherit and bequeath property in a social setting where their gender roles are defined by their adherence to Islam. We argue that in Turkey women's inheritance practices are not determined solely in ...
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Does migration contribute to women's empowerment? Portrait of urban Turkey and Istanbul
Authors:Eryar, Değer; Tekgüç, Hasan; Toktaş, Şule
Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019)This article empirically investigates the impact of internal migration on women's empowerment in urban areas of Turkey. Based on data from a nationally representative household survey we find that migration exerts a positive impact in urban settings through improvements in educational attainment and labor market outcomes. Migration contributes to women's empowerment by raising their education levels and lowering the gap in schooling between men and women. Migration also allows migrants both men ...
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Family migration from Turkey to Germany
Considering that family migration has become an important phenomenon and studies about family migration has increased in number, this study aims to analyze family migration from Turkey to Germany. Turkish communities in Germany (including first, second, third and subsequent generations) is a very special group due to its volume and scope, and the migration flows from Turkey to Germany have had significant impacts upon the communities of both countries. The importance of this study comes from its ...
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Feminists' dilemma-with or without the state? Violence against women and women's shelters in Turkey
This article aims to describe the achievements of the women's movement in the struggle against domestic violence in Turkey and the points of contention between the state and feminists regarding this issue. Our goal in analyzing the Turkish case of violence against women is to reflect on how women's organizations work with the state; what they demand from it; and how they respond to the complex situations and dilemmas of state funded women's shelters. The article is based on field research; we used ...
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Gender and the Wage Gap in Turkish Academia
Authors:Ucal, Meltem Şengün; O'Neil, Mary Lou; Toktaş, Şule
Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)Turkey maintains one of the lowest female labour force participation rates in Europe but also boasts an above average number of female professors. Turkey is well above the European average (15 per cent) with approximately 28 per cent of full professorships being occupied by women. Despite these seemingly positive indications do men and women in Turkish academia earn the same wages? This study explores whether or not there exists a gendered pay gap in Turkish academia. Using data collected from a ...
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How Do Women Receive Inheritance? The Processes of Turkish Women's Inclusion and Exclusion from Property
This article employs Turkey as a case study to explore the relationship between property ownership inheritance and women's empowerment. In Turkey as in much of the world men dominate ownership of property. This is despite the fact that women have had equal rights to own and inherit property since 1926. With the establishment of the Republic in 1923 came a series of reforms one of which replaced Islamic Sharia law with a secular civil law that was based on the Swiss Civil Code. The new law among ...
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How do women receive inheritance? The processes of Turkish women’s inclusion and exclusion from property
This article employs Turkey as a case study to explore the relationship between property ownership, inheritance, and women’s empowerment. In Turkey, as in much of the world, men dominate ownership of property. This is despite the fact that women have had equal rights to own and inherit property since 1926. With the establishment of the Republic in 1923 came a series of reforms, one of which replaced Islamic Sharia law with a secular civil law that was based on the Swiss Civil Code. The new law, ...
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International migration and Turkey-Germany relations: The diplomacy of the refugee deal
This study will address the EU-Turkey negotiations with the help of two level game by focusing particularly on domestic factors and their possible influences on governments in both Germany and Turkey. These domestic factors can be seen as a open-door policy of Merkel and the hung parliament in Turkey. From this perspective, the refugee deal and negotiations involves one of the fundamental foreign policy instruments: diplomacy. In order to clarify the deal in detail, bilateral talks and negotiations ...
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National security culture in Turkey: a qualitative study on think tanks
This article examines the role that think tanks have played in the formulation of national security and a culture of security through field research conducted on fourteen think tanks located in Istanbul and Ankara. In addition to participant observation at the think tanks twenty-five in-depth interviews were conducted with administrators and specialists. The findings revealed that in terms of their strategic attitudes about national security in Turkey there are three groups of think tanks: critical ...
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A review of theoretical discussions on terrorism / Terörizm üzerine kuramsal tartışmalarının bir incelemesi
Terörizmin siyasal amaçlara ulaşmada etkili bir yöntem olup olmadığı sorusu terörizm çalışmalarında devam eden ve ihtilaflı bir tartışmadır. Öncü bilim adamları bu tartışmayı daha önce incelendiyse de 11 Eylül Saldırıları tartışmaları yeniden canlandırdı ve "terörizm etkili bir yöntem midir?" sorusu tartışmaların merkezine geldi. 11 Eylül sonrası artan terörle mücadele stratejileri, terörizmin ne zaman, nasıl ve hangi koşullarda etkili olduğunu anlamayı her zamankinden daha fazla ihtiyaç duyuyor. ...
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Shelters For Women Survivors Of Domestic Violence: A View From Turkey
Authors:Toktaş, Şule; Diner, Çağla
Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)
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Smuggling and trafficking in Turkey: an analysis of EU-Turkey cooperation in combating transnational organized crime
Authors:Toktaş, Şule; Selimoglu, Hande
Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012)Since the 1990s there has been a global proliferation of transnational organized crime (TOC). Turkey as a transit site between the East and the West has been one of the routes through which organized crime groups transport illicit goods in collaboration with other networks of crime. This paper investigates TOC in Turkey and maps out Turkey's role as a transit country in smuggling and trafficking. The paper also deals with Turkey's contribution to international efforts in combating TOC in light of ...
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Smuggling and Trafficking in Turkey: An Analysis of EU-Turkey Cooperation in Combating Transnational Organized Crime
Since the 1990s, there has been a global proliferation of transnational organized crime (TOC). Turkey, as a transit site between the East and the West, has been one of the routes through which organized crime groups transport illicit goods in collaboration with other networks of crime. This paper investigates TOC in Turkey and maps out Turkey's role as a transit country in smuggling and trafficking. The paper also deals with Turkey's contribution to international efforts in combating TOC in light ...
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The EU and minority rights in Turkey
Describe the development of minority rights in Turkey in light of the European Union accession process. They conclude that Turkey initiated several reforms that were necessary for EU membership but failed to alter its established “minority regime,” which recognizes as minorities the non-Muslim Armenian, Jewish and Greek communities and excludes other groups from the minority category.
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The Turkish Military's Autonomy JDP Rule and the EU Reform Process in the 2000s: An Assessment of the Turkish Version of Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DECAF)
This article tackles the question of Europeanization in Turkey's civil-military relations and the extent to which the EU has served as an anchor in the civilian control over the Turkish Armed Forces. We argue that the EU membership process has necessitated democratization in civil-military relations