Browsing by Author "Toktaş, Şule"

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 ...

Border Crossings between Georgia and Turkey: The Sarp Land Border Gate

Authors:Toktaş, Şule; Celik, 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 ...

Competing frameworks of Islamic law and secular civil law in Turkey: A case study on women's property and inheritance practices

Authors:Toktaş, Şule; O'Neil, Mary Lou
Publisher and Date:(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2015)

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 ...

Does migration contribute to women's empowerment? Portrait of urban Turkey and Istanbul

Authors:Eryar, Deger; 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 ...

Family migration from Turkey to Germany

Authors:Gürel, İrem
Publisher and Date:(Kadir Has University, 2019)

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Feminists' dilemma-with or without the state? Violence against women and women's shelters in Turkey

Authors:Toktaş, Şule; Diner, Cagla
Publisher and Date:(Ewha Womans Univ Press, 2011)

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 ...

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 ...

How Do Women Receive Inheritance? The Processes of Turkish Women's Inclusion and Exclusion from Property

Authors:Toktaş, Şule; O'Neil, Mary Lou
Publisher and Date:(SOOKMYUNG WOMENS UNIV, 2013)

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 ...

International migration and Turkey-Germany relations: The diplomacy of the refugee deal

Authors:Öcal, Ayşe Gül
Publisher and Date:(Kadir Has University, 2019)

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 ...

Land of Diverse Migrations: Challenges of Emigration and Immigration in Turkey

Authors:Toktaş, Şule
Publisher and Date:(Homer Academic Publ House, 2009)

National security culture in Turkey: a qualitative study on think tanks

Authors:Toktaş, Şule; Aras, Bülent
Publisher and Date:(Ahmet Yesevi University, 2012)

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 ...

A review of theoretical discussions on terrorism

Authors:Aykut, Mücahid
Publisher and Date:(Kadir Has University, 2019)

The question of whether terrorism is politically effective instrument is an ongoing and controversial debate in terrorism studies. Although pioneer scholars have examined this debate before, the September 11 Attacks have ...

Shelters For Women Survivors Of Domestic Violence: A View From Turkey

Authors:Toktaş, Şule; Diner, Cagla
Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)

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 ...

The EU and minority rights in Turkey

Authors:Toktaş, Şule; Aras, Bülent
Publisher and Date:(2009)

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 ...

The EU and Minority Rights in Turkey

Authors:Toktaş, Şule; Aras, Bülent
Publisher and Date:(Wiley, 2009)

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)

Authors:Toktaş, Şule; Kurt, Umit
Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010)

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 ...