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.

The authors interactive design-art educators recount their experience in using cultural inspirations as part of student exercises. The authors found that although students proposed various design concepts drawing from the surrounding culture very few moved beyond experience design art. In order to remedy this situation without giving explicit direction the authors encouraged students to examine cultural habits and/or artifacts from their past or their current lives in the hope that this could ...

Türkiye’de ailelerin refah kavramlaştırmalarını öğrenmek ve de ailelerin refah düzeylerini saptamak amacıyla gerçekleştirilen bu calışma, nicel ve nitel veri derleme tekniklerinin birlikte kullanıldığı kapsamlı bir alan araştırması olarak tasarlanmış ve 2010 yılında gerçekleştirilmiştir.

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 ...

Much has been written about the neoliberal revolution that originated in the Northern countries in the 1970s and since then has spread to all countries in the world to a greater or lesser extent. The aim of this paper is to give an account of Turkey's relationship with neoliberalism between 1980 and 2001 which has been a rather troubled relationship. In this paper I argue that the neoliberal policies cannot be implemented in a state unless the class forces allow such an establishment. In spite of ...

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 ...

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 ...