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.

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

Bu çalışma, İstanbul'daki seçilmiş yerel belediyelerin sosyal medya kullanımını karşılaştırmalı bir bakış açısıyla incelemektedir. Günümüzde yeni bir iletişim aracı olarak sosyal medya, siyasette öne çıkarak siyasi partileri ve yerel temsilcilerini sosyal medya hesabı kullanmaya mecbur bırakmaktadır. Esas olarak sosyal medya araçlarına atfedilen Web 2.0 teknolojileri, vatandaşları daha bilinçli hale getirerek, onları siyasi gelişmelerin bir parçası olmaya daha istekli hale getirdi. Yerel politikacılar, ...

This article uses a comparative approach to discuss women's access to property using evidence collected from field research conducted on two distinct communities of Istanbul: one secular and one Islamic. The two groups of women possess distinctly different views of the world and how it is organized. This is particularly the case concerning gender where secular women put forth a view rooted in the sameness of the genders where the Islamic women were clear in their commitment to the idea of difference. ...

Despite a long history of women's movements and policy-making efforts to ameliorate women's status in Turkey, the number and quality of women's shelters are far from sufficient. This article aims to reveal the shortcomings of shelter policy through the lens of those "at work" on this important social issue using a qualitative research design. Forty semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with municipal administrative officials, state social workers, and employees of civil society ...