Browsing Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi / Political Science and Public Administration by Publisher "Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd"
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Alevis and Alevism in the Changing Context of Turkish Politics: The Justice and Development Party's Alevi Opening
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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
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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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Breaking the rules in interactive media design education
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2009)In today's interactive media design it is difficult for a designer to create aesthetic innovations and to break free from ordinariness. The most important factor limiting interactive media design aesthetics is that education seems to be more focused on following traditional rules of interaction design rather than innovative approaches. These rules limit creativity and often relegate design students to producing ordinary interface solutions. This is especially burdensome for us as teachers. In order ...
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Determinants of young people's civic and political participation in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)This special section provides a timely reflection on current debates that are of extreme relevance in order to gain a better understanding of the concepts of citizenship and active citizenship in Turkey by looking at the determinants of civic and political participation at the patterns of political and civic mobilization and at the orientations of political behaviour. Its originality stands on the specific focus on young people in comparison to other age groups. The different papers remark upon ...
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Foreign policy during 2011 parliamentary elections in Turkey: both an ıssue and non-issue
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012)This article focuses on the foreign policy sections of 2011 election manifestos of the Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party) (AKP) the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People's Party) (CHP) the Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (Nationalist Movement Party) MHP and the Emek Demokrasi ve Ozgurluk Bloku (Labor Democracy and Freedom Bloc) (EDOB) the pre-election Bars ve Demokrasi Partisi (Peace and Democracy Party) (BDP). Foreign policy is both an issue and a non-issue for Turkish ...
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Gender and the Wage Gap in Turkish Academia
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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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Motherhood Citizenship and Rights: Illegal Abortions in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019)
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Shelters For Women Survivors Of Domestic Violence: A View From Turkey
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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
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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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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)
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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 membership process has necessitated democratization in civil-military relations
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Turkey's new dynamics in domestic and foreign policy
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010)
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Waves of feminism in Turkey: Kemalist Islamist and Kurdish women's movements in an era of globalization
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010)
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Women's Property Rights in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014)Abstract This article takes Turkey as a case study exploring marital and inheritance regimes with regard to their impact on women and their ability to protect women's property rights. The aim of the study is to bring to light the workings of the legal system that regulate the acquisition of property and to scrutinize the gap between the law and its practice in Turkish society. By taking this approach the article does not only focus on laws but also on how these laws are adopted by society. Thus ...
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Youth activists and occupygezi: patterns of social change in public policy and in civic and political activism in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)The research puzzle that our paper focuses on is the struggle of youth organizations to have their voice heard in public policy processes. We examine the implications of occupygezi in establishing or not a new relationship with the political domain and policy makers in Turkey. By drawing on a policy analysis framework this paper looks at whether occupygezi opened up new windows of opportunities for social and political change for youth activists in Turkey. In doing so we rely upon the results of ...