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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
(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 ...
A new China: Media portrayal of Chinese mega-cities
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2015)
During the last two decades China has started to leave its closed-door policies in the international arena behind and has shown signs of participating in the global economy. Politically and economically China has been ...
How Do Women Receive Inheritance? The Processes of Turkish Women's Inclusion and Exclusion from Property
(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 ...
Feminists' dilemma-with or without the state? Violence against women and women's shelters in Turkey
(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 ...
Women's Access to Property: A Comparative Study on Islamic and Kemalist Women in Turkey
(Wiley, 2017)
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 ...
Border Crossings between Georgia and Turkey: The Sarp Land Border Gate
(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 ...
Abortion services at hospitals in Istanbul
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
Objective: Despite the existence of a liberal law on abortion in Turkey there is growing evidence that actually securing an abortion in Istanbul may prove difficult. This study aimed to determine whether or not state ...
Youth activists and occupygezi: patterns of social change in public policy and in civic and political activism in Turkey
(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 ...
Land of Diverse Migrations: Challenges of Emigration and Immigration in Turkey
(Homer Academic Publ House, 2009)
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Prayer bead gestures and television: A case study on cultural inspirations for interaction art education
(MIT Press Journals, 2009)
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 ...