Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü Koleksiyonu
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Article Citation - WoS: 41Citation - Scopus: 50Alevis and Alevism in the Changing Context of Turkish Politics: the Justice and Development Party's Alevi Opening(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011) Soner, Bayram Ali; Toktaş, ŞuleThe 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 the JDP's Alevi Opening process and tries to explain the motivations behind the party's decision to incorporate the Alevi question in its political agenda. What is more the debate that the opening has caused is also under scrutiny with the positions and arguments held by the actors and the agencies involved in the process e. g. the Alevis (the secularist and the conservative wings) the General Directorate of Religious Affairs the National Security Council the JDP leadership and the Islamist intellectuals.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 10Being Seen - Headscarves and the Contestation of Public Space in Turkey(Sage Publications Ltd, 2008) O'Neil, Mary Lou[Abstract Not Available]Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 6Border Crossings Between Georgia and Turkey: the Sarp Land Border Gate(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017) Toktaş, Şule; Çelik, NihatThe 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 relationship and negotiation process between economic and security paradigms in particular with a focus on the perceptions of the officers of the border administration and state bureaucracy at the local level. To this end field research was carried out consisting of interviews with Turkish state officials responsible for immigration and border crossing in the Sarp gate region. The article sheds light on the interaction between various agencies actors and stakeholders in border policymaking at the regional level. It also elaborates on the profiles both of incoming immigrants employed as irregular workers and of deportees. The results of the qualitative study show that the dominance of the economic paradigm that underlies the main framework of Georgia-Turkey relations overrides security concerns between the two countries thus necessitating a more flexible implementation of laws. The field research illustrates that implementation of laws and regulations at the local level varies and while some groups of irregular immigrants are allowed to work others are not and what is more are deported.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 14Competing 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) Toktaş, Şule; O'Neil, Mary LouThe 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 between the official civil law and Islamic law. The findings demonstrate that women inherit and bequeath property in a social setting where their gender roles are defined by their adherence to Islam. We argue that in Turkey women's inheritance practices are not determined solely in accordance with the secular civil law but rather are the result of a complex and intertwined combination of legal sources where an Islamic worldview often leads to the adoption of Islamic law. In other words the application of the secular civil law in Turkey is limited by the common practice of Islamic law. Rather than follow the gender equality mandated by the civil law the inheritance practices of many Islamic women are constituted with a deference to some aspects of Islamic law creating a situation of legal pluralism in Turkey. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Editorial Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 2Conventional Versus Non-Conventional Political Participation in Turkey: Dimensions Means and Consequences Introduction(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017) Bee, Cristiano; Kaya, Ayhan[Abstract Not Available]Book Review The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) Yanık, Lerna K.[Abstract Not Available]Article Citation - Scopus: 4Entrenching Geopolitical Imaginations: Brand(ing) Turkey Through Orhan Pamuk(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2020) Yalkın, Çağrı; Yanık, Lerna K.This study focuses on how through consumers the market reproduces a discourse that aligns with the political and the cultural spheres. By drawing on fields of production and consumption we turn to how both Turkey as a nation-brand and Orhan Pamuk as a cultural producer are produced and consumed at the nexus of political and cultural fields. Based on the analysis of data comprising of interviews with Orhan Pamuk and Amazon consumer reviews of his work we argue that the consumers of Pamuk’s works duplicate and reiterate dualities that have come to represent Turkey. This highlights the role of cultural products as nation-brand makers and the markets as where arts and politics intersect. We suggest that cultural products serve as vehicles through which existing perceptions and real and perceived global political hierarchies are reproduced. © 2018 Springer Nature Limited.Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 13Foreign Policy During 2011 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey: Both an Issue and Non-Issue(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012) Yanık, Lerna K.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 electorate because although foreign policy issues have almost no impact on voters choices the parties still continue to devote space to foreign policy performances promises and projections in their election manifestos. The analysis of 2011 election manifestos reveals that the AKP primarily envisions a Turkey with more commonalities with the East than with the West but yet ranked Turkey's relations with Europe and the West higherArticle Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 2‘i Am Here’: Women Workers’ Experiences at the Former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul(Routledge, 2017) Selen, Eser; O'Neil, Mary LouThis study presents oral history research which investigated the experiences of surviving women workers from the former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul Turkey. For most of its history the factory was home to thousands of workers many of who were women and at times outnumbered men two to one. While the site is now known for the university that it houses photographs and archival records from the early twentieth century reveal the centrality of women in the process and production of tobacco and cigarettes until the factory completely shut down in 1995. Using oral history methods we recorded the memories of 17 women who worked in the factory. A multi-faceted analysis reveals the gendered nature of the space at the time as well as the importance of the factory as a place in the lives of these women. © 2017 Informa UK Limited trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Article Citation - WoS: 60Citation - Scopus: 66Market Power in Cee Banking Sectors and the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Efthyvoulou, Georgios; Yıldırım, CananThe aim of this study is to undertake an up-to-date assessment of market power in Central and Eastern European banking markets and explore how the global financial crisis has affected market power and what has been the impact of foreign ownership. Three main results emerge. First while there is some convergence in country-level market power during the pre-crisis period the onset of the global crisis has put an end to this process. Second bank-level market power appears to vary significantly with respect to ownership characteristics. Third asset quality and capitalization affect differently the margins in the pre-crisis and the crisis periods. While in the pre-crisis period the impacts are similar for all banks regardless of ownership status in the crisis period non-performing loans have a negative effect and capitalization a positive effect only for domestically-owned banks. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 7Of Celebrities and Landmarks: Space, State and the Making of "cosmopolitan" Turkey(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017) Yanık, Lerna K.This paper analyses the (re)production of Turkey's liminal-hybrid representations through a combination of sports and music celebrity interventions on a specific landmark. It shows that a country's representations can be reinforced and reaffirmed with the help of celebrities performing their talent on landmarks such as the Bosphorus Bridge and (in some cases) placing another landmark - Ortakoy Mosque - in the backdrop. Combined with the role of celebrities, these two landmarks that have come to symbolise Turkey's liminality and hybridity visually, in a very mundane manner, aim to add a cosmopolitan component, a banal one though, to the national identity. This further shows that national identity is not always made and shaped by the citizens of that country, but rather foreigners can actively contribute to certain elements of an identity. The paper also draws attention to the role of the states in the making of celebrity politics, refocusing the attention from politician celebrity interaction to state and celebrity interaction.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 11Selfish Vengeful and Full of Spite: the Representations of Women Who Have Abortions on Turkish Television(2013) O'Neil, Mary LouThis article analyses the portrayal of women who have abortions in four recent Turkish television series Gümü? A?k-i Memnu Hanimin Ç iftlig. i andÖyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki all of which appeared between 2005 and 2011. It is clear from the varying storylines of these melodramas that the depiction of women who have abortions on Turkish television is decidedly negative. The women who have abortions are seen as defying cultural expectations to place motherhood before all else. They are portrayed as cheating on their husbands having sex outside of marriage and prioritizing career over marriage and family. The negative portrayal of women who have abortions in Turkish soap operas perpetuates the discourse on Republican womanhood which prescribes motherhood as women's national duty and as being at the core of their identity. © 2013 Taylor and Francis.Book Review Turkey's Rise as an Emerging Power(Sage Publications Ltd, 2016) Yanık, Lerna K.[Abstract Not Available]Article Citation - WoS: 15Citation - Scopus: 33The 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)(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010) Toktaş, Şule; Kurt, UmitThis 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 relationsArticle Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 12Women's Property Rights in Turkey(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Toktaş, ŞuleAbstract 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 two levels of analysis-de jure and de facto-are utilized for an investigation of women's property rights and hence their social and economic status.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 9Women's Shelters in Turkey: a Qualitative Study on Shortcomings of Policy Making and Implementation(Sage Publications Inc, 2013) Diner, Çağla; Toktaş, ŞuleDespite 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 organizations that run shelters. The research findings reveal that there is a lack of effective authority that has the willpower to combat violence against women, and that it is difficult to keep shelters secure in a patriarchal society away from the male gaze. Furthermore, results indicate that there has been an erosion of social services provided by the state.Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 11Youth Activists and Occupygezi: Patterns of Social Change in Public Policy and in Civic and Political Activism in Turkey(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017) Bee, Cristiano; Chrona, StavroulaThe 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 a number of in-depth interviews conducted in 2015/16 in Turkey with representatives of youth organizations.
