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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 ...
Assessing the importance of international tourism for the Turkish economy: a social accounting matrix analysis
(Elsevier Science, 2012)
The international tourism sector has grown rapidly in Turkey since the 1980s and Turkey ranks among the top ten countries in terms of tourist arrivals and receipts. Previous studies on international tourism in Turkey are ...
Future of resource sharing in Turkey: can open access be an alternative?
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the current status of open access initiatives in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach - The author has conducted extensive research on the subject which is ...
Determinants of Investment in Turkey: A Firm-Level Investigation
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019)
In this article we analyze the financing constraints-investment link for the case of Turkey between 1996 and 2013. As different from the existing studies on Turkey we use a more comprehensive data set that includes both ...
Declining Poverty and Inequality in Turkey: The Effect of Social Assistance and Home Ownership
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018)
Social assistance has become prominent in combating poverty in developing countries and has also contributed to the popularity and election success of governments implementing it. In this paper I employ household surveys ...
"It was as if society didn't want a woman to get an abortion": a qualitative study in Istanbul Turkey
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2017)
Introduction: In 1983 abortion without restriction as to reason was legalized in Turkey. However at an international conference in 2012 the Prime Minister condemned abortion and announced his intent to draft restrictive ...
The availability of abortion at state hospitals in Turkey: A national study
(Elsevier, 2017)
Introduction: Abortion in Turkey has been legal since 1983 and remains so today. Despite this in 2012 the Prime Minister declared that in his opinion abortion was murder. Since then there has been growing evidence that ...
Greece's Strategy and Perceptions towards Turkey: The End of Consensus and the Return of History?
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2018)
The paper focuses on the impact of the crisis on the Greek public debate on perception of and strategy towards Turkey. The analysis is placed in the context of a strategic consensus that was ruptured during the crisis and ...
Women's Tertiary Education Masks the Gender Wage Gap in Turkey
(Springer, 2017)
This paper investigates the gender wage gap for full-time formal sector employees disaggregated by education level. The gap between the labor force participation rate of women with tertiary education and those with lower ...
Personality Motivation and Math Achievement Among Turkish Students: Evidence from PISA Data
(Sage Publications Inc, 2017)
Using the Turkish portion of the Programme for International Student Assessment dataset (N=4848