Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü Koleksiyonu
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Article Citation - WoS: 41Citation - Scopus: 52Alevis 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: 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: 4Citation - Scopus: 15Competing 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.Article Citation - WoS: 25Citation - Scopus: 41The Eu and Minority Rights in Turkey(Wiley, 2009) Toktaş, Şule; Aras, Bülent[Abstract Not Available]Article Citation - WoS: 7Feminists' Dilemma-With or Without the State? Violence Against Women and Women's Shelters in Turkey(Ewha Womans Univ Press, 2011) Toktaş, Şule; Diner, ÇağlaThis 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 analyzing the Turkish case of violence against women is to reflect on how women's organizations work with the state; what they demand from it; and how they respond to the complex situations and dilemmas of state funded women's shelters. The article is based on field research; we used techniques of participant observation at annual congresses organized by women's organizations specialized in fighting violence against women and in-depth interviews with feminist activists, volunteers and social workers at women's shelters. It describes the experiences of feminists in Turkey, who are in the position of receiving support from and working closely with the state in running women's shelters.Article Citation - WoS: 15Citation - Scopus: 13Gender and the Wage Gap in Turkish Academia(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015) Ucal, Meltem Şengün; O'Neil, Mary Lou; Toktaş, ŞuleTurkey 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 survey of more than 700 Turkish academics we observed that there is a gendered wage gap that disadvantages women but only at the highest pay levels found at private universities indicating the existence of intra-class inequality where men and women despite occupying the same class position are compensated differently.Article Citation - WoS: 7How Do Women Receive Inheritance? the Processes of Turkish Women's Inclusion and Exclusion From Property(SOOKMYUNG WOMENS UNIV, 2013) Toktaş, Şule; O'Neil, Mary LouThis 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 the fact that women have had equal rights to own and inherit property since 1926. With the establishment of the Republic in 1923 came a series of reforms one of which replaced Islamic Sharia law with a secular civil law that was based on the Swiss Civil Code. The new law among other things guaranteed equal rights of property and inheritance regardless of gender. In an attempt to understand the tangled relationship between property and women's empowerment we conducted interviews regarding inheritance practices among ideologically secular wealthy women in Istanbul. For these women and their families the logic of wealth distribution is deeply informed by a commitment to equality between children with little regard for gender. Even in those cases where strict equality in terms of sameness was not employed the goal was for an overall balance and fairness between recipients. Despite the fact that inheritance law provides for equality most of the families employed interuivos transferBook Review Land of Diverse Migrations: Challenges of Emigration and Immigration in Turkey(Homer Academic Publ House, 2009) Toktaş, Şule[Abstract Not Available]Article Citation - WoS: 6National Security Culture in Turkey: a Qualitative Study on Think Tanks(Ahmet Yesevi University, 2012) Toktaş, Şule; Aras, BülentThis article examines the role that think tanks have played in the formulation of national security and a culture of security through field research conducted on fourteen think tanks located in Istanbul and Ankara. In addition to participant observation at the think tanks twenty-five in-depth interviews were conducted with administrators and specialists. The findings revealed that in terms of their strategic attitudes about national security in Turkey there are three groups of think tanks: critical think tanks middle-position think tanks and congruent think tanks.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 3Shelters for Women Survivors of Domestic Violence: a View From Turkey(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015) Toktaş, Şule; Diner, Çağla[Abstract Not Available]Article Citation - WoS: 10Citation - Scopus: 13Smuggling and Trafficking in Turkey: an Analysis of Eu-Turkey Cooperation in Combating Transnational Organized Crime(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012) Toktaş, Şule; Selimoglu, HandeSince 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 its EU membership process. The European Commission's annual reports on Turkey's progress towards EU membership that highlight the achievements as well as the shortcomings of Turkey in combating TOC are presented. The paper argues that Turkey has introduced successful reforms and expanded its institutional capacities due to the progress it has achieved in the specific area of combating TOC as evidenced by the EU progress reports.Editorial Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Turkey's New Dynamics in Domestic and Foreign Policy(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010) Aras, Bülent; Toktaş, Şule[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: 105Citation - Scopus: 126Waves of Feminism in Turkey: Kemalist Islamist and Kurdish Women's Movements in an Era of Globalization(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010) Diner, Çağla; Toktaş, Şule[Abstract Not Available]Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 4Women's Access To Property: a Comparative Study on Islamic and Kemalist Women in Turkey(Wiley, 2017) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Toktaş, ŞuleThis 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. These attitudes toward the equality and difference of the genders structures the relations of these women to property and the process of inheritance.Article 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.
