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Article Citation - WoS: 21Citation - Scopus: 20"it Was as If Society Didn't Want a Woman To Get an Abortion": a Qualitative Study in Istanbul Turkey(Elsevier Science Inc, 2017) MacFarlane, Katrina A.; O'Neil, Mary Lou; Tekdemir, Deniz; Foster, Angel M.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 abortion legislation. As a result of public outcry and protests the law was not enacted but media reports suggest that barriers to abortion access have since worsened. Objectives: We aimed to conduct a qualitative study exploring women's recent abortion experiences in Istanbul Turkey. Study design: In 2015 we conducted 14 semi-structured in-depth interviews with women aged 18 or older who had obtained abortion care in Istanbul on/after January 1 2009. We employed a multimodal recruitment strategy and analyzed these interviews for content and themes using deductive and inductive techniques. Results: Women reported on a total of 19 abortions. Although abortion care is available in private facilities only one public hospital provides abortion services without restriction as to reason. Women who had multiple abortions in different facility types described quality of care more positively in the private sector. Unmarried women considered their marital status when making the decision to seek an abortion and reported challenges obtaining comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services. All participants were familiar with the Turkish government's antiabortion discourse and believed that this was reflective of an overarching desire to restrict women's rights. Conclusion: Public abortion services in Istanbul are currently limited and private abortion services are accessible but relatively expensive to obtain. Recent antiabortion political rhetoric appears to have negatively impacted access and service quality. Implications: This is the first qualitative study exploring women's experiences obtaining abortion services in Turkey since the proposed abortion restriction in 2012. Further research exploring the experiences of unmarried women and abortion accessibility in other regions of the country is warranted. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 2The Opportunity Space of Overlapping Trade Regimes: Turkey the Customs Union and Ttip(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016) Long, CatherineThe Republic of Turkey (RoT) is closely observing negotiations of the first three mega-regional preferential trade agreements. Of greatest concern to the Republic is the US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) intended to establish the standards for preferential regimes beyond ambitious next generation free trade areas (FTAs). The Republic's primary concern is TTIP's potential impact on the Turkish economy given interaction with the RoT-EU Customs Union (CU). This interaction reflects the problem of outdated trade agreements' overlap with the spaghetti bowls of next generation and now mega-regional agreements. Although immediate Turkish TTIP inclusion is unlikely TTIP triggered a critical juncture for the Republic given the agreement's potential interaction with the CU's outdated features and hub-and-spoke structure. This juncture provides the Republic with strategic leverage to pursue the CU's review and possible revision. The RoT's strategic sequencing of its CU review with TTIP engagement may prove advantageous by altering its structural relationship with its hub and primary economic anchor of the EU as well as facilitating its entry into ambitious mega-regional agreements and contributing to its EU accession process. It also highlights the way in which states may strategically consolidate their particular cases of overlapping preferential trade agreements (PTAs).Book 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: 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.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: 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.Book Part Citation - WoS: 11Linguistic Human Rights and the Rights of Kurds(Univ Pennsylvania Press, 2007) O'Neil, Mary Lou[Abstract Not Available]Editorial Turkey Facing East: Islam Modernity and Foreign Policy(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2015) Yanık, Lerna K.[Abstract Not Available]Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 8Of 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: 5Inter-Asian (post-)neoliberalism? Adoption Disjuncture and Transgression(Brill Academic Publishers, 2015) Akçalı, Emel; Yanık, Lerna K.; Hung, Ho-Fung[Abstract Not Available]Book Part Europeanization, Public Sphere, and Active Citizenship(Palgrave, 2017) Bee, Cristiano[Abstract Not Available]Article Citation - WoS: 61Citation - 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.Book Part Citation - WoS: 1Turkey in Europe, Europe in Turkey: History, Elites, and the Media(Palgrave, 2015) Soysal, Levent; Özçürümez, Saime; Diner, Çağla[Abstract Not Available]Book Part Citation - WoS: 2The Gezi Movement Under a Connective Action Framework: Enhancing New Forms of Citizenship Via Social Media(Palgrave, 2017) Chrona, Stavroula; Bee, Cristiano[Abstract Not Available]Book International Gender for Excellence in Research Conference Proceedings Part 2: Selected Papers and Abstracts June 10-11, 2023(Nordic Swan Ecolabel, 2023) Selma Değirmenci; Lucia Amaranta Thompson; Tomas Brage; Sara Goodman; Mary Lou O'neilThis book is one of the outcomes of the Horizon 2020 EU project Gender for Excellence in Research (GenderEx). This project has promoted the awareness of gender amongst researchers and the application of gender theory across a range of disciplines. The present book consists of the proceedings from the Second International Gender for Excellence in Research Conference, in which research projects from a variety of disciplines were presented, including social sciences, humanities, engineering and physical sciences. The research demonstrates how gender theory can contribute to expanding scientific knowledge. This project also appeals to the turn in academia towards interdisciplinarity by challenging the ways in which academic knowledge is produced. The editors of this book would like to thank all of the conference participants, the staff of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Research Group, Kadir Has University, Istanbul and all the members of the GenderEx Team, for their contributions to the Second Gender for Excellence in Research Conference. A special thanks to the gendersensitive language editor Liz Sourbut, and to Jonas Palm and his colleagues at the Media Tryck printing office of Lund University. Lucia Amaranta Thompson, PhD Candidate, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden Tomas Brage, Division of Mathematical Physics, Dept of Physics, Lund University, Sweden Selma Değirmenci, GenderEx Project Manager, Dr, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Research Group, Kadir Has University, Turkey Sara Goodman, Retired Lecturer, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden Mary Lou O’Neil, GenderEx Project Director, Professor, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Research Group, Kadir Has University, TurkeyEditorial 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 Liberalism: a Review of the Literature(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2015) Yanık, Lerna K.This article reviews liberalism as one of the theories of International Relations. This review-will be presented in three sections. In the first section the article will review the historical and philosophical origins of the liberal thought. This will be followed by the introduction of important works in a historical order that helped liberal theory to distinguish itself conceptually theoretically and methodologically from the rest of the field. In the final section in lieu of a conclusion the current state of affairs in liberal theory from theoretical and practical perspectives will be presented. This review underscores the fact that liberalism as a political theory has contributed to the development of liberalism as an International Relations theory yet over the years liberalism has managed to create its own place by developing methodologically and conceptually.Article Constructions of European Identity: Debates and Discourses on Turkey and the Euhoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire Ve New York, Ny, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Isbn 978-0(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi, 2013) Düzgit Aydın, Senem[Abstract Not Available]Book Part Editorial Citation - WoS: 6Determinants of Young People's Civic and Political Participation in Turkey(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017) Bee, Cristiano; Kaya, AyhanThis 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 the importance that the reframing of the notions of citizenship and active citizenship have in the Turkish context along with the determinants that make this remark more relevant than ever.
