Louıse Şimşek, Mary
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Mary, Louise Simsek
Louıse Şimşek, MARY
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MARY LOUISE ŞIMŞEK
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Mary LOUISE ŞIMŞEK
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O'Neil, Mary Lou
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MARY LOUISE ŞIMŞEK
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Louise Simsek, Mary
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Mary LOUISE ŞIMŞEK
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Political Science and International Relations
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Article Identity and the Availability of Emergency Contraception From Pharmacies in Istanbul(2021) Oneıl, Mary Lou; Fidan, Bahar AldanmazEmergency contraception (EC) has been and remains available in Turkey without prescription since 2002. This study attempted to determine the availability of emergency contraception from pharmacies in Istanbul, Turkey and whether the identity of the purchaser had any impact on availability. More specifically, we sought to understand if young women feel shamed or denied access to EC. This study employed a mystery patient/shopper approach where mystery patients attempted to purchase emergency contraception from a random sample of 352 pharmacies in Istanbul. Mystery shoppers, ages 18-22, were trained and provided a standard scenario and identity. The identities included: conservative/ religious female; secular/modern female; and male. After each pharmacy visit, the mystery patients recorded the details of their attempts to purchase EC. In 95.4% of visits mystery shoppers were able to purchase EC. Despite the availability of several types of EC, little choice was given to shoppers. Male mystery shoppers were given more choice of EC than their female counterparts and were more often able to purchase the less expensive form of EC. In the majority of transactions, pharmacists offered no medical instructions or recommendations. EC is widely available from pharmacies in Istanbul but lack of choice and information from pharmacists result in a less than ideal health care experience.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: 5Citation - Scopus: 4The Availability of Emergency Contraception From Family Health Centers in Turkey(Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2022) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Aldanmaz, Bahar; Altuntas, DenizReproductive health care, including contraception, is a fundamental aspect of any public health care system and it is important to reduce barriers to access to all forms of contraception, including emergency contraception. In recent years, the rhetoric of pronatalism in Turkey has come to dominate and raises questions about the availability of reproductive health care services, in particular contraception, from state run facilities. This study aimed to determine the availability of dedicated emergency contraception (EC) from government run Family Health Centers (FHCs) in Turkey. In 2019, a team of trained researchers called a random sample of 583 FHCs located in the largest cities in twelve regions across Turkey asking for dedicated EC. Dedicated EC is largely unavailable from government supported FHCs. Only 6.1% stated that they provided EC while 53.8% stated that it was not available and that they could provide no alternative. A further 28.3% declared that they could provide an alternative to dedicated EC that almost always consisted of oral contraceptives. We found statistically significant variations in response rate and availability among cities as well as the rate of referral to pharmacies. There is little access to EC from government sponsored health clinics designated to provide family planning services, which hinders access to an essential reproductive health care service that should be available to women everywhere.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Workplace Microaggressions Against LGBTI Plus Employees in Turkey: a Thematic Analysis of Environmental and Interpersonal Discrimination(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2025) Selen, Eser; O'Neil, Mary Lou; Ergun, ReydaPurposeThe current study aimed to determine the extent and scope of microaggressions in the workplace directed towards LGBTI+ employees in Turkey.Design/methodology/approachThe research used both quantitative and qualitative data based on 664 statements made by individuals in the "The Situation of LGBTI+ Employees in the Private and Public Sector in Turkey" survey conducted between 2015 and 2020 (n = 2,695). The quantitative data consist of frequencies and the qualitative data center on answers to nine open ended questions regarding LGBTI+ individuals' experiences of discrimination in the workplace. We employed the taxonomy proposed by Nadal et al. (2010) to determine which actions constituted microaggressions and the form they took. We also conducted a critical discourse analysis of the open-ended questions where individuals described their experiences of microaggressions.FindingsMicroaggressions directed at LGBTI+ employees are pervasive in Turkey. Microaggressions largely follow the taxonomy created by Nadal et al. (2010) although we did not find microaggressions in all of the taxonomy's categories. We found that microaggressions mostly take the form of phobic language and mockery followed by heteronormativity, exoticization and disapproval. Two further categories, othering and threatening behaviors, emerged from our data.Originality/valueThis study addresses a significant gap in the literature on workplace microaggressions against LGBTI+ individuals, particularly in non-Western contexts. To our knowledge, it is the first study of its kind conducted in a non-Western Muslim-majority country. The research uniquely captures and critically analyzes the lived experiences of LGBTI+ employees through their own narratives, examining how microaggressions manifest as discriminatory discourses in the workplace.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 - Scopus: 10Religion as a factor influencing turkish women's decisions to work(2013) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Bilgin, Mehmet HüseyinThis article uses survey data collected from more than 500 women in Istanbul to examine whether or not religion exerts an influence on women's decisions to work or not. Our work revealed that religion does not appear to have a direct impact on whether or not Turkish women choose to work. Rather the expectation that women fulfill their traditional roles as caregivers proves a greater obstacle for women who wish to enter the labor market. Religion, in the case of Turkey, Islam, can only be seen asan influence on Turkish women's work decisions to the extent that it supports "patriarchal mentalities" which define women first and foremost as mothers and caregiversArticle 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 The State Gives Me the Right Not to Do It: Reproductive Governance, Structural Violence and Barriers to Abortion Care in Türkiye(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2026) O'neil, Mary Lou; Gogus, Eylem Mercimek; Degirmenci, SelmaAbortion in T & uuml;rkiye is legal through ten weeks gestation without restriction as to reason, but it is often difficult to access. In recent years Turkey has undertaken an aggressive pronatalist politics of reproduction resulting in extensive reproductive governance that regulates reproductive health care in general and abortion access in specific. This research uses nationwide data collected in 2024 from public and private hospitals to ascertain the availability of abortion in T & uuml;rkiye. Currently, less than one third of hospitals report providing abortion care but this drops to just 5.1 % for public hospitals while 50.4 % of private hospitals offer abortion services. However, the lack of availability does not rely on simply denial but encompasses a multilayered system of barriers that restrict access. While some institutions simply stated that they do not perform abortions, many others cited varying obstacles that hindered their ability to provide such care. These included declarations that abortion is illegal, doctors' refusal to perform abortions, and use of gestational limits less than the ten weeks provided in law. Adding to these barriers is the lack of available information about abortion availability, the substantial distances required to travel to access care, and the price of abortion at private hospitals. By limiting abortion access, the state undermines individual autonomy and endangers the health and safety of pregnant people. In practice, legality offers little protection: the combination of institutional refusal, misinformation, geographic and financial hurdles, and political hostility makes abortion effectively inaccessible for many. T & uuml;rkiye's case illustrates how legal rights can be hollowed out by restrictive governance, leaving reproductive freedom precarious despite formal legality.Article Citation - WoS: 1Effects of Gender on Credit Card Usage Among University Students in Turkey(Academic Journals, 2011) Ucal, Meltem Şengün; O'Neil, Mary Lou; Cankaya, SerkanIn recent years much has been written about credit card usage among university students. Despite a vast number of studies little has been written about credit card usage among university students in developing countries. This research surveyed university students in Turkey in an attempt to understand their uses of credit cards. In particular we examined the impact of gender on credit card use. The literature on the impact of gender on credit card usage is a bit unsettled and this study seeks to add another dimension to the research in this area. Using both parametric and nonparametric measures we sought to isolate gender and tested whether or not it affects the ways that young people in Turkey use credit cards. The importance of this research centers on the portrait it provides of credit card usage among young people in a developing country as well as to pointing the factors that may influence future credit card use.Article Citation - WoS: 12Citation - Scopus: 12You Are What You Wear: Clothing/Appearance Laws and the Construction of the Public Citizen in Turkey(Berg Publ, 2010) O'Neil, Mary LouAs Turkey set its sights on modernization and Westernization in the early decades of the twentieth century, clothing reform took center stage. The state used clothing as a constitutive element in its establishment and continues to legislate appearance as a means to maintain its power and create a model public citizen that will support it. Today there exists an extensive regulatory regime on clothing and appearance in the public sphere, which induces those governed by it to dress in a "modern" fashion. An examination of these regulations reveals the deeply politicized nature of clothing in Turkey which is guided by the assumption that you are what you wear. While choice of clothing and appearance is neither entirely free nor fully prescribed, dress codes do further restrict already limited choices. Dress codes undermine the relationship thought to exist between individual belief and appearance. Dress codes, in the case of Turkey, are dictated by the state; therefore, the appearance of students and state employees does not necessarily represent their belief but that of the state. The Turkish state, through the use of dress codes, continues to try and produce "modern" citizens, meaning Western and secular.
