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    De-democratization under the New Turkey? challenges for women's organizations
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022) Eslen Ziya, Hande; Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Kazanoğlu, Nazlı; Teaching Faculty; The Center for Gender Studies (KOÇ-KAM) / Koç Üniversitesi Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi (KOÇ-KAM); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
    This article is an endeavour to explore the changing networking strategies of women's non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey over the last decade. We delineate the shifts and changes during what we call thede-democratizationprocess where secular women's organizations face significant constraints and difficulties while networking and lobbying the government. Under these constrained conditions, yet, secular women's organizations make an exceptional effort to sustaining their lobbying activities and changing their networking strategies as well as partners. Relying on the related literature and 26 semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with activist members of these organizations with about a 15-year time difference, this paper contends that Turkish women's organizations under theNew Turkeyare forced to find alternative allies and adjust their velvet triangles of support. Though their strategies were similar in some ways, the type of partnerships formed and who these partners are changed from the first and second decade of the 2000s. Thus, the paper shows how the secular women's organizations adapt to new resources as they mobilize and how they shift away from employing the single target approach to double while changing their initial networking and collaboration partners.
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    The processes of integration and education the case of Syrian refugees and syrian refugee children in turkey
    (Routledge, 2018) Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Şimşek, Doğuş; Teaching Faculty; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 238422
    The Syrian migration is the second-largest mass movement of people in the world’s history that causes almost half of the Syrian population to be displaced since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in March 2011; half of the population affected by the Syrian conflict are children. Syrian children still face many barriers to attending schools in Turkey. Among 2.7 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, 835.000 of them are of school age, and 463.000 attend public schools and Syrian Temporary Education Centres (TECs). This chapter focuses on the state of Syrian refugee children in accessing education in Turkey, one that - I argue - both determines and is determined by the level of integration of the Syrian refugee community. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul and the border cities including Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Hatay, Kilis and Mardin, this chapter aims to contribute to the literature on integration of refugees by exploring the effects of Turkey’s integration policy on the lives of Syrian refugees and Syrian refugee children. It further discusses what needs to be done and how the integration of refugees and their children should be achieved in Turkey.
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    The processes of integration and education: the case of Syrian refugees and Syrian refugee children in Turkey
    (Taylor and Francis, 2018) Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Şimşek, Doğuş; Teaching Faculty; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 238422
    The Syrian migration is the second-largest mass movement of people in the world’s history that causes almost half of the Syrian population to be displaced since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in March 2011; half of the population affected by the Syrian conflict are children. Syrian children still face many barriers to attending schools in Turkey. Among 2.7 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, 835.000 of them are of school age, and 463.000 attend public schools and Syrian Temporary Education Centres (TECs). This chapter focuses on the state of Syrian refugee children in accessing education in Turkey, one that - I argue - both determines and is determined by the level of integration of the Syrian refugee community. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul and the border cities including Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Hatay, Kilis and Mardin, this chapter aims to contribute to the literature on integration of refugees by exploring the effects of Turkey’s integration policy on the lives of Syrian refugees and Syrian refugee children. It further discusses what needs to be done and how the integration of refugees and their children should be achieved in Turkey.