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    An inquiry into the linkage among nationalizing policies, democratization, and ethno-nationalist conflict: the Kurdish case in Turkey
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012) N/A; Department of International Relations; Mousseau, Demet Yalçın; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A
    This article analyzes the effects of nationalizing policies of the state, processes of democratization, and uneven socio-economic development on the rise of Kurdish ethno-mobilization led by the PKK terrorist organization since the 1980s in Turkey. Three features of the Turkish modernization context are identified as conducive for the rise and continuation of Kurdish ethno-mobilization: a) a nation-building autocratic state that resisted granting cultural rights and recognition for the Kurds; b) democratization with the exclusion of ethnic politics and rights; c) economic regional inequality that coincided with the regional distribution of the Kurdish population. It is argued that autocratic policies of the state during nation-building accompanied the development of an illiberal democracy and intolerance for cultural pluralism. These aspects of Turkish democracy seem to be incompatible with both the liberal and consociational models of democracy that accommodate ethnicity within multiculturalism.
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    Capitalism, Jacobinism and international relations: revisiting Turkish modernity
    (Cambridge Univ Press, 2024)  ; Selamet, Kadir;  ; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities;  
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    Comparing public attitudes on EU membership in candidate countries: the cases of Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey from 2004 to 2011
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016) Department of International Relations; N/A; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Glüpker-Kesebir, Gitta; Faculty Member; PhD Student; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 125588; N/A
    Past enlargements of the European Union (EU) have demonstrated that public attitudes on European integration can influence the course of accession processes. Beyond the literature on public EU support in member states and former candidates, the dynamics that shape public attitudes on EU membership within recent candidate countries have not been systematically examined. Analysing nine Eurobarometer (EB) surveys from 2004 to 2011, we argue that evaluations of EU membership in Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey are shaped by utilitarian considerations, belief in various political institutions as well as the fear of losing national identity. The economic crisis of 2008 has changed public opinion towards EU membership in all three countries, but Turkey appears to have been affected the most compared to Croatia and Macedonia.
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    Courage and Fear
    (Cambridge Univ Press, 2021) Department of History; Amar, Tarık Youssef Cyril; Other; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 294014
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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; Kazanoğlu, Nazlı; Teaching Faculty; Department of Sociology; 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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    Erosion of Central Bank independence in Turkey
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) Demiralp, Seda; Department of Economics; Demiralp, Selva; Faculty Member; Department of Economics; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 42533
    This study provides empirical analysis to show increasing pressures over the Central Bank of Turkey (CBT) throughout the past decade where the CBT gives into such pressures, despite the Central Bank Law, which ensures tool independence. The study suggests that the relations between the government and the CBT reflect recent political changes where the government increased its control over state institutions, following rising costs of losing office. However, this trend not only has economic costs such as a restricted capacity to achieve price stability and sustainable growth but it also limits horizontal accountability of state institutions.
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    France and Algeria: a history of decolonization and transformation
    (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2002) Department of International Relations; Dillman, Bradford L.; N/A; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A
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    Governance crises and resilience of authoritarian populism: 2023 Turkish elections from the perspective of hirschman's 'exit, voice, and loyalty'
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2024) Kutlay, Mustafa; Department of International Relations; Öniş, Ziya; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics
    The May 2023 elections in Turkey are puzzling because public support for President Erdogan did not erode despite political-economic failures of considerable magnitude. The economy was ailing, the government's performance in containing natural disasters was dismal, and oscillations in foreign policy were perplexing. Yet, Erdogan managed to win elections once again, giving him the mandate to continue ruling the country over the next five years. What explains this political outcome in the face of 'multiple governance crises'? We adopt Albert O. Hirschman's 'exit, voice, and loyalty' framework to explain the multiple but interrelated sources of the resilience of authoritarian populism in Turkey. We suggest the 'exit, voice, and loyalty' equilibrium in the 2023 Turkish elections requires an integrated analysis along two dimensions, each interacting with and mutually reinforcing the other: the economy-identity nexus and the domestic-external nexus.
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    Great catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the shadow of genocide
    (Cambridge Univ Press, 2018) Department of History; Polatel, Mehmet; Researcher; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
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    Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd) Department of Mathematics; Çezik, Onur; Master Student; Department of Mathematics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
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