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The rise and fall of Turkey’s soft power discourse

European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2016
Since the coming to power of the Justice and Development Party [Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP] in 2002, Turkish foreign policy has witnessed significant changes.
Yohanan Benhaim, Kerem Öktem
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Governing Through Criminal Selectivity and Lawfare: Non‐Democratic Politics to Entrench Authoritarian Populist Imagination

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
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La transformation des stratégies syndicales en Turquie sous le gouvernement du Parti de la Justice et du Développement (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) [PDF]

Cahiers Balkaniques, 2018
In this work, we have addressed the issue of precarity in the labour market in different sectors and its impact on the transformation of trade union strategies. We have highlighted the impact of authoritarian practices and neoliberal policies of the AKP government, in power since 2002.The reforms aimed to increase the competitiveness of certain ...
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Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 381-392, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
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Populism and policy capacity: Evidence from an opposition municipality in Istanbul

Public Administration and Development, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 123-134, May 2026.
Abstract Despite achievements in its conceptual rigor, policy capacity still represents a relatively depoliticized concept that fails to sufficiently consider the ways in which politics plays a role in its creation, mobilization, or decay. This article seeks to contribute to this debate by investigating the impact of populism on policy capacity, the ...
Ebru Ertugal, Faik Gür, İnan Sevinç
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Measuring the Turkish Welfare State: A Multidimensional Approach

Social Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 468-480, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article develops a multidimensional approach to capture the multiple dimensions of welfare states around the world. We know a lot about why we need to take the multidimensional character of welfare states seriously. There is, however, no consensus in the literature on which dimensions to focus on.
H. Tolga Bolukbasi, Kerem Gabriel Öktem
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Micropolitics of Secrecy: Traders' Enactments of Expertise After the Failed Military Coup in Turkey

Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Conducting ethnographic research in financial institutions is challenging because secrecy is pivotal for traders to maintain their expert image. It became more difficult in Turkey after the failed coup in 2016 as Turkish President Erdoğan increasingly weaponized conspiracies that are historically and politically rooted in Turkish society to ...
Deniz Coral‐Irwin
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Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Turkey| Framing the Alimony Debates in Turkey: Struggle Between Feminist and Antifeminist Discourses to Represent “Women’s Rights”

International Journal of Communication, 2020
In this article, I analyze two media campaigns that have defended opposite positions about the amendments on alimony legislation in Turkey. The alimony debates reveal ongoing struggles not just to redefine the meanings of feminism and women’s rights in ...
Esra Özcan
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Turkishness and Social Boundaries: Navigating Identity and Exclusion in the Social Relations Between the Local Community and Syrian Refugees in Ankara, Turkey

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 3, Page 292-304, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines the widespread impact of Turkishness, a concept ingrained since the establishment of the Republic, on political and daily interactions, and how it cultivates persistent discrimination against Syrian refugees. This study conceptualizes Turkishness not as an ideology but as a construct influenced by national identity and ...
Haci Cevik
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A developing country's perspective: Reforming insolvency laws to encourage their usage

International Insolvency Review, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 517-545, Winter 2025.
Abstract Opportunities in developing countries draw multinational companies, which include but are not limited to low‐cost labour and abundant raw materials. As with any enterprise in any part of the world, there is a risk of business failure when multinational companies operate in developing countries.
Phoebe Gatoto
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