the Curious Case of Turkey
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Politics and Governance
- Magazine Year
- 2018
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Asli Aksoy, Hürcan
- Thesaurus
- conservatisme, democratie, vrouwenbewegingen, vrouwenorganisaties, Turkije, 21e eeuw
- Description
- The article examines the gendered strategies of four groups of organized women (feminist, Kurdish, Islamist, and Kemalist women’s organizations) engaged in strengthening women’s rights and gender equality. It first questions how, and to what extent, organized women engendered democratization process and then sheds lights on the shift in their strategies to respond to the increasingly authoritarian and conservative Islamist political agenda of the ruling Justice and Development Party.