A B S T R A C T Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hot... more A B S T R A C T Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hotly contested policy issue in most parts of the world. In Turkey the disputes concerning these rights have grown since 2002, when a conservative government assumed power. Analyzing how both governmental and civil society actors have discussed and framed reproductive policies primarily in reference to religion since the ascension of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party; AKP), this article focuses on debates that took place in 2012 about abortion and caesarean birth. The critical discourse and frame analysis, based on online speeches and media articles of these actors from November 2002 through 2014, reveal a remarkable diversity both in the interpretation of Islamic teachings and in a group of actors with similar ideological orientation. The article concludes by arguing for the need to move beyond the Islamic versus secular divide and to denaturalize and dehomogeni...
JMEWS • Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies • 13:2 • July 2017
DOI 10.1215/15525864-3861279
Re... more JMEWS • Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies • 13:2 • July 2017 DOI 10.1215/15525864-3861279 Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hotly contested policy issue in most parts of the world. In Turkey, the disputes concerning these rights have grown since 2002, when a conservative government took power. This paper analyzes how both governmental and civil society actors discuss and frame reproductive policies primarily in reference to religion since AKP's coming to power, focusing specifically on debates about abortion and caesarean that took place in 2012. Our critical discourse and frame analysis is based on online speeches and media articles of these actors from November 2002 to the end of 2014. It reveals a remarkable diversity both in the interpretation of Islamic teachings and within a group of actors with similar ideological orientation. We conclude by arguing for the need to move beyond the Islamic/secular divide and to denaturalize and homogenize the role of religion in the public sphere.
A B S T R A C T Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hot... more A B S T R A C T Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hotly contested policy issue in most parts of the world. In Turkey the disputes concerning these rights have grown since 2002, when a conservative government assumed power. Analyzing how both governmental and civil society actors have discussed and framed reproductive policies primarily in reference to religion since the ascension of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party; AKP), this article focuses on debates that took place in 2012 about abortion and caesarean birth. The critical discourse and frame analysis, based on online speeches and media articles of these actors from November 2002 through 2014, reveal a remarkable diversity both in the interpretation of Islamic teachings and in a group of actors with similar ideological orientation. The article concludes by arguing for the need to move beyond the Islamic versus secular divide and to denaturalize and dehomogenize the role of religion in the public sphere. K E Y W O R D S reproductive rights, religion, Turkey, Islam versus secular divide, public debates R eproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain one of the most hotly contested policy issues in most parts of the world. In Turkey, the debates over these rights have grown since 2002, when a conservative government led by the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party; AKP) assumed power. This article analyzes the discourses and framings of policies regarding these rights by governmental and civil society (CS) actors at the individual and collective levels. It focuses on the ruling party's recent attempts to ban abortion and to reduce the number of caesarean births, as well as on the CS responses to these policy changes.
By gathering 35 local scholars, experts, and civil society activists specialized in racism and hu... more By gathering 35 local scholars, experts, and civil society activists specialized in racism and human rights, the fifth edition of the European Islamophobia Report addresses a still timely and politically important issue. All 32 country reports included in this book follow a unique structure that is convenient, first, for comparing countries and, second, for selected readings on a particular topic such as politics, em- ployment, or education with regard to Islamophobia across Europe. The present report investigates in detail the underlying dynamics that directly or indirectly support the rise of anti-Muslim racism in Europe. This extends from Islamophobic state- ments spread in national media to laws and policies that restrain the fundamental rights of European Muslim citizens and threaten the whole of society. As a result, the European Islamophobia Report 2019 discusses the impact of anti-Muslim racism on human rights, multiculturalism, and the state of law in Europe. This fifth edition of our report highlights how European societies are progressively over- whelmed by the Islamophobic discourse of the “Great Replacement” and other far-right conspiracy theories. The 32 country reports demonstrate how governments and main- stream media participate in reproducing such discourses that put the fundamental rights of millions of European citizens in jeopardy and how one can counteract these developments. This compendium of useful insights and data aims to provide European policy-makers, institutions, and NGOs with recommendations on how to tackle anti-Muslim racism in Europe seriously.
The book is the product of several years of work, language learning, reading of Turkish and other... more The book is the product of several years of work, language learning, reading of Turkish and other literature, and above all becoming familiar with Turkish society, history, and people. The author met primarily with women and came to know their views, lives, practices, actions, and thoughts. In this respect the book also represents a novelty for Slovenia since it provides a new insight into contemporary Turkey, which is a country marked by experiences of the past and expectations for the future, and especially by its inhabitants, both men and women. The author undertakes an in-depth analysis of many scientific studies, presents them critically, and adds to them her own views of contemporary life in Turkey. In particular, she analyzes the different views and interpretations of women, and by placing them on a realistic empirical footing also critically lays them bare. Women are often an object, exploited in ideological battles among different political factions, and are therefore many times themselves lacking a voice in the interpretation of their own roles. The author presents the critical views of women themselves, thereby unveiling the critical potential of plural life in Turkey.
A B S T R A C T Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hot... more A B S T R A C T Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hotly contested policy issue in most parts of the world. In Turkey the disputes concerning these rights have grown since 2002, when a conservative government assumed power. Analyzing how both governmental and civil society actors have discussed and framed reproductive policies primarily in reference to religion since the ascension of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party; AKP), this article focuses on debates that took place in 2012 about abortion and caesarean birth. The critical discourse and frame analysis, based on online speeches and media articles of these actors from November 2002 through 2014, reveal a remarkable diversity both in the interpretation of Islamic teachings and in a group of actors with similar ideological orientation. The article concludes by arguing for the need to move beyond the Islamic versus secular divide and to denaturalize and dehomogeni...
JMEWS • Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies • 13:2 • July 2017
DOI 10.1215/15525864-3861279
Re... more JMEWS • Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies • 13:2 • July 2017 DOI 10.1215/15525864-3861279 Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hotly contested policy issue in most parts of the world. In Turkey, the disputes concerning these rights have grown since 2002, when a conservative government took power. This paper analyzes how both governmental and civil society actors discuss and frame reproductive policies primarily in reference to religion since AKP's coming to power, focusing specifically on debates about abortion and caesarean that took place in 2012. Our critical discourse and frame analysis is based on online speeches and media articles of these actors from November 2002 to the end of 2014. It reveals a remarkable diversity both in the interpretation of Islamic teachings and within a group of actors with similar ideological orientation. We conclude by arguing for the need to move beyond the Islamic/secular divide and to denaturalize and homogenize the role of religion in the public sphere.
A B S T R A C T Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hot... more A B S T R A C T Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hotly contested policy issue in most parts of the world. In Turkey the disputes concerning these rights have grown since 2002, when a conservative government assumed power. Analyzing how both governmental and civil society actors have discussed and framed reproductive policies primarily in reference to religion since the ascension of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party; AKP), this article focuses on debates that took place in 2012 about abortion and caesarean birth. The critical discourse and frame analysis, based on online speeches and media articles of these actors from November 2002 through 2014, reveal a remarkable diversity both in the interpretation of Islamic teachings and in a group of actors with similar ideological orientation. The article concludes by arguing for the need to move beyond the Islamic versus secular divide and to denaturalize and dehomogenize the role of religion in the public sphere. K E Y W O R D S reproductive rights, religion, Turkey, Islam versus secular divide, public debates R eproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain one of the most hotly contested policy issues in most parts of the world. In Turkey, the debates over these rights have grown since 2002, when a conservative government led by the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party; AKP) assumed power. This article analyzes the discourses and framings of policies regarding these rights by governmental and civil society (CS) actors at the individual and collective levels. It focuses on the ruling party's recent attempts to ban abortion and to reduce the number of caesarean births, as well as on the CS responses to these policy changes.
By gathering 35 local scholars, experts, and civil society activists specialized in racism and hu... more By gathering 35 local scholars, experts, and civil society activists specialized in racism and human rights, the fifth edition of the European Islamophobia Report addresses a still timely and politically important issue. All 32 country reports included in this book follow a unique structure that is convenient, first, for comparing countries and, second, for selected readings on a particular topic such as politics, em- ployment, or education with regard to Islamophobia across Europe. The present report investigates in detail the underlying dynamics that directly or indirectly support the rise of anti-Muslim racism in Europe. This extends from Islamophobic state- ments spread in national media to laws and policies that restrain the fundamental rights of European Muslim citizens and threaten the whole of society. As a result, the European Islamophobia Report 2019 discusses the impact of anti-Muslim racism on human rights, multiculturalism, and the state of law in Europe. This fifth edition of our report highlights how European societies are progressively over- whelmed by the Islamophobic discourse of the “Great Replacement” and other far-right conspiracy theories. The 32 country reports demonstrate how governments and main- stream media participate in reproducing such discourses that put the fundamental rights of millions of European citizens in jeopardy and how one can counteract these developments. This compendium of useful insights and data aims to provide European policy-makers, institutions, and NGOs with recommendations on how to tackle anti-Muslim racism in Europe seriously.
The book is the product of several years of work, language learning, reading of Turkish and other... more The book is the product of several years of work, language learning, reading of Turkish and other literature, and above all becoming familiar with Turkish society, history, and people. The author met primarily with women and came to know their views, lives, practices, actions, and thoughts. In this respect the book also represents a novelty for Slovenia since it provides a new insight into contemporary Turkey, which is a country marked by experiences of the past and expectations for the future, and especially by its inhabitants, both men and women. The author undertakes an in-depth analysis of many scientific studies, presents them critically, and adds to them her own views of contemporary life in Turkey. In particular, she analyzes the different views and interpretations of women, and by placing them on a realistic empirical footing also critically lays them bare. Women are often an object, exploited in ideological battles among different political factions, and are therefore many times themselves lacking a voice in the interpretation of their own roles. The author presents the critical views of women themselves, thereby unveiling the critical potential of plural life in Turkey.
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DOI 10.1215/15525864-3861279
Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hotly contested policy issue in most parts of the world. In Turkey, the disputes concerning these rights have grown since 2002, when a conservative government took power. This paper analyzes how both governmental and civil society actors discuss and frame reproductive policies primarily in reference to religion since AKP's coming to power, focusing specifically on debates about abortion and caesarean that took place in 2012. Our critical discourse and frame analysis is based on online speeches and media articles of these actors from November 2002 to the end of 2014. It reveals a remarkable diversity both in the interpretation of Islamic teachings and within a group of actors with similar ideological orientation. We conclude by arguing for the need to move beyond the Islamic/secular divide and to denaturalize and homogenize the role of religion in the public sphere.
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The present report investigates in detail the underlying dynamics that directly or indirectly support the rise of anti-Muslim racism in Europe. This extends from Islamophobic state- ments spread in national media to laws and policies that restrain the fundamental rights of European Muslim citizens and threaten the whole of society. As a result, the European Islamophobia Report 2019 discusses the impact of anti-Muslim racism on human rights, multiculturalism, and the state of law in Europe.
This fifth edition of our report highlights how European societies are progressively over- whelmed by the Islamophobic discourse of the “Great Replacement” and other far-right conspiracy theories. The 32 country reports demonstrate how governments and main- stream media participate in reproducing such discourses that put the fundamental rights of millions of European citizens in jeopardy and how one can counteract these developments.
This compendium of useful insights and data aims to provide European policy-makers, institutions, and NGOs with recommendations on how to tackle anti-Muslim racism in Europe seriously.
DOI 10.1215/15525864-3861279
Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hotly contested policy issue in most parts of the world. In Turkey, the disputes concerning these rights have grown since 2002, when a conservative government took power. This paper analyzes how both governmental and civil society actors discuss and frame reproductive policies primarily in reference to religion since AKP's coming to power, focusing specifically on debates about abortion and caesarean that took place in 2012. Our critical discourse and frame analysis is based on online speeches and media articles of these actors from November 2002 to the end of 2014. It reveals a remarkable diversity both in the interpretation of Islamic teachings and within a group of actors with similar ideological orientation. We conclude by arguing for the need to move beyond the Islamic/secular divide and to denaturalize and homogenize the role of religion in the public sphere.
The present report investigates in detail the underlying dynamics that directly or indirectly support the rise of anti-Muslim racism in Europe. This extends from Islamophobic state- ments spread in national media to laws and policies that restrain the fundamental rights of European Muslim citizens and threaten the whole of society. As a result, the European Islamophobia Report 2019 discusses the impact of anti-Muslim racism on human rights, multiculturalism, and the state of law in Europe.
This fifth edition of our report highlights how European societies are progressively over- whelmed by the Islamophobic discourse of the “Great Replacement” and other far-right conspiracy theories. The 32 country reports demonstrate how governments and main- stream media participate in reproducing such discourses that put the fundamental rights of millions of European citizens in jeopardy and how one can counteract these developments.
This compendium of useful insights and data aims to provide European policy-makers, institutions, and NGOs with recommendations on how to tackle anti-Muslim racism in Europe seriously.