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Activism and Womens NGOs in Turkey

Activism and Womens NGOs in Turkey

Civil Society, Feminism and Politics

Asuman zgr Keysan

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This book is based on research conducted for my PhD, awarded by the University of Strathclyde in 2015. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor Dr Catherine Eschle for her invaluable guidance throughout all stages of my research. Without her guidance, ongoing support, criticism and encouragement this book would not have been possible. I am also indebted to Prof. Laura Cram, Dr Wolfgang Rudig and Dr Mark Shephard who sacrificed their valuable time for my research and gave me stimulating advice. I would like to include a special note of thanks to Prof. Nadje Al-Ali and Dr Sebastian Dellepiane Avellaneda for their valuable comments on my research.

This research was made possible by a Scottish Overseas Research Student Awards Scheme (SORSAS). I am grateful to the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) for the scholarship which enabled me to undertake this research at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the women I interviewed in Turkey and thank them for trusting me, showing willingness to share their experiences with me and making my fieldwork enjoyable. Without them, this book would not have been possible.

I would like to thank the editorial team of I.B. Tauris Publishers, especially Sophie Rudland for all of her assistance and confidence in my work. Also, the feedback from anonymous reviewers from I.B. Tauris Publishers was invaluable.

My friends, Dr Emel Uzun, Dr Feyza Bhatti, Dr Rosalind Greig, Dr Kirsty Henderson, Dr Kirtsy Alexander and Dr Andrew Judge, who accompanied me during my research, deserve all my love for their support. Their feedback on my work and their friendship were invaluable. A special word of gratitude is due to Dr Gkten Doangn, Dr Zelal zdemir, Dr Burcu entrk, Dr zge zko and my colleagues from the Office of Sponsored Projects at Middle East Technical University, who supported me in this process of book-writing.

Last but not least, I would like to thank my partner, Ozan Keysan, for his encouragement, love and belief in my success. I would also like to express my gratitude to my parents for their endless love and support.

AGD	Anatolian Youth Association
AKP	Justice and Development Party
AKDER	Womens Rights Organization against Discrimination
AMARG	AMARG Association
ANAP	Motherland Party
AP	Justice Party
BDP	Peace and Democracy Party
BKP	Capital City Womens Platform Association
CEDAW	Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women
CEE	Central and Eastern Europe
CSO	Civil society organization
CDA	Critical Discourse Analysis
CHP	Republican Peoples Party
KD	Republican Womens Association
DEHAP	Democratic Peoples Party
DEP	Democracy Party
DKASUM	Diyarbakr Research and Implementation Center for Womens Affairs
DSK	The Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey
DP	Democrat Party
DKH	Democratic Free Womens Movement
DMO	Democratic mass organization
DTP	Democratic Society Party
DYP	True Path Party
EU	European Union
FCDA	Feminist critical discourse analysis
FP	Virtue Party
HADEP	Peoples Democracy Party
HEP	Peoples Labour Party
KADEM	The Women and Democracy Association
KA-DER	Association for the Support and Training of Women Candidates
KAMER	Womens Centre
KCK	Kurdish Communities Union
KESK	Confederation of Public Workers Union
Mazlumder	Association for Human Rights and Solidarity for the Oppressed
MEDA	Mediterranean Economic Development Area
MENA	Middle East and Northern Africa
MGK	National Security Council
MHP	National Movement Party
MNP	National Order Party
NGO	Nongovernmental organizations
zgr-Der	The Association for Free Thought and Educational Rights
PDA	Poststructuralist discourse analysis
PKK	Kurdistan Workers Party
RP	Welfare Party
SELS	SELS Womens Association
SFK	Socialist Feminist Collective
SIDA	Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
TEMA	The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion
TESK	Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen
TSK	Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations
TOBB	The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey
TSK	Turkish Armed Forces
TKD	Turkish Association of University Women
TRK-	Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions
TKB	Turkish Womens Union
UN	United Nations
US	Flying Broom
VAKAD	Van Womens Association
WB	World Bank
WTO	World Trade Organization

This book critically examines the debate on the relationship between civil society and feminism and aims to identify to what extent and in what ways voices of women activists contribute to the meaning(s) of civil society and/or produce alternative understandings to the dominant neoliberal and gendered view of civil society. In order to throw light on this debate, this book particularly focuses on the empirical case of ten womens organizations in Turkey and discusses how women activists from these groups approach the concept and practices of civil society and whether and how they produce alternative ways of thinking to this dominant view.

This book is a response to two current political struggles over the theory and practice of civil society. The first has to do with the contemporary dominance of a neoliberal version and its contestation. Civil society has long been an ambiguous and contested term, as is evident in the existence of diverse traditions in the civil society literature such as liberal, Marxist, Gramscian and Habermasian. However, since the global revival of the concept in the 1980s, the meaning of the concept has become more fixed. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, civil society was perceived by both scholars and policymakers as a way of overcoming a range of problems associated with authoritarianism and the crisis of the welfare state. Policymakers, scholars and NGO activists alike have interpreted the revival of civil society as a return to associational life, enabling engagement with the state and fostering solidarity in the public sphere (Chandhoke,

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