Şule Toktas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 239628 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Şule Toktas |
| NOMBRES | Şule |
| APELLIDO | Toktas |
| FIRMA | TOKTAS Ş |
| AFILIACIONES | Kadir Has University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1332-2039 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 213 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Does migration contribute to women’s empowerment? Portrait of urban Turkey and Istanbul
This article empirically investigates the impact of internal migration on women’s empowerment in urban areas of Turkey. Based on data from a nationally representative household survey, we find that migration exerts a positive impact in urban settings through improvements in educational attainment and labor market outcomes. Migration contributes to women’s empowerment by raising their education levels and lowering the gap in schooling between men …
Border Crossings between Georgia and Turkey
The Sarp land border gate between Turkey and Georgia has become Turkey’s gateway to the East in recent years. With a large number of individuals crossing every day, it is also a labour gate, where irregular Georgian immigrants cross the border for work in Turkey. In general, border policies are constructed and reconstructed in a dynamic process in which economic, security, ethnopolitical, geopolitical and cultural paradigms interact. The aim of t…
Women's Access to Property
This article uses a comparative approach to discuss women's access to property using evidence collected from field research conducted on two distinct communities of Istanbul: one secular and one Islamic. The two groups of women possess distinctly different views of the world and how it is organized. This is particularly the case concerning gender where secular women put forth a view rooted in the sameness of the genders where the Islamic women we…
Gender and the Wage Gap in Turkish Academia
Turkey maintains one of the lowest female labour force participation rates in Europe, but also boasts an above average number of female professors. Turkey is well above the European average (15 per cent) with approximately 28 per cent of full professorships being occupied by women. Despite these seemingly positive indications, do men and women in Turkish academia earn the same wages? This study explores whether or not there exists a gendered pay …
Shelters for Women Survivors of Domestic Violence
Violence against women is a worldwide phenomenon, and while levels vary from country to country, comparatively Turkey has rather high rates of violence targeting women. One study noted that forty-t
Women's Property Rights in Turkey
This article takes Turkey as a case study, exploring marital and inheritance regimes with regard to their impact on women and their ability to protect women's property rights. The aim of the study is to bring to light the workings of the legal system that regulate the acquisition of property and to scrutinize the gap between the law and its practice in Turkish society. By taking this approach, the article does not only focus on laws but also on h…
Competing frameworks of Islamic law and secular civil law in Turkey
Women’s Shelters in Turkey
Despite a long history of women's movements and policy-making efforts to ameliorate women's status in Turkey, the number and quality of women's shelters are far from sufficient. This article aims to reveal the shortcomings of shelter policy through the lens of those "at work" on this important social issue using a qualitative research design. Forty semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with municipal administrative officials, state so…
How Do Women Receive Inheritance? The Processes of Turkish Women’s Inclusion and Exclusion from Property
This article employs Turkey as a case study to explore the relationship between property ownership, inheritance, and women’s empowerment. In Turkey, as in much of the world, men dominate ownership of property. This is despite the fact that women have had equal rights to own and inherit property since 1926. With the establishment of the Republic in 1923 came a series of reforms, one of which replaced Islamic Sharia law with a secular civil law tha…
Smuggling and Trafficking in Turkey
Since the 1990s, there has been a global proliferation of transnational organized crime (TOC). Turkey, as a transit site between the East and the West, has been one of the routes through which organized crime groups transport illicit goods in collaboration with other networks of crime. This paper investigates TOC in Turkey and maps out Turkey's role as a transit country in smuggling and trafficking. The paper also deals with Turkey's contribution…
Alevis and Alevism in the Changing Context of Turkish Politics
The Justice and Development Party (JDP, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) has launched a rapprochement policy toward the Alevis. The JDP's Alevi Opening has presented a unique case in Turkey's latest identity politics not only because Alevi claims, for the first time, came to be involved in political processes for official recognition and accommodation, but also because the process was handled by a political party which is regarded to have retained Isl…
Feminists' Dilemma—With or Without the State? Violence against Women and Women's Shelters in Turkey
This article aims to describe the achievements of the women's movement in the struggle against domestic violence in Turkey and the points of contention between the state and feminists regarding this issue. Our goal in analyzing the Turkish case of violence against women is to reflect on how women's organizations work with the state; what they demand from it; and how they respond to the complex situations and dilemmas of state funded women's shelt…
Turkey's new dynamics in domestic and foreign policy
Waves of feminism in Turkey
Women's movements in the West have followed a historical sequence from the suffragette movement in the late 19th century to contemporary emphases on differences and identity politics. Although ther
The Turkish Military’s Autonomy, JDP Rule and the EU Reform Process in the 2000s
This article tackles the question of Europeanization in Turkey’s civil‐military relations and the extent to which the EU has served as an anchor in the civilian control over the Turkish Armed Forces. We argue that the EU membership process has necessitated democratization in civil‐military relations; EU support was not sufficient for fully integrated democratic control of the armed forces (DECAF) as there are still problems in the democratization…
The EU and Minority Rights in Turkey
SULE TOKTAS is an associate professor of international relations at Kadir Has University. She has published Immigration to Turkey and various articles on international migration, women's issues, and ethnic and religious minorities in Turkey. BULENT ARAS is a professor of international relations at Istanbul Technical University. He has co-authored Syria and Afghanistan: Dilemmas of Security and Democracy and various articles on Turkish foreign pol…
A fghanistan's S ecurity
Establishing political authority and constructing a state instrument would increase trust, which would contribute to stability.1 The lack of political institutions necessary for stability encourages the interference of individuals and groups with "special" interests, at both the state and societal levels.2 Stability is not only a prerequisite for the development of the political process and security within the country; it is also a risk to securi…
Cultural Identity, Minority Position and Immigration
Turkey and Israel are two states founded in the first half of the twentieth century in the Middle East. They have different history and roots, yet they share some commonalities: both are rare examp
The politics of population in a nation-building process
Within the politics of nationalism and nation-building, the emigration of ethnic and religious minorities, whether voluntary or involuntary, appears to be a commonly occurring practice. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century, modern Turkey still carried the legacy of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious diversity in which its Armenian, Greek and Jewish communities had official minority status based upon the 1923 Treaty…
Al-Qaida, ‘war on terror’ and Turkey
The new wave of international terrorism gained strength in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, threatening not only the USA and its allies but also, as seen in the latest incidents, a significant part of the world. Continuing al-Qaida attacks signify the vulnerability and weakness of defence, security and intelligence systems in the face of the new international terror. The terror network has created an image of a postmodern virtual state. We argu…
Turkey's Roma
There are now many Roma populations in various countries, predominantly on the European continent. In accordance with this diversity in settlement places as well as living, Roma people have taken d
Perceptions of Anti‐Semitism among Turkish Jews
It is commonly believed that there is little or no anti‐Semitism in Turkey. For this reason, the Turkish Jewish community is considered to be fortunate. The 1942 Capital Tax, the September 6–7 Events in 1955, and even the Thrace Incidents of 1934, in which the Jews were the main targets of violence, are considered to be examples of discrimination against all non‐Muslim minorities in Turkey. This study investigates the validity of this optimistic …
The Conduct of Citizenship in the Case of Turkey's Jewish Minority
Contemporary liberal democracies confront governance problems elicited by the discord between the principles of equality and difference, and between the concepts of majority and minority. Citizenship came to be recognized as a vital governance tool in response to this challenge evidenced by growing academic and political interest in the concept. The basic precept that citizenship refers to is a constitutionality-based relationship between the ind…
Turkey's Jews and their immigration to Israel
Turkey, traditionally, is recognized as a ‘sending’ country in terms of international migration flows, and in the form of both labour migration and asylum seekers, it has sent out thousands of immi
Modernization and Gender
This article is a historical analysis of Girls’ Institutes in Turkey. These schools were established in the early Republican era in order to educate girl students to gender roles compatible with modernization and with the westernization project of the Turkish state. The analysis is based upon qualitative data (including interviews and focus groups). The findings point to four trends in the history of Girls’ Institutes and in the characteristics a…
The politics of population in a nation-building process
Within the politics of nationalism and nation-building, the emigration of ethnic and religious minorities, whether voluntary or involuntary, appears to be a commonly occurring practice. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century, modern Turkey still carried the legacy of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious diversity in which its Armenian, Greek and Jewish communities had official minority status based upon the 1923 Treaty…
How do Smuggling and Trafficking Operate via Irregular Border Crossings in the Middle East? Evidence from Fieldwork in Turkey
This article summarizes main trends, issues, actors, and activities regarding the operation and extension of human trafficking and smuggling via irregular border crossings in the Middle East. Its premise is that rather than the obvious involvement of hierarchical mafia‐type organized crime groups, globally articulated networks of locally operating independent, individual groups comprise the essential foundation for human trafficking and smuggling…
Islam, Modernity, and Democracy in Contemporary Turkey
Alevis and Alevism in the Changing Context of Turkish Politics
The Justice and Development Party (JDP, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) has launched a rapprochement policy toward the Alevis. The JDP's Alevi Opening has presented a unique case in Turkey's latest identity politics not only because Alevi claims, for the first time, came to be involved in political processes for official recognition and accommodation, but also because the process was handled by a political party which is regarded to have retained Isl…
Citizenship and Minorities
Citizenship in Turkey is one of the major instruments of nation-building. The legal framework that Turkish citizenship rests on is universal and equal. The non-Muslim minorities - the Armenians, the Greeks and the Jews - however are granted special group rights in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. Despite the protection of minorities and their rights in the treaty, the non-Muslim minorities, from time to time, had been superceded by the universal norm…
Turkey's Jews and their immigration to Israel
Turkey, traditionally, is recognized as a ‘sending’ country in terms of international migration flows, and in the form of both labour migration and asylum seekers, it has sent out thousands of immi
Empowerment and Resistance Strategies of Working Women in Turkey
This article deals with the empowerment and resistance strategies used by working women in Turkey. In order to explore the ways in which gender ideologies are produced and resisted, a very specific group of women were studied using life history and focus group interviews. The interviews were conducted with women who had graduated between 1960 and 1970 from Girls' Institutes. The Girls' Institutes were all-female high schools and the curriculum of…
Turkey's Roma
There are now many Roma populations in various countries, predominantly on the European continent. In accordance with this diversity in settlement places as well as living, Roma people have taken d
The EU and Minority Rights in Turkey
SULE TOKTAS is an associate professor of international relations at Kadir Has University. She has published Immigration to Turkey and various articles on international migration, women's issues, and ethnic and religious minorities in Turkey. BULENT ARAS is a professor of international relations at Istanbul Technical University. He has co-authored Syria and Afghanistan: Dilemmas of Security and Democracy and various articles on Turkish foreign pol…
Women’s Shelters in Turkey
Despite a long history of women's movements and policy-making efforts to ameliorate women's status in Turkey, the number and quality of women's shelters are far from sufficient. This article aims to reveal the shortcomings of shelter policy through the lens of those "at work" on this important social issue using a qualitative research design. Forty semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with municipal administrative officials, state so…
Feminists' Dilemma—With or Without the State? Violence against Women and Women's Shelters in Turkey
This article aims to describe the achievements of the women's movement in the struggle against domestic violence in Turkey and the points of contention between the state and feminists regarding this issue. Our goal in analyzing the Turkish case of violence against women is to reflect on how women's organizations work with the state; what they demand from it; and how they respond to the complex situations and dilemmas of state funded women's shelt…
Women's Access to Property
This article uses a comparative approach to discuss women's access to property using evidence collected from field research conducted on two distinct communities of Istanbul: one secular and one Islamic. The two groups of women possess distinctly different views of the world and how it is organized. This is particularly the case concerning gender where secular women put forth a view rooted in the sameness of the genders where the Islamic women we…
Women's Property Rights in Turkey
This article takes Turkey as a case study, exploring marital and inheritance regimes with regard to their impact on women and their ability to protect women's property rights. The aim of the study is to bring to light the workings of the legal system that regulate the acquisition of property and to scrutinize the gap between the law and its practice in Turkish society. By taking this approach, the article does not only focus on laws but also on h…
Competing frameworks of Islamic law and secular civil law in Turkey
How Do Women Receive Inheritance? The Processes of Turkish Women’s Inclusion and Exclusion from Property
This article employs Turkey as a case study to explore the relationship between property ownership, inheritance, and women’s empowerment. In Turkey, as in much of the world, men dominate ownership of property. This is despite the fact that women have had equal rights to own and inherit property since 1926. With the establishment of the Republic in 1923 came a series of reforms, one of which replaced Islamic Sharia law with a secular civil law tha…
Cultural Identity, Minority Position and Immigration
Turkey and Israel are two states founded in the first half of the twentieth century in the Middle East. They have different history and roots, yet they share some commonalities: both are rare examp
Perceptions of Anti‐Semitism among Turkish Jews
It is commonly believed that there is little or no anti‐Semitism in Turkey. For this reason, the Turkish Jewish community is considered to be fortunate. The 1942 Capital Tax, the September 6–7 Events in 1955, and even the Thrace Incidents of 1934, in which the Jews were the main targets of violence, are considered to be examples of discrimination against all non‐Muslim minorities in Turkey. This study investigates the validity of this optimistic …
The Conduct of Citizenship in the Case of Turkey's Jewish Minority
Contemporary liberal democracies confront governance problems elicited by the discord between the principles of equality and difference, and between the concepts of majority and minority. Citizenship came to be recognized as a vital governance tool in response to this challenge evidenced by growing academic and political interest in the concept. The basic precept that citizenship refers to is a constitutionality-based relationship between the ind…
Modernization and Gender
This article is a historical analysis of Girls’ Institutes in Turkey. These schools were established in the early Republican era in order to educate girl students to gender roles compatible with modernization and with the westernization project of the Turkish state. The analysis is based upon qualitative data (including interviews and focus groups). The findings point to four trends in the history of Girls’ Institutes and in the characteristics a…
Border Crossings between Georgia and Turkey
The Sarp land border gate between Turkey and Georgia has become Turkey’s gateway to the East in recent years. With a large number of individuals crossing every day, it is also a labour gate, where irregular Georgian immigrants cross the border for work in Turkey. In general, border policies are constructed and reconstructed in a dynamic process in which economic, security, ethnopolitical, geopolitical and cultural paradigms interact. The aim of t…
The Turkish Military’s Autonomy, JDP Rule and the EU Reform Process in the 2000s
This article tackles the question of Europeanization in Turkey’s civil‐military relations and the extent to which the EU has served as an anchor in the civilian control over the Turkish Armed Forces. We argue that the EU membership process has necessitated democratization in civil‐military relations; EU support was not sufficient for fully integrated democratic control of the armed forces (DECAF) as there are still problems in the democratization…
Does migration contribute to women’s empowerment? Portrait of urban Turkey and Istanbul
This article empirically investigates the impact of internal migration on women’s empowerment in urban areas of Turkey. Based on data from a nationally representative household survey, we find that migration exerts a positive impact in urban settings through improvements in educational attainment and labor market outcomes. Migration contributes to women’s empowerment by raising their education levels and lowering the gap in schooling between men …
A fghanistan's S ecurity
Establishing political authority and constructing a state instrument would increase trust, which would contribute to stability.1 The lack of political institutions necessary for stability encourages the interference of individuals and groups with "special" interests, at both the state and societal levels.2 Stability is not only a prerequisite for the development of the political process and security within the country; it is also a risk to securi…
Engendered emotions
Empowerment and Resistance Strategies of Working Women in Turkey
This article deals with the empowerment and resistance strategies used by working women in Turkey. In order to explore the ways in which gender ideologies are produced and resisted, a very specific group of women were studied using life history and focus group interviews. The interviews were conducted with women who had graduated between 1960 and 1970 from Girls' Institutes. The Girls' Institutes were all-female high schools and the curriculum of…
Engendered emotions
How do Smuggling and Trafficking Operate via Irregular Border Crossings in the Middle East? Evidence from Fieldwork in Turkey
This article summarizes main trends, issues, actors, and activities regarding the operation and extension of human trafficking and smuggling via irregular border crossings in the Middle East. Its premise is that rather than the obvious involvement of hierarchical mafia‐type organized crime groups, globally articulated networks of locally operating independent, individual groups comprise the essential foundation for human trafficking and smuggling…
Islam, Modernity, and Democracy in Contemporary Turkey
Citizenship and Minorities
Citizenship in Turkey is one of the major instruments of nation-building. The legal framework that Turkish citizenship rests on is universal and equal. The non-Muslim minorities - the Armenians, the Greeks and the Jews - however are granted special group rights in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. Despite the protection of minorities and their rights in the treaty, the non-Muslim minorities, from time to time, had been superceded by the universal norm…
Perceptions of Anti‐Semitism among Turkish Jews
It is commonly believed that there is little or no anti‐Semitism in Turkey. For this reason, the Turkish Jewish community is considered to be fortunate. The 1942 Capital Tax, the September 6–7 Events in 1955, and even the Thrace Incidents of 1934, in which the Jews were the main targets of violence, are considered to be examples of discrimination against all non‐Muslim minorities in Turkey. This study investigates the validity of this optimistic …
The Conduct of Citizenship in the Case of Turkey's Jewish Minority
Contemporary liberal democracies confront governance problems elicited by the discord between the principles of equality and difference, and between the concepts of majority and minority. Citizenship came to be recognized as a vital governance tool in response to this challenge evidenced by growing academic and political interest in the concept. The basic precept that citizenship refers to is a constitutionality-based relationship between the ind…
Turkey's Jews and their immigration to Israel
Turkey, traditionally, is recognized as a ‘sending’ country in terms of international migration flows, and in the form of both labour migration and asylum seekers, it has sent out thousands of immi
Modernization and Gender
This article is a historical analysis of Girls’ Institutes in Turkey. These schools were established in the early Republican era in order to educate girl students to gender roles compatible with modernization and with the westernization project of the Turkish state. The analysis is based upon qualitative data (including interviews and focus groups). The findings point to four trends in the history of Girls’ Institutes and in the characteristics a…
Al-Qaida, ‘war on terror’ and Turkey
The new wave of international terrorism gained strength in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, threatening not only the USA and its allies but also, as seen in the latest incidents, a significant part of the world. Continuing al-Qaida attacks signify the vulnerability and weakness of defence, security and intelligence systems in the face of the new international terror. The terror network has created an image of a postmodern virtual state. We argu…
Turkey's Roma
There are now many Roma populations in various countries, predominantly on the European continent. In accordance with this diversity in settlement places as well as living, Roma people have taken d
A fghanistan's S ecurity
Establishing political authority and constructing a state instrument would increase trust, which would contribute to stability.1 The lack of political institutions necessary for stability encourages the interference of individuals and groups with "special" interests, at both the state and societal levels.2 Stability is not only a prerequisite for the development of the political process and security within the country; it is also a risk to securi…
Cultural Identity, Minority Position and Immigration
Turkey and Israel are two states founded in the first half of the twentieth century in the Middle East. They have different history and roots, yet they share some commonalities: both are rare examp
The politics of population in a nation-building process
Within the politics of nationalism and nation-building, the emigration of ethnic and religious minorities, whether voluntary or involuntary, appears to be a commonly occurring practice. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century, modern Turkey still carried the legacy of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious diversity in which its Armenian, Greek and Jewish communities had official minority status based upon the 1923 Treaty…
The EU and Minority Rights in Turkey
SULE TOKTAS is an associate professor of international relations at Kadir Has University. She has published Immigration to Turkey and various articles on international migration, women's issues, and ethnic and religious minorities in Turkey. BULENT ARAS is a professor of international relations at Istanbul Technical University. He has co-authored Syria and Afghanistan: Dilemmas of Security and Democracy and various articles on Turkish foreign pol…
Turkey's new dynamics in domestic and foreign policy
Waves of feminism in Turkey
Women's movements in the West have followed a historical sequence from the suffragette movement in the late 19th century to contemporary emphases on differences and identity politics. Although ther
The Turkish Military’s Autonomy, JDP Rule and the EU Reform Process in the 2000s
This article tackles the question of Europeanization in Turkey’s civil‐military relations and the extent to which the EU has served as an anchor in the civilian control over the Turkish Armed Forces. We argue that the EU membership process has necessitated democratization in civil‐military relations; EU support was not sufficient for fully integrated democratic control of the armed forces (DECAF) as there are still problems in the democratization…
Alevis and Alevism in the Changing Context of Turkish Politics
The Justice and Development Party (JDP, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) has launched a rapprochement policy toward the Alevis. The JDP's Alevi Opening has presented a unique case in Turkey's latest identity politics not only because Alevi claims, for the first time, came to be involved in political processes for official recognition and accommodation, but also because the process was handled by a political party which is regarded to have retained Isl…
Feminists' Dilemma—With or Without the State? Violence against Women and Women's Shelters in Turkey
This article aims to describe the achievements of the women's movement in the struggle against domestic violence in Turkey and the points of contention between the state and feminists regarding this issue. Our goal in analyzing the Turkish case of violence against women is to reflect on how women's organizations work with the state; what they demand from it; and how they respond to the complex situations and dilemmas of state funded women's shelt…
Smuggling and Trafficking in Turkey
Since the 1990s, there has been a global proliferation of transnational organized crime (TOC). Turkey, as a transit site between the East and the West, has been one of the routes through which organized crime groups transport illicit goods in collaboration with other networks of crime. This paper investigates TOC in Turkey and maps out Turkey's role as a transit country in smuggling and trafficking. The paper also deals with Turkey's contribution…
Women’s Shelters in Turkey
Despite a long history of women's movements and policy-making efforts to ameliorate women's status in Turkey, the number and quality of women's shelters are far from sufficient. This article aims to reveal the shortcomings of shelter policy through the lens of those "at work" on this important social issue using a qualitative research design. Forty semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with municipal administrative officials, state so…
How Do Women Receive Inheritance? The Processes of Turkish Women’s Inclusion and Exclusion from Property
This article employs Turkey as a case study to explore the relationship between property ownership, inheritance, and women’s empowerment. In Turkey, as in much of the world, men dominate ownership of property. This is despite the fact that women have had equal rights to own and inherit property since 1926. With the establishment of the Republic in 1923 came a series of reforms, one of which replaced Islamic Sharia law with a secular civil law tha…
Women's Property Rights in Turkey
This article takes Turkey as a case study, exploring marital and inheritance regimes with regard to their impact on women and their ability to protect women's property rights. The aim of the study is to bring to light the workings of the legal system that regulate the acquisition of property and to scrutinize the gap between the law and its practice in Turkish society. By taking this approach, the article does not only focus on laws but also on h…
Competing frameworks of Islamic law and secular civil law in Turkey
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