Çağrı Yoltar
Biographic Data
| ID | 213251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Çağrı Yoltar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Çağrı |
| FAMILY NAME | Yoltar |
| SIGNATURE | YOLTAR Ç |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Welfare as Gift: Local Charity, Politics of Redistribution, and Religion in Turkey
Random Sampling in Corpus Design: Cross-Context Generalizability in Automated Multicountry Protest Event Collection
What is the most optimal way of creating a gold standard corpus for training a machine learning system that is designed for automatically collecting protest information in a cross-country context? We show that creating a gold standard corpus for training and testing machine learning models on the basis of randomly chosen news articles from news archives yields better performance than selecting news articles on the basis of keyword filtering, whic…
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability and Political Violence in Turkey
The honorific term gazi has a significant place in right-wing politics in Turkey as a key symbol of Turkish nationalism and Islamism. Historically a title associated with Muslim warriors and Ottoman and Turkish sovereigns, it has gained a renewed visibility in everyday life and politics since the 1990s, when the Turkish state began to bestow this title on disabled veterans returning from the counterinsurgency war in Kurdistan. As the war's toll r…
Contentious welfare: The Kurdish conflict and social policy as counterinsurgency in Turkey
The period since the 1990s has witnessed the expanding political influence of the Kurdish movement across the country as well as a transformation in the welfare system, manifesting itself mainly in the emergence of extensive social assistance programs. While Turkish social assistance policy has been formally neutral regarding who is entitled to state aid, Kurds have been de facto singled out by these new welfare programs, as is shown by existing …
Making the Indebted Citizen: An Inquiry into State Benevolence in Turkey
This article concerns the making of the indebted citizen in Turkey through state benevolence. It focuses on the materialization of a debt relationship between state and citizen in everyday workings of state-sponsored welfare programs in the Kurdish region, in the shadow of a protracted armed conflict between the Turkish military forces and the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (Kurdistan Workers' Party). In Turkey, as in many other places, welfare benef…
When the Poor Need Health Care: Ethnography of State and Citizenship in Turkey
This article is mainly about the everyday workings of the Green Card Scheme in Turkey, which is a social assistance mechanism providing free health care services to the poor. Through a scrutiny of interactions around the Green Card Scheme in the city of Adıyaman in south-eastern Turkey, the article explores how the categories of state and citizenship substantiated at the local level by means of various discourses and practices and in the process …
Making the Indebted Citizen: An Inquiry into State Benevolence in Turkey
This article concerns the making of the indebted citizen in Turkey through state benevolence. It focuses on the materialization of a debt relationship between state and citizen in everyday workings of state-sponsored welfare programs in the Kurdish region, in the shadow of a protracted armed conflict between the Turkish military forces and the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (Kurdistan Workers' Party). In Turkey, as in many other places, welfare benef…
When the Poor Need Health Care: Ethnography of State and Citizenship in Turkey
This article is mainly about the everyday workings of the Green Card Scheme in Turkey, which is a social assistance mechanism providing free health care services to the poor. Through a scrutiny of interactions around the Green Card Scheme in the city of Adıyaman in south-eastern Turkey, the article explores how the categories of state and citizenship substantiated at the local level by means of various discourses and practices and in the process …
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability and Political Violence in Turkey
The honorific term gazi has a significant place in right-wing politics in Turkey as a key symbol of Turkish nationalism and Islamism. Historically a title associated with Muslim warriors and Ottoman and Turkish sovereigns, it has gained a renewed visibility in everyday life and politics since the 1990s, when the Turkish state began to bestow this title on disabled veterans returning from the counterinsurgency war in Kurdistan. As the war's toll r…
Contentious welfare: The Kurdish conflict and social policy as counterinsurgency in Turkey
The period since the 1990s has witnessed the expanding political influence of the Kurdish movement across the country as well as a transformation in the welfare system, manifesting itself mainly in the emergence of extensive social assistance programs. While Turkish social assistance policy has been formally neutral regarding who is entitled to state aid, Kurds have been de facto singled out by these new welfare programs, as is shown by existing …
When the Poor Need Health Care: Ethnography of State and Citizenship in Turkey
This article is mainly about the everyday workings of the Green Card Scheme in Turkey, which is a social assistance mechanism providing free health care services to the poor. Through a scrutiny of interactions around the Green Card Scheme in the city of Adıyaman in south-eastern Turkey, the article explores how the categories of state and citizenship substantiated at the local level by means of various discourses and practices and in the process …
Making the Indebted Citizen: An Inquiry into State Benevolence in Turkey
This article concerns the making of the indebted citizen in Turkey through state benevolence. It focuses on the materialization of a debt relationship between state and citizen in everyday workings of state-sponsored welfare programs in the Kurdish region, in the shadow of a protracted armed conflict between the Turkish military forces and the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (Kurdistan Workers' Party). In Turkey, as in many other places, welfare benef…
Contentious welfare: The Kurdish conflict and social policy as counterinsurgency in Turkey
The period since the 1990s has witnessed the expanding political influence of the Kurdish movement across the country as well as a transformation in the welfare system, manifesting itself mainly in the emergence of extensive social assistance programs. While Turkish social assistance policy has been formally neutral regarding who is entitled to state aid, Kurds have been de facto singled out by these new welfare programs, as is shown by existing …
Random Sampling in Corpus Design: Cross-Context Generalizability in Automated Multicountry Protest Event Collection
What is the most optimal way of creating a gold standard corpus for training a machine learning system that is designed for automatically collecting protest information in a cross-country context? We show that creating a gold standard corpus for training and testing machine learning models on the basis of randomly chosen news articles from news archives yields better performance than selecting news articles on the basis of keyword filtering, whic…
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability and Political Violence in Turkey
The honorific term gazi has a significant place in right-wing politics in Turkey as a key symbol of Turkish nationalism and Islamism. Historically a title associated with Muslim warriors and Ottoman and Turkish sovereigns, it has gained a renewed visibility in everyday life and politics since the 1990s, when the Turkish state began to bestow this title on disabled veterans returning from the counterinsurgency war in Kurdistan. As the war's toll r…
Welfare as Gift: Local Charity, Politics of Redistribution, and Religion in Turkey
Turkey's Politics and Society (5 works) · Politics (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works)