Browsing by Keywords "Civil society"

An analysis on the contribution of civil society to democratic consolidation in Turkey

Torus, Emre (Bilkent University, 2007)

This is an analysis on the contribution of civil society to democratic consolidation in Turkey. This thesis will try to understand this problematic by assessing the civil society’s formal structure, legal framework, ...

File: Turkey, Europeanization and civil society

Diez, Thomas; Agnantopoulos, Apostolos; Kaliber, Alper (2005)

This article reviews the Europeanization literature and proposes to distinguish between four different kinds of Europeanization: policy-Europeanization, political Europeanization, societal Europeanization and discursive ...

Globalization, civil society and citizenship in Turkey: actors, boundaries and discourses

Keyman, E. F.; Icduygu, A. (Routledge, 2003)

In recent years, civil society has become one of the most important concerns of academic and public discourse. It would not be a mistake to propose that today there is a strong, effective and even over-glorified talk about ...

Islamists and the state: changing discourses on the state, civil society and democracy in Turkey

Köseoğlu, T. (Routledge, 2018)

Once an oppositional ideology in the 1990s that united Muslim intellectuals around a radical critique of the state based on the ideals of democracy, civil society and pluralism, how has Turkish Islamism transformed into a ...

The nature of the relationship between religious communities and civil society in Turkey : the case of the Fethullah Gulen community

Başkan, Filiz (Bilkent University, 1998)

This thesis addresses the question as to whether or not religious communities can be defined as part civil societal organization within the context of democratization efforts in Turkey. The Fethullah Gülen Community will ...