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Election monitoring organizations in view of electoral geography: Regional characteristics of volunteer networks in Turkey
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-03-12)
This chapter analyzes Turkish parliamentary elections by using a relatively new indicator for measuring the degree of political party nationalization. Employing this measurement, the chapter analyzes the votes received by ...
"Liberated neighborhoods": reconstructing leftist activism in the urban periphery
(De Gruyter, 2020)
This article addresses the phenomenon of what is known as ‘liberated territory’1 in recent Turkish history (the second half of the 1970s), during which leftist activists2 entered the urban periphery for ideological purposes. ...
"Where are they doing politics?" Women's cooperatives as sites of constellations of power
(Routledge, 2021-03-12)
Being more spatially accessible and offering more channels, the active participation of women in local politics is more likely than in national politics. On the other hand, active political engagement in local politics may ...
Migration from rural Anatolia to Metropolitan cities
(Routledge, 2021-07-26)
This chapter explores migration from villages to metropolitan cities in Turkey starting in the late 1940s. It aims to reveal how this transformed cities and villages alike. First, I identify the defining features of Turkish ...