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Item Open Access An analysis on the contribution of civil society to democratic consolidation in Turkey(Bilkent University, 2007) Torus, EmreThis 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, internal values and its impact during the consolidation process. The key aim here is to understand the civil society’s role as a contributor to democratic consolidation by mapping the civil society and democratic consolidation relationship in Turkey. While doing so, this study will base itself on a combination of theories that link the civil society to democratic consolidation with an empirical tool for the assessment of this linkage.Item Open Access File: Turkey, Europeanization and civil society(2005) Diez, Thomas; Agnantopoulos, Apostolos; Kaliber, AlperThis article reviews the Europeanization literature and proposes to distinguish between four different kinds of Europeanization: policy-Europeanization, political Europeanization, societal Europeanization and discursive Europeanization. We link these different concepts to the impact of the EU on the current domestic transformations in Turkey and argue that existing scholarship has not sufficiently discussed the impact of Europeanization on civil society development, and the role of civil society organizations in furthering Europeanization. We establish the need to further analyze the triangle of Europeanization, civil society and Turkish political reform in a comparative perspective, introducing the other articles included in this SESP File.Item Open Access Globalization, civil society and citizenship in Turkey: actors, boundaries and discourses(Routledge, 2003) Keyman, E. F.; Icduygu, A.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 and a global agenda for civil society and its role in the process of creating a better and humane world. In this talk and agenda the main intention is to reinvigorate and strengthen civil society politically, organizationally and normatively as a counter- hegemonic and resistance movement against the state-centric world. This paper argues that Turkey does not constitute an exception in this context. Rather, it provides an illuminating case-study in which the crisis of the state-centric modernity has given rise to the elevation of civil society to the status of being an exteremely important actor and arena for the democratization of the state-society relations. However, on the basis of the three-year-long research (1999-2002) we have done on 'the impacts of globalization on Turkey', the paper also argues that the role of civil society in the process of democratization should be considered a necessary but not a sufficient condition, insofar as it contains both democratic and essentialist discourses about citizenship and identity. In order to substantiale these arguments, the paper will first outline the internal and external factors that have paved the way to the emergence and the increasing importance of civil society in Turkey, and then will shift its attention to the question of 'the use and the abuse of civil society'. In seeking a proper answer to this question, the paper will focus on the discourses and strategies of different civil society organizations about state, society, citizenship and identity in Turkey.Item Open Access Islamists and the state: changing discourses on the state, civil society and democracy in Turkey(Routledge, 2018) Köseoğlu, T.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 state-centric and conservative world-view? This paper aims to document this transformation by scrutinizing the writings of a group of intellectuals in the context of (I) the 28 February 1997, military memorandum and the subsequent events which culminated in the AKP’s first electoral victory in 2002; and (II) the series of trials that started in 2008 known as the Ergenekon trials through which the AKP gained the upper hand in Turkish politics. In so doing, the paper problematizes the prevalent narratives on the relationship between Islam, on the one hand, and democracy and civil society, on the other, that miss how formulations and articulations of Islamism evolve in changing political contexts.Item Open Access The nature of the relationship between religious communities and civil society in Turkey : the case of the Fethullah Gulen community(Bilkent University, 1998) Başkan, FilizThis 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 be the case study of this thesis. Theoretical debate on civil society will be examined to provide an insight into the relations between religious communities and civil society and to clarify the basic definition of "civil society." The historical background of modern Turkey, that is, the Ottoman Empire will be analyzed with the objective of shedding light on the question of civil society debate in modern Turkey. The thesis will also present the historical context in which Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and Nurculuk emerged. The analysis of Said Nursi will provide important insights to understand the Fethullah Gülen Community, one branch of the Nurculuk. Finally, this thesis will dwell on the Fethullah Gülen Community in relation to the notion of civil society and conclude that it cannot be defined as part of civil society in the ideal sense of the term.Item Open Access NGO's as the link between state and society? Women's community centers in Southeastern Turkey(Bilkent University, 2003) Genel, SemaCivil society initiatives in Turkey are transforming from organizations based on traditional commitments, religious ties, and other primordial forms of relations to organizations based on universal values, which are shaped mainly by the claims of a larger civil society on a global scale. These universal values are in close interconnection with changes taking place at the local level, exerting an influence on particularistic values. This results in flows of interaction between global civil society and grassroots initiatives. In this sense, civil society organizations at the national level play a crucial role in the provision of the link between the global and the local within a given nation-state. However, values promoted at the national level, shaped mainly by politics of the nation-state, can be in sharp contradiction to those of a universalist and equally particularistic character. This situation is currently prevalent in Turkey with respect to the discussions on the crisis of democracy in the country. Civil society organizations, represented mainly by vakıfs and derneks as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), are trying to bring closer together the national practice of democracy with the changes of the notion of democracy at the global level, with reference to local particularities. It is the role of the national NGOs in Turkey, then, to ease the tension with respect to the clash of values between the state and the local community level as shaped by a global civil society. On a global scale, NGOs have started filling the gap between the top-down policies of the state and the bottom-up demands of local grassroots activity. The three-tier relationship between the state, NGO, and the local community is becoming increasingly complex due to the internal as well as external forces at play. It is this role of Turkish NGOs that is the focus of the current study. It is interesting to observe the degree to which NGOs in Turkey are creating alternatives to development and a move towards participatory democracy through women’s empowerment centers within a larger state-sponsored development project in Southeastern Turkey. Given the peculiarities of gender and minorities as essential components of the case study, the thesis analyzes the role of Turkish NGOs in creating the links between local and central authorities on the one hand, and the local community on the other.Item Restricted Özgeci bir yaşama yolculuk: Suna Kıraç ve STK örneği TEGV(Bilkent University, 2021) Garip, Atahan; Battal, Ayşenur; Bulut, Gül Su; Çakal, Mehmet Emre; Fırat, TaylanKoç ailesi Türkiye’nin en çok bilinen aileleri arasında yer almaktadır. Vehbi Koç’un esnaf olarak başladığı iş hayatı, aldığı kararlar ve Türkiye’nin içinde bulunduğu tarihsel bağlam ile hızla Koç Holding’in kuruluşuna doğru ilerlemiştir. Koç ailesinin etki alanı yalnızca ticaret ile sınırlı kalmamış, yürüttükleri sivil toplum projeleri ile Türkiye’de sanattan eğitime birçok farklı alana da yön vermişlerdir. Vehbi Koç’a en çok benzeyen çocuğu olduğu iddia edilen Suna Kıraç da eğitim alanını ülkenin geleceği için çok önemli görmüş ve bu alanın yalnızca devlete bırakılmaması gerektiğini düşünerek Türkiye Eğitim Gönüllüleri Vakfı’nı kurmuştur. Bu çalışmada, “sivil toplum” anlayışının tarihi ve neoliberalizmin yükselişi ile sivil toplum anlayışının yakın dönemdeki dönüşümü de göz önüne alınarak, Suna Kıraç ve TEGV’in faaliyetleri içinde bulunduğu tarihsel bağlamda değerlendirilmiştir.Item Restricted Postmodern söylem, islam ve "modern mahrem"(1992) Demir, ÖmerItem Open Access Revisiting civil society in Turkey(Routledge, 2011-03) Heper, M.; Yıldırım, S.In studies on civil society, there is a tendency to perceive it as an instrument for the transition from an authoritarian system of government to a democratic one. It is not taken as a societal entity in an already consolidated democracy that contributes to the making of public policies. This is also the case when it comes to studies on civil society in Turkey. Assuming that Turkey has a consolidated democracy, this article investigates the extent to which one comes across impediments to, prerequisites of, and the primary characteristics of civil society in this country. It arrives at the conclusion that at least in the Turkish case, one may not talk about the presence or absence of civil society; one may come across only some of its characteristics and not others. © 2011 Taylor & Francis. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Item Restricted The agony of politics: The Nietzschean roots of Foucault's thought(1990) Thiele, Leslie PaulItem Restricted Toplum bağışlamaz(1976) Şenyapılı, Önder