Browsing by Subject "Human rights--Turkey."

Filter results by typing the first few letters
Now showing 1 - 3 of 3
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    The impact of EU conditionality in affecting candidate countries' human rights reform making process : Turkish case
    (2013) Erdem, Nilay
    This study is an attempt to investigate the extent of EU political conditionality tool's impact on triggering human rights reform making in candidate countries to the EU. It does so by analyzing the distinctive characters of the political conditionality and human rights reform making process. In this framework, the study argues that whereas the EU conditionality is an invaluable tool in encouraging the candidate states in terms of reform making, its impact is not independent from external factors.
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    National identity, citizenship and pluralism in Turkey: the turban question
    (1997) Gençoğlu, Funda
    The contemporary process of globalization involves a tension between cultural helerogenization and cultural homogenization which has made the relationship between the nation-state and its members a problematical issue. It is out of this context that the modern , liberal-democratic notion of citizenship has become focus of attention for the students of political science. The modern, liberal-democratic idea of citizenship is based upon a distinction between public and private which embraces the principle of equality before the law in the public while relegating all particularities and differences to the private. This thesis tries to explain the “turban question” in Turkey by contextualizing it with reference to the points raised by the contemporary critics of modern, liberal-democratic conception of citizenship.
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    Turkey's rejection by the European Union due to human rights violations and democracy
    (2000) Gürer, Güniz
    This thesis addresses the reasons for Turkey’s rejection by the European Union focusing on the issues of human rights violations and democratic instability. The proposition that these political issues are the basis for EU's refusal to admit Turkey to the Union, is developed by means of an analysis of Europe’s historic movement towards ever greater political integration, Turkey’s relations with Europe during its separate historical development, and the sometimes conflicting European/Turkish views on the concept of human rights and the role of the military in Turkish politics. Finally, survey material is utilized to illustrate that the European Union is widely viewed in Turkey as primarily an economic rather than political entity, a finding which may help explain the apparent discrepancy in opinion between Turkey and Europe regarding European rejection of the Turkish bid to join the Union.