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Citation - Scopus: 52
Alevis and Alevism in the Changing Context of Turkish Politics: the Justice and Development Party's Alevi Opening
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011-09) Soner, Bayram Ali; Toktas, Sule
The Justice and Development Party (JDP, Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi) has launched a rapprochement policy toward the Alevis. The JDP's Alevi Opening has presented a unique case in Turkey's latest identity politics not only because Alevi claims, for the first time, came to be involved in political processes for official recognition and accommodation, but also because the process was handled by a political party which is regarded to have retained Islamist roots in Sunni interpretation. This article explores the JDP's Alevi Opening process and tries to explain the motivations behind the party's decision to incorporate the Alevi question in its political agenda. What is more, the debate that the opening has caused is also under scrutiny with the positions and arguments held by the actors and the agencies involved in the process, e. g., the Alevis (the secularist and the conservative wings), the General Directorate of Religious Affairs, the National Security Council, the JDP leadership and the Islamist intellectuals.
Are You a Muslim?': Contested Transnational Diaspora Identity of Alevis as a Minority Within a Minority Through Alevi Organizations in the Netherlands
(Taylor & Francis inc, 2025-05-15) Sen, Seher
This article focuses on the contested process of identity formation among the Alevi diaspora through an examination of Alevi organizations in the Netherlands, by considering various actors, situations, events, and interventions or reactions within asymmetrical power relations. In doing so, it argues that over the last two decades, Alevi identity has been positioned and repositioned through such questions as 'Who are you?' and 'Are you a Muslim?' constantly asked by different actors. These questions -especially the ones asked by states- require Alevis to situate themselves to Islam and invite them to explain themselves in relation to Sunni Muslims, in both Turkey and Europe, albeit in different contexts. This study claims that both the Turkish state's direct question to Alevis, a minority in Turkey, and the Dutch state's indirect question to diaspora Alevis, a minority within a minority in the Netherlands are prominent positioning factors in the identity formation process of transnational diaspora Alevis in the Netherlands.
Articulation and Disarticulation of Kars Cheeses Within Dairy Commodity Chains
(Cambridge University Press, 2026-02-10) Tatari, M. Fatih; Nizam, Derya
There has been growing public interest in traditional cheese production and consumption over the past decade, in contrast to the 1990s and 2000s, when food safety regulations excluded traditional cheesemakers from Turkey's dairy commodity chains. This article focuses on two cheeses, Kars Ka & scedil;ar & imath; and Bo & gbreve;atepe Gravyeri, designated in 2015 with national Geographical Indication and international Slow Food Presidium labels. Drawing on archival and long-term ethnographic research, we trace the historical trajectory of commercial dairying in Kars and its articulation and disarticulation within national and international commodity chains. Against the backdrop of twentieth-century transformations, we investigate how place-based labels have contested neoliberal agricultural policies that imposed industrialization and standardization on the dairy sector. We argue that the re-articulation of Kars in the 2010s relied on community development and collective action, and practices negotiating between tradition and standardization to establish new conventions of quality. This article conceptualizes re-articulation as a transformative socio-ecological process rather than a simple reversal of disarticulation. It demonstrates how peripheral regions re-enter markets through locally negotiated strategies balancing standardization, authenticity, and solidarity. It also foregrounds material and ecological relations, recognizing the agency of non-human elements - such as pastures and artisanal tools - in shaping value and quality.
Citation - WoS: 4
Citation - Scopus: 4
The Battlefields of Leisure: Simple Forms of Labor Control in the Turkish Hospitality Sector
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2020-07-28) Erköse, Hüseyin Yener
This article is based on an ethnographic study in the Turkish hospitality sector and examines the employment of simple forms of labor control in hospitality service work from the perspective of labor process analysis. It introduces ethnographic data from two holiday villages on the southern coast of Turkey serving international customers. The two holiday villages were workplaces that employed mostly young workers for low-skill, routine tasks that demanded intense physical and emotional labor, but without due remuneration, career chances, and employment security. Data based on participant observation and in-depth interviews point to an increasing managerial reliance on simple forms of labor control. This happens as a result of intensifying competition among hospitality firms in a market with volatile demand and managerial perceptions regarding employees' lack of customer service skills due to routinization and simplification of tasks after the introduction of the all-inclusive boarding system. Such market-related developments encourage employers to use simple control mechanisms that help in adjusting staffing levels, imposing loyalty, cutting costs, and ensuring efficiency.
Class, Migration and Masculinity Among Syrian and Turkish Youths in Working-Class Neighborhoods of Istanbul
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024-09-16) Yükseker, Deniz; Celer, Zafer; Şahin Taşgın, Nese; Tasgin, Nese Sahin
This article describes the masculinity narratives of working-class Syrian and Turkish youths in Istanbul on their lived experiences of socio-economic inequalities, everyday violence, and discrimination. Based on qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2020 and 2021 with male youths in two districts, it emphasizes the common experiences of Syrian and Turkish male youths shaped by their working-class predicaments, but also demonstrates that certain forms of masculinity performances emerge as strategies to tackle the difficulties in their lives. Turkish youths' masculinity narratives display nationalism and anti-migrant discourses, whereas Syrian youths seek to affirm their dignity against racism through performances of masculinity.
Citation - WoS: 33
Citation - Scopus: 38
The Comparison of the Opinions of the University Students on the Usage of Blog and Wiki for Their Courses
(IEEE Computer Soc, Learning Technology Task Force, 2012) Avci, Ummuhan; Aşkar, Petek
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of blogs and wikis as constructive tools in the computer courses of prospective teachers and compare them with respect to perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, intention, self efficacy, and anxiety. Ninty-two students who were enrolled in various teacher education programs used blog and wiki for their courses. After their experiences with blog and wiki, the data were collected by administrating the instrument developed by the researchers. The results showed that students were positive to blog and wiki usage in the teaching-learning process. However they found wiki more useful. Both perceived usefulness and self efficacy variables explain 71% of blog and wiki usage. This value points to a very high and significant correlation. Perceived usefulness has been identified as the variable that could explain intention by itself at the most.
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The Condition of the Ottoman Mine Labour and Its Impact on the Republican Period
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015-03-02) Kahveci̇, Erol
In the Ottoman state, mining was important for the conduct of war, mints, public works, crafts industry, and financing the centralized administration system. In the republican period, mines were also important in the state's industrialization project, and they were used to subsidize the developing industries through provision of low-cost raw materials. These policies of the Ottoman and Turkish states had serious consequences for mine labour. Analysis of the Ottoman mining industry in the classical and post-classical periods, and also during the Turkish Republican period, highlights a range of emerging patterns. These include the strict control of the production by the state, the common practice of subcontracting, the role of foreign capital in the history of mining, the village-based division of labour around the mines, the use of peasant cultivator miners, the exploitation of unfree labour, the lack of investment, and traditional labour-intensive working conditions. The concept of development and persistence' is invaluable in explaining the longevity and extent of these practices stemming from historical circumstances, and we can see the persistence of some of these practices during the Republican period, despite the changes in the political regime and economic development. Throughout, the miners have been in a vulnerable position in relation to the state, exacerbated by their ambiguous peasant-miner position as wage labourers.
Citation - WoS: 6
Citation - Scopus: 7
Digital Nomadism and Global Mobility: Challenges and Suggestions for International Migration Policies
(Wiley, 2022-11-25) Sanul Diner, R Gökçe; Sanul, Gökçe
[Abstract Not Available]
Citation - WoS: 36
Citation - Scopus: 43
Disasters as an Ideological Strategy for Governing Neoliberal Urban Transformation in Turkey: Insights From Izmir/Kadifekale
(Wiley, 2013-12-10) Saracoglu, Cenk; Demirtas-Milz, Neslihan
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Turkish cities have undergone large-scale change through a process referred to as urban transformation, involving, notably, the demolition of inner-city low-income settlements. The official authorities and business circles have resorted to various forms of discourse to justify these projects, which have led to the deportation of a significant number of people to peripheral areas. The discourse of natural disasters', for example, suggests that urban transformation is necessary to protect people from some pending event. Probably the most effective application of this discourse has occurred in Izmir, where the risk posed by landslides' has played a critical role in the settlement demolitions conducted in the huge inner-city neighbourhood of Kadifekale. By examining the case of Kadifekale, this paper provide some insights into how natural disasters' serve as a discourse with which to legitimise the neoliberal logic entrenched in the urban transformation process in Turkey.
Citation - WoS: 4
Citation - Scopus: 6
Driving Green Job Opportunities in Sustainable Waste Management Through Co-Production Strategies: Informal Recycling Workers, Municipalities, and the National Agenda-A Case Study of Izmir
(Mdpi, 2023-06-30) Kavuş, Helin Kardelen; Erköse, Hüseyin Yener; Eryar, Sıtkı Değer; Eryar, Değer; Erköse, Yener
Informal recycling workers (IRWs), including waste pickers (WPs) and waste sorters, are essential constituents of sustainable ecosystems in many cities in the Global South. Despite their valuable contributions to the economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable urban waste recycling, most IRWs work in precarious conditions. This paper examines recent efforts by local municipalities in Izmir to implement co-production design as a new institutional arrangement to generate green jobs for informal workers that provide high and stable incomes, job security, and social recognition. Using qualitative analyses of recent developments in the legal framework and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, this paper identifies the following challenges associated with the current co-production efforts as its main findings: the lack of fiscal and legislative support from the central government; failure to include all IRWs in the co-production schemes; and the potential exclusion of marginalized communities due to the arbitrary requirements of a security clearance, which limit the inclusion of IRWs in co-production efforts.
Editors Introduction: Fall 2025
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2025-10-28) Dincer, Evren M.; Yukseker, Deniz; Kolluoglu, Biray
Environmental Mobilizations Through Online Networks: An Analysis of Environmental Activism on Turkey's Twittersphere
(USC Annenberg Press, 2022) Dogu, Burak; Ozen, Hayriye; Pasin, Begum
This study explores and elucidates the nature and dynamics of environmental activism mediated via Twitter in Turkey. Drawing on the Twitter data, we show that two different forms of environmentalism are being pursued on this platform. There is, on the one hand, mainstream environmentalism of relatively established actors, and, on the other, confrontational/critical environmentalism of new actors. Unlike the former, the latter politicizes environmental issues to its full extent. While the actors pursuing mainstream environmentalism tend to act individually and use Twitter rather as a broadcast platform, the actors of confrontational/critical environmentalism form connections, interact, and engage in concerted action to voice environmental concerns, thereby incubating an environmental movement on Twitter within the increasingly authoritarian Turkish context. Our findings suggest that Twitter performs highly different functions within the same context depending on the discourses, identities, and interests of environmental actors.
Citation - WoS: 2
Citation - Scopus: 1
An Examination of the Factor Structure of the Turkish Version of the Online Learning Environment Survey
(Turkish Education Assoc, 2011) Ozkok, Alev; Yurdugul, Halil; Aşkar, Petek; Özkök, Güldem Alev
The primary aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Online Learning Environment Survey (OLES) in postsecondary distance education. The OLES is a 54 item instrument for assessing social-psychological perceptions among distance education students. The second aim was to investigate empirically perception of the online learning environment in Turkish context. This paper consisted of three models explaining online learning environments in the Turkish context. Model I, based on relations of originally item-construct reported by Trinidad, Aldridge & Fraser, (2004), was analyzed with gathered data from Turkey setting by the translation, adaptation, and validation of the Online Learning Environment Survey (OLES) (Trinidad, Aldridge & Fraser, 2004) in a new Turkish-language form. In Model I, the OLES was designed to measure nine dimensions of online educational environment. The fit of the proposed multidimensional factor structure was examined with 902 post-secondary distance education students in two institutions. Model II, based on relations of emprically item-construct which were obtained with principal component analysis, was investigated with first-order confirmatory factor analysis. Model II consist of twelve subconstructs. Model III, with a higher-order construct with twelve first-order factors of OLES-TR, was perfectly represented as a general online learning environments trait rather than the OLES.
Fashioning Anti-Environmentalism in Turkey: the Campaign Against the Bergama Movement
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2022-03-25) Özen, H.
[No abstract available]
Citation - WoS: 15
Citation - Scopus: 16
Interpellating the People' Against Environmentalists: the Authoritarian Populist Response To Environmental Mobilizations in Turkey
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2022-08) Ozen, Hayriye
The connections between authoritarianism, populism and environmental politics have recently attracted scholarly interest. Yet less attention has been given to the 'hegemonic' struggle that populist forces wage in the field of the environment in order to reproduce their power under challenges of environmental mobilizations. This study is an attempt to contribute to filling this gap. Combining the insights of Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau on populism, it scrutinizes the ways the authoritarian populism of the AKP (Justice and Development Party) government in Turkey was performed against the counter-hegemonic challenges of environ-mental mobilizations. I demonstrate that the AKP tried to restore its challenged hegemony by securing popular support to its environmentally exploitative and authoritarian practices in two ways. One is the construction of an antagonistic frontier between environmental actors and those interpellated as 'the people', and the other is the appropriation of environmentalism. With the former, the AKP aimed both to legitimize the exercise of coercive force against environmental mobilizations, and to obscure the inequalities, injustices, and uneven relations created by its exploitative use of the natural and urban environments, whereas with the latter it endeavoured to rob environmentalism of its subversive potential. The examination of the AKP case shows that populist forces, which come to power by capitalizing on the crises of the previous hegemonic status quo, may also have the capacity to survive the crises during their rule by reshaping their populisms.
Citation - WoS: 18
Citation - Scopus: 26
The Justice and Development Party's Policies Towards Non-Muslim Minorities in Turkey
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010-03) Soner, B. Ali
[Abstract Not Available]
Manifestations and Drivers of Secondary Trauma Among Service Providers Working With Syrian Refugees: a Mixed-Methods Study From Istanbul, Turkey
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2024-09-23) Yükseker, Deniz; Meinhart, Melissa; Tekin, U[ur; Tasgin, Nese Sahin; Demirbas, Elif; Dasgupta, Anindita; Kaushal, Neeraj; El-Bassel, Nabila; Şahin Taşğın, Neşe
This mixed-methods study explores the incidence, manifestations, and drivers of secondary traumatic stress among service providers who work with Syrian refugees in Istanbul, Turkey. A survey of 104 social workers and other providers working in 17 public and civil society agencies in Istanbul in 2018 demonstrates that 54.81% had Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale scores indicating mild to severe secondary traumatic stress. In total, 28 qualitative interviews showed manifestations and possible drivers of secondary traumatic stress including weak supervision, heavy caseloads, and insecure working conditions. The findings suggest supervision and peer-support should be strengthened to address secondary traumatic stress among providers serving refugees.
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Citation - Scopus: 10
Migrant Integration in Turkey: Travels of a Concept Across Borders and Domains of Knowledge Production
(Oxford University Press, 2024-03-26) Yükseker, Deniz; Çeler, Zafer
In Turkey, the concept of migrant integration has risen to prominence in both academic and policy fields following the arrival of Syrian refugees. In this article, we first trace the resurgence of migrant integration studies in Western Europe in the past two decades following the decline of the discourse on multiculturalism. We argue that the policy concept of migrant integration has travelled to Turkey as part of the European Union's (EU) externalization of migration management; however, the term has been reshaped in Turkey through a process of vernacularization as displayed in official documents, programs, and projects funded by the EU and other supranational actors, and policy studies. Although the vernacularized form of integration, named 'harmonization', has gained specific connotations in the Turkish context, this article demonstrates that it still carries assimilationist features, since it cannot go beyond the limits of the nation-state as the fundamental unit of analysis, and cannot escape from the binary opposition of native citizens and migrants. The article elucidates how knowledge production by governmental institutions, supranational and international organizations, researchers, and the civil society helps legitimate a certain understanding of integration of migrants into the host society that assumes each group to be homogeneous in terms of socio-economic characteristics and culture, and which emphasizes Islam as a common denominator between the two. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Citation - WoS: 2
Citation - Scopus: 4
Migration, Ethnicity, and Divisions of Labour in the Zonguldak Coalfield, Turdkey
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2015-10-21) Kahveci̇, Erol
This article examines labour relations and labour conditions in the Zonguldak coalfield on the Black Sea coast in Turkey. From 1867, peasants from surrounding villages were obliged to work in the mines on a rotational basis. Peasants continued to work part-time in the mines after the end of this forced-labour regime in 1921, and after its reintroduction between 1940 and 1947. The article explores the significance of the recruitment of local villagers for the division of labour in the mines. Underground work was performed by low-skilled rotational peasant-miners, while migrants became skilled, full-time surface workers. Different ethnic origins added to the division of labour between these two groups. Attention is then turned to trade unionism in Zonguldak. The miners' trade union was controlled by permanent workers, mostly migrants of Laz origin, to the detriment of underground peasant-workers. Ethnographic fieldwork reveals that these divisions have persisted over many years.
Citation - WoS: 10
Citation - Scopus: 12
Mobilizing in a Hybrid Political System: the Artvin Case in Turkey
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020-01-20) Ozen, Hayriye; Dogu, Burak
Hybrid political systems, which are neither rigorously liberal nor authoritarian, create ambiguous political environments for protests and social movements. We argue in this study that the power-resistance dynamics become more sophisticated within the ambiguous context of hybrid systems, such as the one in Turkey, where democratic channels are not totally suspended, but significantly weakened. Examining an episode of contention between an anti-mining movement and the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) government on the issue of gold mining in Artvin, a city in the Northeastern Black Sea region, we demonstrate that in the electoral authoritarian context of Turkey the anti-mining movement gained a political role and significance well beyond its original specific aims, transforming into a conflict between those discontented with the authoritarian features of the existing system and the incumbents of that very system. Our study implies that social movements in hybrid political systems may turn into broader struggles not only because they open up political avenues for various groups to express their resentment with the prevailing undemocratic system, but also because the hegemonic forces attempt to consolidate the existing regime by mobilizing a popular support for the repression of these mobilizations.

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