Türkçe Öğretmenlerinin Erkek ve Kız Öğrencilerine Yönelik Toplumsal Cinsiyet Kimliği Merkezli Beklentileri, Algıları ve Tutumları

This study was aimed at investigating the gender-based expectations, perceptions, and attitudes o f a sample of 100 teachers randomly selected from four middle-status anatolian, super, and normal public lycees located in the metropolitan region of Ankara, the capital of Turkey. Results o f the study indicated that there are significant differences between the occupations that the teachers considered to be appropriate for their male and female students, betweeen and adjectives that the teachers attributed to their male and female students, between the academic areas that the teachers considered their male and female students have an ability in, and between the factors that the teachers identified as the causes for failure and success of their male and female students. More importantly the results o f this study indicated that the teachers’ expectations, perceptions, and attitudes toward their male and female students significantly reflect the underlying features of traditional gender discrimination.Bu çalışmada, Ankara metropoliten kent sınırları içinde yer alan, biri anadolu, biri süper ve ikisi de normal devlet lisesi olmak üzere, orta düzeydeki dört liseden rastlantısal bir yöntemle seçilmiş 100 kişiden oluşan bir öğretmen örnekleminin kız ve erkek öğrencilerine dönük cinsiyetçi beklenti, tutum ve algıları araştırıldı. Araştırma bulguları, öğretmenler tarafından kız ve erkek öğrencilere uygun görülen meslekler, kız ve erkek öğrencilere atfedilen sıfat ve özellikler, kız ve erkek öğrencilere uygun görülen akademik çalışma alanları ile kız ve erkek öğrencilerin başarı ve başarısızlıklarının nedenleri olarak tanımlanan faktörler arasında önemli farklılıklar olduğunu göstermektedir. Daha da önemlisi, araştırma bulguları, öğretmenlerin kız ve erkek öğrencilerine dönük beklenti, algı ve tutumlarının önemli ölçüde geleneksel cinsiyet ayırımcılığının özelliklerini yansıttığını göstermektedir

The impact of the European Union on Turkish politics

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Nursing Students Exposed to Domestic Violence and Their Perspectives on Violence

Aim:The study was performed in order to evaluate the domestic violence that the nursing students exposed and their perspectives on violence.Materials and Methods:The sample was consisted of 229 students who were selected by simple random sampling method. Percentage, Pearson's chi-square and Fisher's exact tests were used in order to perform statistical analysis by the SPSS 17.0.Results:26.6% of students were exposed to domestic violence, 34.4% of these students were exposed to psychological violence, 26.2% of them were exposed to physical violence, 39.3% of them were exposed to both psychological and physical violence. Among the students who were exposed to domestic violence, the violence application rate was significantly high (p<0.01).Conclusion:Our results has showed, predisposition to violent tendencies of the individuals who are personally exposed to domestic violence or any member of their family is exposed to domestic violence increase in a way that cannot be overlooked

Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey: Beyond the Narratives of Progress

Unpacking the core themes that are discussed in this collection, this article both offers a research agenda to re-analyse Turkey’s ‘authoritarian turn’ and mounts a methodological challenge to the conceptual frameworks that reinforce a strict analytical separation between the ‘economic’ and the ‘political’ factors. The paper problematises the temporal break in scholarly analyses of the AKP period and rejects the argument that the party’s methods of governance have shifted from an earlier ‘democratic’ model – defined by ‘hegemony’ – to an emergent ‘authoritarian’ one. In contrast, by retracing the mechanisms of the state-led reproduction of neoliberalism since 2003, the paper demonstrates that the party’s earlier ‘hegemonic’ activities were also shaped by authoritarian tendencies which manifested at various levels of governance

Enlargement preferences and policy making in the EU: impacts on Turkey

European Union policy changed considerably towards Turkey between 1997 and 1999. This paper analyses the circumstances surrounding this change, focusing on (a) the modification in the overall enlargement strategy of the EU and (b) the effect of the change in particular member states' preferences with regard to Turkish candidacy. We contend that these two developments converged to produce a rather dramatic alteration in policy towards Turkey from one of exclusion to one of inclusion

Turkish foreign policy, its domestic determinants and the role of the European Union

This paper investigates whether Turkish foreign policy has changed in recent years, specifically in line with the EU accession process, and tries to uncover the main dynamics behind these changes. The main proposition in the paper is that domestic changes in Turkey have led to a reshuffling of foreign policy objectives with a renewed emphasis on improving relations with the country's neighbours. The paper investigates whether such a policy change is complementary to the Turkish goal of inclusion in the EU, and further proposes that the changes in Turkish foreign policy since 2002 involve an increased activism partly in line with the EU accession process and as a result of the changes in domestic politics

Turkish Parliamentarians' Perspectives on Turkey's Relations with the European Union

Discusses the results of interviews conducted on a sample of deputies in the Turkish Grand National Assembly, which addressed the lack of information on Turkish opinion regarding the European Union (EU). Background on the relations of Turkey with EU; Assessment of the nature of Turkey's negotiations with the EU, through the analysis of the attitudes of Turkish political elite; Perceived obstacles to Turkish membership in the EU; Factors that influence the incorporation of Turkey into the EU structure