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Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey : Grassroots Women Activists, the European Union, and the Turkish State / by Aldikaçti Marshall, Gül

Table of Contents: “…Conceptualizing the actors' roles -- Gender equality, women's rights, and stipulations within the enlarging EU -- Before the 1999 Helsinki Summit : the state's gender regime in Turkey -- Active citizenship : women's collective response to the state's gender regime in Turkey, 1980-1999 -- Aftermath of the 1999 Helsinki Summit : the role of the EU and the Turkish state in changing gender policies in Turkey -- Women's grassroots activism in changing gender policies after the 1999 Helsinki Summit -- Conclusion : sustained-pressure in shifting winds -- Appendix A : Interviews -- Appendix B : Names of women’s organizations and journals in Turkish and English.…”
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Sex, Love, and Migration : Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic / by Bloch, Alexia

Subjects: “…Women foreign workers. fast (OCoLC)fst01734121 157179…”
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Anatomy of a Civil War : Sociopolitical Impacts of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey / by Gurses, Mehmet

Table of Contents: “…Toward an Integrated Theory of Civil War and Change; Part III; Three. War and Women; Four. War and Political Culture; Five. War and Religion; Part IV; Six. …”
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The Integration of Descendants of Migrants from Turkey in Stockholm : The TIES Study in Sweden /

Table of Contents: “…Valid and cumulative % -- Table 6.14 : Self-perception of oral proficiency of Turkish/Kurdish/Suryoyo language (in %) -- Table 6.16 : Language used when talking to friends, by ethnic group (in %) -- Table 6.17 : Language used when talking to father (in %) -- Table 6.19 : Language used when talking to brothers and sisters (in %) -- Table 6.20 : Transnational practices: forms of contact (in %) -- Table 6.21 : Transnational practices: size of remittances (in %) -- Table 6.23 : Desire to live in Turkey (in %) -- Table 7.1 : Distribution of age categories and mean age (in %) -- Table 7.2 : Main activity at time of interview, by gender and age (in %) -- Table 7.3 : Distribution of jobs at time of interview across industrial sectors, by gender and age (in %) -- Table 7.4 : Monthly wage after taxes at time of interview, by gender (in %) -- Table 7.A1 : Odds ratios for being employed or self-employed -- men and women -- Table 7.A2 : Odds ratios for being employed or self-employed -- women -- Table 7.A3 : Odds ratios for being employed or self-employed -- men -- Table 7.A4 : Odds ratios for being neither employed nor in education or training (NEET) -- men and women -- Figure 7.1 : Unemployment in % of the labour force, ages 20-24 and 25-64, 1963-2008 -- Figure 7.2 : Employed and self-employed at time of interview, by age and gender (in %).…”
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Jihad and Islam in World War I : Studies on the Ottoman Jihad on the Centenary of Snouck Hurgronje's "Holy War Made in Germany" /

Table of Contents: “…Şükrü Hanioğlu -- Propaganda or culture war : jihad, Islam, and nationalism in Turkish literature during World War I / Erol Köroğlu -- Gendering jihad : Ottoman Muslim women and war during the early twentieth century / Nicole van Os -- Architectural jihad : the "Halbmondlager" Mosque of Wünsdorf as an instrument of propaganda / Martin Gussone -- War, propaganda and architecture : Cemal Pasha's restoration of Islamic architecture in Damascus during World War I / Hans Theunissen -- The man who would be Caliph : Sharīfian propaganda in World War I / Joshua Teitelbaum -- A German "illusive love" : Rashīd Riḍā's perceptions of the First World War in the Muslim world / Umar Ryad -- John Buchan's British-designed jihad in Greenmantle / Ahmed K. al-Rawi.…”
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Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey : Transforming Ethnic Conflict / by Gurbuz, Mustafa Cagri

Table of Contents: “…-- Exogenous Shocks: Increasing Poverty and the Emergence of Kurdish Slums -- Constructing Competition through Resemblance: The Charity Initiatives -- "Education is Our Job": The Gülen Movement Goes to Slums -- Namûsa Me Azadîya Me Ye: The Democratic Free Women's Movement -- Religious Public Symbolism: Hizbullah Finds Its Niche -- Civic Activism and Conflict Transformation -- 6. …”
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