Women, power and political discourse in Turkey

Zum Vortrag:

The presentation is divided into three main parts: firstly, I will probe the question of women’s instrumental roles and agency in the process of nation building in early Republican Turkey. The issue I address in this part of the presentation is whether the leaders of the Turkish Republic have considered or ignored women’s demands for their rights. I would like to demonstrate how women asserted their agency and offered alternative histories to shape their own histories of the early Republican Turkey. Secondly, I will explore how the feminist discourse and writing have developed in Turkey between 1970-1990. This part of the presentation will argue that women in Turkey were emancipated but remained unliberated. Lastly, I will present secular and Islamists women’s concerns about women’s rights in contemporary Turkey. I will discuss whether there are grounds for solidarity between Islamist and secular women concerning women’s rights in contemporary Turkey.

Zur Vortragenden:

İREM ÖZGOREN KINLI studied at Marmara University (Turkey), Francophone Department of Political and Administrative Sciences, International Relations at Ege University (Turkey), and Political Sociology at Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne (France). She graduated from this university in 2011 with a PhD in Political Science. She has been working as a full-time lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Izmir Kâtip Celebi University (Turkey) since March 2016.