Institutional Process of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women (KSGM)

Volume: 24 Number: 24 March 1, 2011
  • Dr. Melike Kaplan
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Institutional Process of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women (KSGM)

Abstract

This study covers the research on the present situation of the women’s studies in Turkey which has become an important issue in recent years. The whole study is a wide-ranging work, resulting from a two year-anthropological fieldwork. KSGM (Directorate General on the Status of Women) as an official institution, and its activities are thoroughly evaluated. This study examines women’s movement based on KSGM. In the research, interviews have been made with women in different institutions (universities and non-governmental organizations, etc.). Even though comparisons have been made in the study, results of the interviews which have been made with eight women who work as experts, civil servants and manager at KSGM is evaluted within the framework of the process of institutionalization of Turkish women’s movement. The article is a of the developments concerning women’s rights starting with a brief assessment of what happened in the Ottoman period and after the Republic. The essay evalutes the process of women’s movement in Turkey by studying KSGM as an example of official institutionalization.

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Publication Date

March 1, 2011

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March 24, 2015

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Year 2011 Volume: 24 Number: 24

APA
Kaplan, D. M. (2011). Institutional Process of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women (KSGM). Journal of Social Policy Studies, 24(24), 37-46. https://doi.org/10.21560/spcd.48743
AMA
1.Kaplan DM. Institutional Process of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women (KSGM). Journal of Social Policy Studies. 2011;24(24):37-46. doi:10.21560/spcd.48743
Chicago
Kaplan, Dr. Melike. 2011. “Institutional Process of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women (KSGM)”. Journal of Social Policy Studies 24 (24): 37-46. https://doi.org/10.21560/spcd.48743.
EndNote
Kaplan DM (March 1, 2011) Institutional Process of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women (KSGM). Journal of Social Policy Studies 24 24 37–46.
IEEE
[1]D. M. Kaplan, “Institutional Process of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women (KSGM)”, Journal of Social Policy Studies, vol. 24, no. 24, pp. 37–46, Mar. 2011, doi: 10.21560/spcd.48743.
ISNAD
Kaplan, Dr. Melike. “Institutional Process of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women (KSGM)”. Journal of Social Policy Studies 24/24 (March 1, 2011): 37-46. https://doi.org/10.21560/spcd.48743.
JAMA
1.Kaplan DM. Institutional Process of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women (KSGM). Journal of Social Policy Studies. 2011;24:37–46.
MLA
Kaplan, Dr. Melike. “Institutional Process of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women (KSGM)”. Journal of Social Policy Studies, vol. 24, no. 24, Mar. 2011, pp. 37-46, doi:10.21560/spcd.48743.
Vancouver
1.Dr. Melike Kaplan. Institutional Process of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women (KSGM). Journal of Social Policy Studies. 2011 Mar. 1;24(24):37-46. doi:10.21560/spcd.48743