with Prof. Simten Coşar
Political Science, Faculty of Communication, Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey)

The feminist movement in Turkey had entered into a new stage by the 2000s. The rise of socio-cultural conservatism at the policy-making level, the differentiation between women’s rights and feminist politics, and the socio-political crisis that intensified throughout the decade and afterwards, were all factors that affected new challenges for the feminist agenda.

This lecture grows out of an effort to inquire into the state of feminist politics in contemporary Turkey with an historical perspective and through taking issue with the dominant features of the political structure-in-crisis.