...Emrah Yildiz Since the early 2000s, an increasing number of lgbt + and queer Iranians have sought asylum through the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Turkey. As recent queer and feminist scholarship has demonstrated, a “gay enough” litmus test often determines whether...

... Others.” American Anthropologist 104.3 ( 2002 ): 783 -90. Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa. “Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Criticism 12.1 ( 2001 ): 112 -40. Ahmad, Feroz. The Making of Modern Turkey . London...

...? This article approaches these questions from an unusual angle, focusing on the passing of competition and antitrust laws and the establishment of a Competition Authority in Turkey alongside the story of a fictional institute called The Clock Setting Institute in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's novel of the same name...

...Dicle Koğacioğlu This article begins with the observation that the honor crime (the murder of a woman by her family because of actual or deemed sexual acts that are considered an offense to the culturally defined terms of family honor) has received increasing attention in Turkey during the last...

...Ayse Parla This article explores the potentials for and pitfalls of the virtually nonexistent terrain of rights for undocumented migrants in Turkey to engage the broader question of whether the language of rights can serve emancipatory ends for subordinated groups. As in other capitalist regimes...

...Timothy Bewes This article discusses Dicle Koğacıoğlu's 2004 essay “The Tradition Effect: Framing Honor Crimes in Turkey.” It considers Koğacıoğlu's formulation of the “tradition effect” in the light of several other “effects” put forward by social theorists and philosophers: the “individual effect...

... value and on the critical analysis of diverse representations of the honor crime in Germany, Sweden, Palestine, Turkey, Jordan, and elsewhere, the author explores how the seductive power of the honor crime, mixing sexual titillation and moral horror, and its truly polymorphous interpretive capacity have...

... for the whole of Turkey and become visible in the national public space? To what extent would this remain a local event interesting only to the Kurds? In other words, was there a need to raise the mourning for the dead boys to a universal matter, or should the mourning remain private and particular...

.... Kog˘ acıog˘  lu, Dicle. “Knowledge, Practice, and Political Community: The Making of the ‘Custom’ in Turkey.” 22.1: 172–228. Lee, Christopher. “Rhythm and the Cold War Imaginary: Listening to John Adams’s Nixon in China.” 22.2/3...

... and Europe. Emerging from the forced migrations and population exchanges between Greece and Turkey that followed World War I, the collapse of the Ottoman empire, and the foundation of the Turkish Republic, the creolized historical...

... reflection of the human sciences and their potential to become a bridge between modern Turkey and the classic European heritage. Kemal Atatürk’s reforms were seen as antitraditional nationalism, “the establishment of a fantastic relation to a primal Turkish identity, technological modernization...

... Sentinel 6 Apr. 1993 . Koğacıoğlu Dicle . `` The Tradition Effect: Framing Honor Crimes in Turkey .'' differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 15.2 ( 2004 ): 118 – 51 . Malkin Michelle . `` Honor Killings in Dallas? Muslim Father Sought in Murders of Young Daughters...

...Figure 1 Obelisk of Theodosius 1. Istanbul, Turkey Photograph by Denise Riley (2010) ...

... an entire country with a population the size of Germany or Turkey unbound, relocated, and dispersed—sometimes forcefully—forming vast and unstable “contact zones” (to modify a term coined by Pratt [8]), conglomerates of cultural fluidity and heterogeneity. This reality of mass migration has fed into a sober...

..., the great Oriental apostasy incarnate. Throughout the classical period of European culture Turkey was the Orient, Islam its most redoubtable and aggressive representative [. .  The Orient...

... theoretical moment is the domain where religion, public policy, and the law intersect. These issues play themselves out variously in different national contexts—India, France, Turkey, and the United States, just to name...

... in other parts of the world, linking documents and collections online. One of the requirements for Susan’s course is that it take advantage of these transnational efforts, and thus she looks forward to working with colleagues at feminist centers in Turkey, Hungary, Palestine, China, South Africa, and Chile...

...” or “Jacquot” (“Jacquerie Furthermore, Loulou is compared by others “à une dinde, à une bûche” (68) [to a turkey, a block of wood]. The townspeople’s expectation that he will have an entirely generic name representing not only...

.... If Eberhardt made of Mektoub a dignified female desire, Myriam Harry gave the term an even more explicit feminist cast three decades later in Les Derniers harems, a chronicle of the erosion of traditional Muslim practices among women in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. Registering her astonishment at seeing a young...