Focusing on three important interrelated issues, Women and Civil Society in Turkey challenges the classical definition, developed in the West, of civil society

In contemporary Turkey, a plethora of Muslim NGOs, spanning the sectarian divide between Sunni and Alevi Muslims, has called into question statist sovereignty o

Civil society is often seen as male, structured in a way that excludes women from public and political life. Much feminist scholarship sees civil society and fe

Is civil society’s influence favorable to the evolvement of democratic structures and democratic gender relations? While traditional approaches would answer i