State control of civil society organizations: the case of Turkey

Doyle, Jessica

doi:10.1080/13510347.2016.1159555

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“…Accordingly, although civil society has contributed to the development of social capital, active citizenship and conventional and unconventional forms of participation, there is little evidence that civic values have a positive effect on democracy in Turkey (Bee & Chrona, 2017;Çakmaklı, 2015;Enneli, 2011;Erdoğan & Uyan-Semerci, 2017;Sümer & Eslen-Ziya, 2015). Some demonstrated that civil society has been polarized and subject to government's restrictive attempts (Doyle, 2017;Özler & Obach, 2018;Yabanci, 2016). Sarkissian and Özler (2013) discussed how religious groups have instrumentalised civil society to articulate and promote particularistic interests.…”

Section: Turkey's Competitive Authoritarian Regime and Civil Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Turkey’s tamed civil society: Containment and appropriation under a competitive authoritarian regime

Yabancı

2019

Journal of Civil Society

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Under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule, Turkey's civil society has enlarged both in size and diversity of civic engagement. This development is puzzling since Turkey's weak democratic credentials do not allow an enabling political and legal setting for civil society's expansion. This study argues that the expansion can be explained through a particular dilemma of rulers in competitive-authoritarian (CA) regimes. The AKP is caught between the conflicting interests of appropriating and containing civil society. While the government needs to cherish civil society to sustain CA regime, it also needs to repress it, as civil society is the only arena where dissenting social forces can still carve pockets of resistance and challenge the dominant paradigms of the regime. Based on extensive fieldwork, this study discusses the patterns of containment and appropriation that have led to the steady expansion of civil society under pressure. The AKP's dilemma has also rendered Turkey's civil society 'tamed', namely politicized, disabled and segregated. The study broadens the understanding of relations between civil society and the state in CA regimes by offering essential insights into how these regimes are sustained, entrenched and also contested through and within civil society.

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Section: Turkey's Competitive Authoritarian Regime and Civil Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Turkey’s tamed civil society: Containment and appropriation under a competitive authoritarian regime

Yabancı

2019

Journal of Civil Society

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“…Scholars also concentrate on particular type of CSOs -i.e. the environmentalist groups (Boşnak 2016), Kurdish CSOs (Kaliber, 2016), women's human rights organizations (Doyle, 2017 and, and trade unions (Karadağ and Usta, 2011). Yet, there are still others who tried to account for diversity among CSOs in terms of capacity, issue area, as well as, ideology (Zihnioğlu 2013).…”

Section: The Literature On the Eu's Empowerment Of Turkish Civil Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Turkish Civil Society in Political Decision Making

Sönmez¹

2019

Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi

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Sivil toplumun siyasi karar almadaki rolünün etkinleştirilmesi şeklindeki normatif ideal bugün siyaset bilimciler tarafından kabul görmektedir ve demokrasinin konsolidasyonu açısından kaçınılmazdır. Böyle bir rolün analizi, siyaset bilimi çalışmaları açısından ve özellikle de demokrasi teorisi için merkezi öneme sahiptir. Böyle bir rolün değerlendirilebilmesi için, sivil toplum örgütlerinin siyasi sistemle ve aktörleriyle etkileşiminin, siyasa yapım sürecindeki etkinliğinin ve tüm bunların siyasa çıktıları üzerindeki etkisinin incelenmesi gerekir. Bu makale, öncelikle Avrupa Birliği (AB) sürecinin Türkiye'deki sivil toplum alanının dönüşümü üzerindeki etkilerini tartışan literatürü içerik ve yöntem biçiminden inceleyecek, daha sonra ilgili literatürde sivil toplum örgütlerinin karar alma süreçlerine katılımı ile ilgili ampirik çalışmaların eksikliğine dikkat çekecektir. Makale, çıkar grubu etkisi ile ilgili literatürde yararlanılan metodolojik yaklaşımların uygunluğunu ortaya koyacak ve bu katkılardan Türk sivil toplumu ile ilgili literatürün nasıl yararlanabileceğini örneklerle açıklayacaktır. Makale, Türkiye'deki sivil toplumun niteliklerinin ve karar alma süreçleri ile olan ilişkisinin dönüşümünün ampirik olarak çalışılmasına yönelik ihtiyaca dikkat çekmektedir.

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“…The AKP also punished dissenting media conglomerates by hindering their wider business interests and by imposing tax bills and fines (Ye il, 2014). It also began to establish government sponsored civil society organisations, squeezing out pre-existing civil society organisations (Doyle, 2017).…”

Section: Phase 1 (2002-2007): Ambivalent Democratsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The HDP, the AKP and the Battle for Turkish Democracy

Kaya

Whiting

2018

Ethnopolitics

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State control of civil society organizations: the case of Turkey

Cited by 31 publications

References 33 publications

Turkey’s tamed civil society: Containment and appropriation under a competitive authoritarian regime

Turkey’s tamed civil society: Containment and appropriation under a competitive authoritarian regime

The Role of Turkish Civil Society in Political Decision Making

The HDP, the AKP and the Battle for Turkish Democracy

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