Institution: | Leiden University |
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Year: | 31 |
Keywords: | Women, Gezi, Istanbul, Turkey, civil resistance, feminism, emancipation, birth control, AKP |
Record ID: | 1259592 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/1887/32821 |
This thesis is about the role of women organizations in the Gezi protests in Istanbul in 2013. The theory "civil resistance" is used. The research question is: "What has motivated several non-environmentalist women’s organizations in Istanbul to actively participate in the Gezi protests? Have these organizations mobilized women?"