This article investigates the nature, causes, and consequences of child poverty and youth unemployment in Turkey, which is a transition country between the East and the West. It is argued that this in‐betweenness leads to a gap between the intended goals and outcomes of relevant policies. The article places a special emphasis on how the post‐1980 neoliberal turn has shaped the policy orientation of successive governments, and transformed the nature of child poverty and youth unemployment in Turkey, making the socioeconomic inequalities worse while concentrating these problems into major urban centers. It is observed that Turkey still does not have a long‐term policy outlook regarding the future of child poverty and youth unemployment, such that those two issues could be treated as parts of the same problem. The same observation is also made about the related policy implementation structure. It is concluded that there is a need for a comprehensive approach, taking into account the needs and problems of the individual at different stages of life as a whole; paying attention to the interdependencies across the outcomes of state intervention in different policy areas; and ensuring policy coordination within and across currently fragmented policy implementation structures in different fields.
This article aims to provide an alternative critical reading of Turkey-European Union (EU) relations, by contending that Turkey's EU accession process has been instrumental in changing the contours of the transformation of Turkish economy and its governance as part of its neoliberal restructuring. However, the "transformative power" attributed to the EU's enlargement strategy by the EU Commission has been somewhat debatable since the 2008 global financial crisis as reflected in the slowdown of the accession process. With the rising authoritarian tendencies in its domestic governance, the protracted saga of Turkey's quest for the EU membership is back to square one, as the proposal for the modernisation of the Customs Union underlines "respect for democracy and fundamental rights" as an indispensable basis for the future of the relations. ÖZETTürkiye-Avrupa Birliği (AB) ilişkilerini eleştirel bir perspektiften değerlendirmeyi amaçlayan bu makalede, Türkiye'nin AB'ne katılım sürecinin, Türkiye ekonomisinin ve kurumsal yapısının neoliberal yeniden yapılanma çerçevesindeki dönüşümünde etkin bir rol oynadığı ileri sürülmektedir. Ancak, katılım sürecini değerlendiren AB Komisyonu tarafından, AB'nin genişleme stratejisine atfedilen "dönüştürücü güç", katılım sürecinin yavaşlamasında da yansımasını bulduğu gibi, 2008 küresel finansal krizi sonrasında tartışmalı hale gelmektedir. Ülke yönetiminde belirginleşen otoriterleşme eğilimi ile birlikte, "demokrasi ve temel haklara saygı"nın, ilişkilerin geleceği için vazgeçilmez olduğunu bir kez daha hatırlatan Gümrük Birliği'nin modernizasyonu önerisi, Türkiye'nin müzminleşen AB üyeliği macerasının yerinde saydığını göstermektedir.anahtar Kelimeler: Türkiye-AB ilişkileri, AB katılım süreci, AB'nin dönüşürücü gücü, neoliberal yeniden yapılanma 1 "Turkey's red-meat producers' association said it was expelling 40 Holstein Friesian cattle. Dutch cows, like Dutch diplomats, were no longer welcome in Turkey. " S. Tisdal, "How Erdoğan's ruthless drive for more power is shaking a
Turkey’s full participation in the European Union’s Education and Youth Programmes (i.e., Erasmus+Programme) since 2004 has been one of the ongoing components of Turkey–EU relations. As indicated bythe Director of the National Agency of Turkey in 2021, the programme has supported 700,000 participantsfrom Turkey in 36,000 projects over the course of 17 years. Youth organisations taking part in the learningmobility opportunities of the youth component of the Erasmus+ programme are just one of the programme’smany beneficiaries.In an effort to perform a theoretical analysis of the effects of Erasmus+ on youth organisations in Turkey,this article suggests that owing to their contextual characteristics, youth organisations have the potential totransform into learning organisation stimulated by their involvement in Erasmus+ youth projects. To answerhow Erasmus+ may act as a trigger for this, qualitative data were collected from fifteen youth organisationsfrom Turkey active in the programme and analysed around four components of the integrated model onlearning organisation developed by Örtenblad (2004) (i.e., organisational learning, learning at work, learningclimate and learning structure). The findings suggest that three major factors, namely organisationalconsciousness on learning, participatory mechanisms in the organisation and team-based working structures,are mutually reinforcing characteristics able to help youth organisations transform into learning organisationthrough participation in Erasmus+/YiA training and support activities.
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