Contentious welfare: The Kurdish conflict and social policy as counterinsurgency in Turkey

Yoltar, Çağrı; Yörük, Erdem

doi:10.1111/gove.12500

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“…This prioritization, alongside the strong quantitative associations between Kurdish ethnic identity and Green Card-holding status in 2010, suggests that Kurdish unrest has been a shaping factor in the development of free health care provision in Turkey. Indeed, Turkish governments have instrumentalized the program for the containment of Kurdish unrest by trying to buy off the Kurdish poor (Yoltar and Yörük 2021).…”

Section: The 1990s: the Intensifying Electoral Competition And The Ri...mentioning

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The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey

Yörük¹

2022

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In The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey, author Erdem Yörük provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced employment-based social security. This book is one of the results of Yörük’s European Research Council-funded project, which compares the political dynamics in several emerging markets in order to develop a new political theory of welfare in the global south. As such, this book is an ambitious analytical and empirical contribution to understanding the causes of a sweeping shift in the nature of state welfare provision in Turkey during the recent decades—part of a global trend that extends far beyond Turkey. Most scholarship about Turkey and similar countries has explained this shift toward poor relief as a response to demographic and structural changes including aging populations, the decline in the economic weight of industry, and the informalization of labor, while ignoring the effect of grassroots politics. In order to overcome these theoretical shortages in the literature, the book revisits concepts of political containment and political mobilization from the earlier literature on the mid-twentieth-century welfare state development and incorporates the effects of grassroots politics in order to understand the recent welfare system shift as it materialized in Turkey, where a new matrix of political dynamics has produced new large-scale social assistance programs.

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The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey

Yörük¹

2022

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“…Considering the related literature, it is seen that there are lots of educational studies related to bilingual children with disadvantages in multicultural and multilingual countries (Baker, 2014;Caughy & Owen, 2015;Guhn et al, 2016;Irani & Purmohammad, 2022;Wangke et al, 2021) while studies on different languages in Turkey are mainly conducted in the fields of political sciences (Güneş & Gürer, 2018;Gürses, 2020;Yoltar & Yörük, 2020;Kurt, 2019) and linguistics (Arslan, 2015;Çelebi et al, 2015;Kasap, 2015;Kasap, 2021;Zeydanlıoglu, 2012) and there is a limited number of studies in the field of education (Özfidan, 2017;Yorgun & Sak, 2021;Susar et al, 2019).…”

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Investigation of bilingual first-grade students’ school readiness

Koşan

ERKAN

2022

TPICD

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This study was designed as a case study and the school readiness of first-grade bilingual students speaking Turkish and Kurdish was examined according to gender, whether they had preschool education, the language spoken at home, the number of siblings, and the educational background of their parents. The study group consisted of 300 children who started first grade in primary school in Viranşehir district of Şanlıurfa province, Turkey, in the 2014-2015 academic years and 15 first grade teachers working in this province. The data were collected using the Metropolitan Readiness Test, semi-structured Teacher Interview Form, and Family Information Form. The obtained data were evaluated with a two-way analysis of variance and content analysis. The results of this study revealed that receiving preschool education, the language spoken at home, the number of siblings, and the educational background of parents made a significant difference in the school readiness of the children, but the gender did not make a significant difference. As a result of the interviews with the primary school first-grade teachers, it was determined that children who received preschool education started primary school more ready than those who did not and that the family played an important role in school readiness.

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Dangerous Knowledge and Proxy-Reasons: A Kurdish Woman’s Therapeutic Attempts

Weiss

2024

Medical Anthropology

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Contentious welfare: The Kurdish conflict and social policy as counterinsurgency in Turkey

Abstract: The period since the 1990s has witnessed the expanding political influence of the Kurdish movement across the country as well as a transformation in the welfare system, manifesting itself mainly in the emergence of extensive social assistance programs. While

Cited by 5 publications

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The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey

The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey

Investigation of bilingual first-grade students’ school readiness

Dangerous Knowledge and Proxy-Reasons: A Kurdish Woman’s Therapeutic Attempts

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