• Corpus ID: 55854773

Women and Local Democracy in Turkey

@inproceedings{aha2010WomenAL,
  title={Women and Local Democracy in Turkey},
  author={{\"O}mer Çaha},
  year={2010}
}

• Ömer Çaha
• Published 2010
• Political Science

This study focuses on the role of women's civil soc iety organizations in developing women's participation in political activ ities at a local level in Turkey. Based upon an empirical study conducted on ten women's organizations in Istanbul, it tries to answer the following questions: "to wha t extent are women's organizations influencing the political agenda at the local level and how active are they in the area of social responsibility?" The article finds that d ue to the existence of barriers between civil society and local governments, and th e unwillingness of local governments to have close relations with civil soci ety organizations, women's civil society organizations are not active enough to domi nate the agenda of local politics. However, they seem to show a considerable success i n involving themselves in the area of social responsibility.