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FertilityPolicies · Fertility, Public Policies, and Women in Turkey in Comparative Perspective

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-01-15 → 2018-01-14
Финансиране от ЕС: 145 846 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Държавната политика в Турция за насърчаване на ражданията се анализира чрез примери като достъпа до аборти и цезарови сечения. Това помага да се разберат промените в семейните политики и техните последици за правата на жените.

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Fertility, Public Policies, and Women in Turkey in Comparative Perspective

The project has studied the rise of new pronatalism and its reflections in public policy in contemporary Turkey. The term of pronatalism refers to the idea of promoting childbirth, while public policies can have direct and indirect impacts on fertility behaviour. Since the acceptance of Turkey’s candidacy for European Union (EU) membership in 1999, the Turkish governments carried out reforms in public policies as a part of a legislative harmonization process. The reconciliation of work and family life was mentioned as one aim of these reforms, although it appeared as a by-product of the main goal of EU membership. This was consistent with the fact that Turkey had not yet suffered from demographic changes such as below-replacement level fertility rates and population aging, which can have negative impacts on the labour markets and public finances. While the approach of the Turkish governments toward the EU has gradually become more complicated, the changes in public policies, such as the family policy, have come to seem more substantial and intentional, spreading to the policy areas of reproductive health as well. The policy changes were still justified with a reference to demographic and policymaking trends in Europe. Yet, some of the policy measures, such as those concerning the access to abortion and caesarean sections, appeared at odds with the EU policy approaches and worrisome regarding their gender implications. The objectives of the project include an analysis of the origins, development and nature of new pronatalism and the relevant policy changes in contemporary Turkey; the investigation of specific policy measures within the policy area; and the examination of gender implications.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This project aims to analyse the development and nature of the fertility policy in Turkey in the last decade under the rule by the AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi – Justice and Development Party). Some of the policy measures were first introduced as a part of legislative harmonization for the country’s EU accession process, while the decline in fertility rates has not been a pressing issue for Turkey as it is for EU countries. However, the policy programme, now famous with the slogan of “minimum three children,” was gradually developed by the AKP government against the background of its broader political agenda of cultural conservatism and economic liberalism. Accordingly, the fertility policy, the project claims, rests on two major goals: to counteract the changing position of women in society and to increase the country’s competitiveness as an emerging market economy. The project will examine the origins of the policy, the nature of policy measures and institutional change, and their gender implications. Drawing on the perspective of historical institutionalism, the project is designed as a qualitative case study, employing the methods of process tracing and comparative and interpretive analysis, and a variety of data collection strategies such as archival research, semi-structured interviews, and secondary sources. It will make significant contributions to the fields of comparative fertility policy studies, EU policy transfer, and historical institutionalism, with a unique case study of a context of late industrialization and political Islam. It will also contribute to public debates and women-friendly policy advocacy initiatives in Turkey.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

KOC UNIVERSITY · IstanbulКоординаторТурция