Binnaz Toprak
Binnaz Toprak is a professor and currently Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University, Istanbul. She has written extensively, both in Turkish and English, on political Islam in Turkey. Her works include the earlier book, Islam and Political Development in Turkey, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981, and two recent articles, "Islam and Democracy in Turkey," Turkish Studies, Vol. 6, No.2, June 2005, 167-186, and "Economic Development versus Cultural Transformation: Projects of Modernity in Japan and Turkey," New Perspectives on Turkey, No. 35, Fall, 2006, 85-128. She has also jointly conducted three recent research projects based on survey research that probed into the attitudes of the Turkish public towards Islam, secularism, and women. The ensuing co-authored books have been published in Turkish. See Ali Çarkoğlu and Binnaz Toprak, Türkiye'de Din, Toplum ve Siyaset (Religion, Society and Politics in Turkey), İstanbul: TESEV Yayınları, 2000; Ersin Kalaycıoğlu and Binnaz Toprak, İş Yaşamı, Üst Yönetim ve Siyasette Kadın (Women in the Job Force, Top Administration and Politics), İstanbul, TESEV Yayınları, 2004; and Ali Çarkoğlu and Binnaz Toprak, Değişen Türkiye'de Din, Toplum ve Siyaset (Religion, Society and Politics in a Changing Turkey), TESEV Yayınları, 2006, translated into and English and published by TESEV, 2007, under the tile Religion, Society and Politics in a Changing Turkey.
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The analysis of the headscarf controversy cannot simply be based on arguments of liberal politics. Rather, it has to be analyzed within its historical context. In Turkey, the headscarf has assumed a symbolic character that refers to different historical memories and different understandings of modernity. For both sides of this conflict, the headscarf is at the center of the debate because the debate is, in its essence, about gender relations.
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