Police Reform in Turkey: Human Security, Gender and State Violence Under Erdoğan

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How has the supposedly liberalizing project of police reform in Turkey become central to the increasingly authoritarian regime of Erdogan’s AKP Party? Engaging political theory and a gender studies perspective, this book traces the implementation of security sector reform in Turkey, showing how various agents, including Islamist policy-makers, Turkish police and the women’s movement in Turkey have contributed to and resisted growing police powers. A critical study which also employs case studies, this is a timely intervention on the ‘authoritarian turn’ in Turkey and contributes to a growing number of studies of neoliberalism and security in the context of liberal internationalism. Cover Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The new liberal geoculture 2 Moralist philosophy of the police reform 3 Feminist interventions in and against the state 4 State violence against politically active women Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index