Women in Turkey: Prospects and Challenges, Spring 2007

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Since the founding of the Turkish Republic, women have been central to its image as viewed from abroad. They have also fi gured strongly into competing visions among domestic political groups. With this issue of TPQ we hope to look beyond the symbolism women have come to represent and identify real life trends women in Turkey are experiencing – along with their implications for economic development, human rights, and the consolidation of Turkish democracy.

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CONTRIBUTOR

Nigâr Göksel

D. Nigar Goksel has been Editor-in-Chief of the Istanbul-based Turkish Policy Quarterly (TPQ) since 2002 and Turkey and Cyprus Analyst for Crisis Group's Turkey/Cyprus Project since April 2015. She was Senior Analyst at the European Stability Initiative (ESI) between 2004-11, where she covered Turkey and the Caucasus. In Spring 2014, she joined FRIDE as associate fellow, focusing on the Black Sea region. She is a regular contributor to the German Marshall Fund’s ‘On Turkey’ series and writes frequently for Al Jazeera International. Nigar is also registered as an independent consultant for political analysis and project management. She has designed a range of reconciliation and civil society capacity-building initiatives in Turkey and the South Caucasus.

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