Police Reform in Turkey: Human Security, Gender and State Violence Under Erdogan (Contemporary Turkey)

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. Produced in association with the British Institute at Ankara

Funda Hülagü is currently on the teaching staff at the University of Marburg, Germany. She was previously Assistant Professor at Maltepe University, Turkey and Mersin University, Turkey. She has published over 10 peer reviewed articles, including in Science & Society and Journal für Entwicklungspolitik.