Nil Mutluer (PhD, Comparative Gender Studies, Central European University) is a social scientist, researcher and occasional journalist, TV programmer and consultant for civil society and art projects. She thinks and writes about gender, sexuality, ethnicity, belief systems, youth, migration, memory, nationalism, and everyday life, and is an advocate for rights and freedoms. Works and acts in the intersectional space of civil society, among academia, media and arts. She is currently affiliated with the Multiple Secularities Working Group at Leipzig University. Lives in the transnational space between Berlin and Istanbul. She calls in-betweenness home.
Contested terrains: youth in twenty-first century Turkey at the intersection of education, family, gender and public space
This special issue explores the contested terrain of youth in twenty-first-century Turkey across education, family, gender, public space, and everyday life. Drawing on recent ethnographic research, the articles examine how youth navigate authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and social conservatism under the AKP regime.
(Turkish Studies Volume 26, 2025 - Issue 5: Contested Terrains: Youth in 21st Century Turkey at the Intersection of Education, Family, Gender and Public Space)
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Decolonial encounters in Diyarbakır: imbricated subjectivities, gendered tactics, and everyday resistance
This article examines how the AKP’s centralized cultural and gendered policies in Diyarbakır – particularly after the 2016 trustee appointments – operate as part of a neocolonial project. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it explores how inhabitants and institutions of Diyarbakır respond not just through open resistance, but also through everyday negotiations and tactics.
(Routledge, TURKISH STUDIES p.1-28)
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This anthology addresses complex, interconnected issues, such as the rise of extremism and terrorism, diversity and minority rights, as well as the situation for freedom of expression in eight different countries, most of them with a Muslim majority population. Extremists recruit terrorists through social media, and target minorities as well as freedom loving people by utilizing their freedom of expression..
