Istar Gozaydin
İştar Gözaydın is a professor of law and politics. Gözaydın received her MCJ (Master of Comparative Jurisprudence) at New York University, School of Law (1987); and Ph.D. at Istanbul University (1992). Gözaydın is a founder and currently a member of the executive committee of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, a human rights organization in Turkey. Professor Gözaydın was a research fellow at the University of London, Birkbeck College in 2009 and she was a Fulbright scholar in the U.S. in 1986-87. İştar Gözaydın’s publications include “Management of Religion in Turkey”: the Diyanet and Beyond” in Özgür Heval Çınar & Mine Yıldırım (ed.s): Freedom of Religion and Belief in Turkey, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2014, 10-35; “Ahmet Davutoğlu: Role as an Islamic Scholar Shaping Turkey’s Foreign Policy” in Nassef Manabilang Adiong (ed.): Islam and International Relations: Diverse Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013; “Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı,” in John L. Esposito (ed): Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, Oxford University Press, February 2009; “The Fethullah Gülen Movement and Politics in Turkey : a chance for Democratization or a Trojan Horse?:”, Democratization, vol. 16 no. 6 (December 2009), 1214-1236; “Religion, Politics and the Politics of Religion in Turkey”, in Dietrich Jung & Catharina Raudvere (ed.), Religion, Politics and Turkey's EU Accession, Palgrave-Macmillan, september 2008, 159-176; “Diyanet and Politics”, The Muslim World, vol. 98, no. 2/3 (april/july 2008) 216-227; “Turkey: A Women’s History,” in Bonnie G. Smith (ed): The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, v.4, Oxford University Press, 2008, 255-258; "Adding Injury to Injury", in Evil, Law and the State: Issues in State Power and Violence, ed. John Parry, Rodopi Press, 59-69, Amsterdam / New York, NY 2006.
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abortion, artificial insemination, C-section, and population growth as
examples of a social engineering project aiming to transform the social
body of Turkey into one with ‘conservative’ values nourished by religious
sentiments. This project of social engineering towards an imagined social
body where the ‘good’ has already been designed and pre-determined is very
similar to the practices of the early Republican elite of Turkey in the 1920s
and 30s to achieve their own ‘good’ for the people.
Thus, both with the internal dynamics and changing paradigms in the
world, we think that religion should be considered, at the legal level, within
the framework of the two higher constitutional principles in the Turkey of
the 2000s, which without any doubt has a very different setting from that
of 1924. One of these principles is freedom of religion and belief (including
conscience) and the other is laicism. While the freedom to adopt and manifest
a religion is fundamental, freedom from religion must also be afforded the
same level of respect and protection. We believe that society must strive to
achieve this balance for the sake of liberty and equality however challenging
that continues to be.
abortion, artificial insemination, C-section, and population growth as
examples of a social engineering project aiming to transform the social
body of Turkey into one with ‘conservative’ values nourished by religious
sentiments. This project of social engineering towards an imagined social
body where the ‘good’ has already been designed and pre-determined is very
similar to the practices of the early Republican elite of Turkey in the 1920s
and 30s to achieve their own ‘good’ for the people.
Thus, both with the internal dynamics and changing paradigms in the
world, we think that religion should be considered, at the legal level, within
the framework of the two higher constitutional principles in the Turkey of
the 2000s, which without any doubt has a very different setting from that
of 1924. One of these principles is freedom of religion and belief (including
conscience) and the other is laicism. While the freedom to adopt and manifest
a religion is fundamental, freedom from religion must also be afforded the
same level of respect and protection. We believe that society must strive to
achieve this balance for the sake of liberty and equality however challenging
that continues to be.