Femicide in Turkey

September 11 - 12 PM - 306 Coble Hall and on Zoom.

Description: Dr. Cetin will discuss the problem of femicides in Turkey, placing it in a global context.  He will focus on the following topics: The Istanbul Convention, statistics on femicides, different forms of femicides, social causes of it, legal legislation and other measures taken to prevent femicides. He will discuss the women's movement and the changing status of women in Turkey, and in relation to this, the phenomenon that he has labelled “Revolt Killings,” which he suggests constitutes a significant part of today's femicides of Turkey.

Speaker: Ihsan Cetin is the Associate Professor of Sociology in Namik Kemal University in Tekirdağ, Turkey.  He holds a PhD in Sociology from University of Ege, Izmir. His research focuses on urban sociology, sociology of space, ethnicity, femicide, international migration and refugee studies.  Dr. Cetin is the author most recently of “Syrian Refugees in Germany,” in Contemporary Analysis on Syrian Immigration Issue in Europe and Turkey, ed. M.S. Bilgin (Ankara: Akçağ Press. 2021), Gecekondunun Mekan Sosyolojisi [Gecekondus’ Sociology of Space], Yaba Press, Istanbul, 2012, and Midyat’ta Etnik Gruplar [Ethnic Groups in Midyat], (Yaba Press, Istanbul, 2014).  His numerous articles have appeared in journals such Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Journal of Humanitas, Humanitas International Journal of Social Sciences, and Journal of International Women’s Studies.