Police Reform in 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.<br/><br/>Produced in association with the British Institute at Ankara