ABSTRACT
This chapter starts from the argument that an analysis of gender regimes that have emerged in the first two decades of 2000s in Turkey calls for a critical reading of the place that Turkish nationalism has occupied in the reproduction of the patriarchal order. It is based on a critical reading of the junctions and niches in the interface among nationalist rhetoric, neoliberal order of things, and authoritarian politics to understand the play of gender relations. The chapter is composed of three parts. First I explore, the meaning of regime change from a feminist perspective. Second, I discuss the shifts and relocations in the nationalist state discourse with a view to the gender relations they imply and/or reproduce. Lastly, I try to situate the discussion on the current gender regime in Turkey in the context of feminist politics.
