ABSTRACT
This chapter aims at a feminist reading of contemporary politics in Turkey. It focuses on the period after 2013, as the last stage of the regime change that the country has been experiencing since the 1980s. The main argument is that the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) terms in government mark the last phase in the socio-political transformation in Turkey, characterized by authoritarian politics in neoliberal frames. First, I offer a brief account of the AKP’s terms in government with a view to the accompanying gender regime. Second, I delineate the regime change with a view to the re-organization of public order. Third, I discuss the mode of patriarchy that accompanies the regime change in Turkey.
