ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ramifications of the decades-long Kurdish conflict for masculinity, male embodiment, sexuality, and politics of reproduction in Turkey. More specifically, it examines how the bodies, gendered subjectivities, sexualities, and reproductive capacities of Turkish veterans disabled in clashes with Kurdish guerillas are made, unmade, and remade through the complex interactions of multiple technologies of state and war-making, governmentality, welfare, military medicine, and assisted reproduction in the context of the ongoing peace and reconciliation processes. Focusing on the state-sponsored assisted conception program that seeks to make fathers out of paraplegic veterans, this chapter aims to contribute to our understanding of masculinity, disabled sexuality, and new reproductive technologies from the viewpoint of a war-torn Muslim-majority society.
