
Ilknur Yüksel-KaptanogluHacettepe University · Department of Demography
Ilknur Yüksel-Kaptanoglu
PhD
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Introduction
Ilknur Yüksel-Kaptanoglu currently works at the Department of Demography, Hacettepe University. Ilknur does research in Social Policy and Qualitative Social Research. Their current project is 'Turkey Demographic and Health Surveys'.
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A large, nationally representative, cross-sectional survey was conducted in Turkey in 2008. In this survey, which used the WHO (World Health Organization) study module on violence, information about lifetime and current violence (past 12 months) was obtained using weighted, stratified, and multistage cluster sampling. This article describes factors...
This article analyses trends in early marriage in Turkey over a period of 30 years from 1978 to 2008, and factors associated with early marriage, based on data from the 1978 Turkish Fertility Survey and 2008 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. The proportion of all women aged 20 to 24 who married before age 18 declined from 38% in 1978 to 14% in...
Domestic violence has severe consequences for women, both psychologically and physiologically. Violence during pregnancy is even riskier, endangering women’s lives and the lives of their fetuses. A nationwide survey in Turkey in 2014 revealed that 7% of women who have experienced a pregnancy were exposed to physical violence perpetrated by an intim...
Gender-based violence (GBV) is now recognised as a violation of women’s human rights, and a form of discrimination against women globally. Inclusion of GBV in the sustainable development goals agenda encouraged data collection and monitoring activities which are mainly indicator-based monitoring. In this study, we tried to focus on aspects of struc...
Background
Intimate partner violence is a serious public health problem and negatively affects short-term and long-term health, development, and wellbeing of adolescent girls. Global estimates from WHO have shown that adolescent girls aged 15–19 years experience high rates of intimate partner violence. We aimed to estimate the lifetime and past-yea...
Background
Maternal mortality ratio is one of the significant indicators of a country's healthcare quality and development. In recent years, Türkiye has made significant advancements in maternal and child health services. However, it has been discussed that stagnation has been observed in recent years, and the migration from Syria and the COVID‐19...
Objective: Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a priority public health emergency response for women during humanitarian crisis situations as they face the risk of being neglected in health care systems of the country of arrival. This study aimed to investigate Syrian refugee women’s utilization of SRH services, through Minimum Initial Service...
Social capital is referred as one of the factors that influence the place of an individual, a community, or a nation in a given social universe. Hence, the measurement of social capital is significant to understand the differentiation among these places of individuals. In this study, to comprehend the social capital in Turkey, we aimed to measure t...
Cinsiyet Eşitliği İzleme Derneği (CEİD) kurulduğu 2011 yılından bu yana toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliğine katkı sunmak amacıyla Türkiye’de farklı alanlardaki eşitsizlikleri saptayarak sorunları açığa çıkarmaya yönelik çalışmalar yürütüyor. Haritalama ve izleme raporları hazırlayarak göstergeler aracılığıyla zaman içinde değişikliklerin ne yönde olduğun...
The concept of social capital implies to the benefit of social relations for individuals and community. The complicated structure of social capital led the theoreticians to see it from varying aspects and forms, and the researchers to measure it in many different ways. Examining the existing studies in the literature, it is understood that while me...
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Since Turkey has the highest number of asylum seekers in the world due to massive immigration in the last 10 years, institutionalizing the immigration management has been a challenge. The aim of this study is to explore regular and irregular food assistance program recipient asylum seekers’ experiences and perspectives about household nu...
Çocuk Yaşta, Erken ve Zorla Evlilikleri (ÇEZE) toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliği perspektifinden ele alarak toplumsal cinsiyete duyarlı hak temelli bir izleme çalışması olan bu rapor, Cinsiyet Eşitliği İzleme Derneği’nin (CEİD) toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliğine ilişkin farklı alanlarda hazırlamış olduğu haritalama çalışmalarına ilişkin ürünlerden biridir. Pr...
Elinizdeki kitap Türkiye’de Katılımcı Demokrasinin Güçlendirilmesi: Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliğinin İzlenmesi Projesi kapsamında hazırlanan bir dizi tematik haritalama ve toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliğini (TCE) izleme göstergeleri geliştirme çalışmalarına yol göstermek amacıyla hazırlanmıştır.
In this paper we explore how education and religious practice influence gender ideology in Turkey, using survey data for 2003, 2008 and 2013. The two concepts of "male authority" and "female autonomy" are used as proxies for gender ideology, taking advantage of a set of statements intended to capture gender role attitudes among ever-married women 1...
Kadına yönelik şiddet, Türkiye’nin önemli toplumsal sorunlarından biri olmaya devam etmektedir. Bu konudaki çalışmalar son zamanlarda artmakla birlikte, kadına yönelik aile içi şiddet ile kadınların cinsiyet temelli mekânları kullanımları arasındaki ilişkiyi ele alan ve feminist coğrafya odağında duran ampirik çalışmalar hala sınırlıdır. Biz, bu ça...
This paper presents selected results from a research project on the dynamics of marriage migration from Turkey to Germany. In terms of its design, the project represents a multi-sited research endeavour with a dyadic sample consisting of couples for whom, at the beginning of the data collection, one partner was living in Turkey and the other in Ger...
Women’s deaths during pregnancy or 42 days after the termination of pregnancy are called maternal deaths. For developing countries, maternal deaths continue to be significant in number. This study represents the avoidable factors contributing to maternal deaths in Turkey using the results of the National Maternal Mortality Study conducted in 2005....
This study explores the severity and frequency of physical violence from an intimate partner experienced by 15- to 59-year-old women and their help-seeking behavior by using data from the "National Research on Domestic Violence Against Women in Turkey." Chi-square tests and logistic regression analyses were conducted to compare the relationship bet...
This study aims to contribute to eliminate child marriages through revealing the factors that pave the way for becoming a child bride in Turkey. In order to reflect the actual characteristics of child brides, religious marriages are considered besides the civil marriages. The risk factors for child marriages are analyzed using logistic regression b...
Despite a decline infertility, an increase in contraceptive prevalence, and a wide expansion of family planning programs in Iran and Turkey, a large proportion of "birth limiters" rely on withdrawal to avoid pregnancy. Adopting a comparative approach, this study draws on data from the 2000 Iran DHS and 2003 Turkey DHS to examine the determinants of...
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In this study, the determinants of male contraceptive use in Turkey are analysed using the reports of currently married women who are currently in reproductive ages. The data source of this study is the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey 2008. Since vasectomy is rarely used, the results are given in detail for withdrawal and condom. The findings...
Bu çalışmada düşük sosyo-ekonomik gruptaki kadınların yoksulluğu algılamaları, yoksullukla ilgili tecrübeleri ve yaşam stratejileri Amartya Sen'in 'yapabilirlik yaklaşımı'ndan yararlanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Makalenin amacı, temel kapasiteleri ve yaşam deneyimleri farklılık gösteren kadınların yoksulluğu yaşama biçimleri arasındaki benzerlik ve f...