Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Diğer, 2023
This short article is an editorial of a virtual special issue on Turkey, published on the official webpage of The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). SPSSI publishes three respected and well-cited journals in the United States.
Turkey celebrated its 100th year as a republic on October 29, 2023, a period punctuated by a transition in governance from a multi-party system to a single actor regime in the last decade. Turkey’s authoritarian and highly centralized government under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has critically diminished the country’s human rights record in the last two decades (Human Rights Watch, n.d.). Against the backdrop of hollowed out democratic institutions, rising inflation rates due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and a style of economic mismanagement known as Erdoganomics, Turkey recently faced a series of devastating earthquakes on February 6, 2023, resulting in the deaths of over 50,000 (Wong et al., 2023; Reuters, 2023a).
Applying a unique internal perspective on Turkey, this collection of published works seeks to highlight the importance of critical scholarship in psychology as it relates to contemporary policies and practices in the Republic of Turkey. This collection aims to review and synthesize SPSSI journal articles about Turkey published on or after 1945 to contextualize current events and to create an impetus for producing more critical scholarship about Turkey to address relevant policy issues.