Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey

by Elif M. Babül

Book Overview

Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations. Nevertheless, with eyes worldwide trained on Turkish politics, and with accession to the European Union underway, Turkey's human rights record remains a key indicator of its governmental legitimacy. Bureaucratic Intimacies shows how government workers encounter human rights rhetoric through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503603172
• ISBN13: 9781503603172
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"