Abstract
Ülker Sözen's contribution tackles the context in which civil society activism is produced and how civil society actors reflect on and navigate the difficulties they encounter. Several issues confront Turkey's rights-based civil society, including the unfavorable domestic legal and political environment and the power inequalities and projectified activism promoted by the transnational civil society framework. In recent years, authoritarian pressures have exacerbated these complications. The analysis outlines the main challenges and grievances that CSO workers/ activists face, as well as possible counter-strategies against the authoritarian governance in Turkey and the structural problems and hierarchies within the transnational civil society framework.
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