5 results on '"TWENTY-first century"'
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2. Reliable mortality statistics for Turkey: Are we there yet?
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Özdemir, Raziye, Rao, Chalapati, Öcek, Zeliha, and Horasan, Gönül Dinç
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DEATH rate , *PROOF & certification of death , *EPIDEMIOLOGY , *TWENTY-first century ,TURKISH politics & government - Abstract
Background: The Turkish government has implemented several reforms to improve the Turkish Statistical Institute Death Reporting System (TURKSTAT-DRS) since 2009. However, there has been no assessment to evaluate the impact of these reforms on causes of death statistics. This study attempted to analyse the impact of these reforms on the TURKSTAT-DRS for Turkey, and in the case of Izmir, one of the most developed provinces in Turkey. Methods: The evaluation framework comprised three main components each with specific criteria. Firstly, data from TURKSTAT for Turkey and Izmir for the periods 2001-2008 and 2009-2013 were assessed in terms of the following dimensions that represent quality of mortality statistics (a. completeness of death registration, b. trends in proportions of deaths with ill-defined causes). Secondly, the quality of information recorded on individual death certificates from Izmir in 2010 was analysed for a. missing information, b. timeliness of death notifications and c. characteristics of deaths with ill-defined causes. Finally, TURKSTAT data were analysed to estimate life tables and summary mortality indicators for Turkey and Izmir, as well as the leading causes-of-death in Turkey in 2013. Results: Registration of adult deaths in Izmir as well as at the national level for Turkey has considerably improved since the introduction of reforms in 2009, along with marked decline in the proportions of deaths assigned illdefined causes. Death certificates from Izmir indicated significant gaps in recorded information for demographic as well as epidemiological variables, particularly for infant deaths, and in the detailed recording of causes of death. Life expectancy at birth estimated from local data is 3-4 years higher than similar estimates for Turkey from international studies, and this requires further investigation and confirmation. Conclusion: The TURKSTAT-DRS is now an improved source of mortality and cause of death statistics for Turkey. The reliability and validity of TURKSTAT data needs to be established through a detailed research program to evaluate completeness of death registration and validity of registered causes of death. Similar evaluation and data analysis of mortality indicators is required at regular intervals at national and sub-national level, to increase confidence in their utility as primary data for epidemiology and health policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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3. Gendered Nature and Urban Culture: The Dialectics of Gated Developments in Izmir, Turkey.
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Datta, Ayona
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PRIVATE communities ,COMMUNITIES ,SUBURBS ,URBAN sociology ,SOCIAL classes ,TWENTY-first century ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
This article adds to recent debates on the emergence of new forms of private gated developments in Turkey that specifically target the upper middle classes. In particular, it focuses on the rise of residential gated developments along the Izmir- Ceşme expressway to highlight how the dialectics between gender, nature and culture are reinforced in these places. The article, based on a case study of three gated developments in this region, suggests that their production is made possible through a series of dualisms between nature and culture, mobility and fixity, urban public life and gendered domesticity, urban modernity and rural parochialism, polluted city and healthy town. Based on interviews with architects, developers and residents, as well as local-authority officials in Urla town who sanction these developments, this article argues that contradictions between different sets of dualisms form a central aspect of the processes through which these developments were designed, produced, marketed and inhabited. Taken collectively, these contradictions point broadly to the limits of gated communities in creating stable, adaptable and sustainable patterns of development in Turkey and the global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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4. The Regime of Informality in Neoliberal Times in Turkey: The Case of the Kadifekale Urban Transformation Project.
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Demirtas‐Milz, Neslihan
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SQUATTER settlements ,HOUSING ,URBAN renewal ,NEOLIBERALISM ,ETHNIC groups ,URBAN policy ,HOUSING policy ,URBAN poor ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,SOCIAL integration ,ASSIMILATION of immigrants ,TWENTY-first century ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
Juxtaposing the empirical findings of a qualitative research study of an urban transformation project in the Kadifekale squatter district of Izmir with the changed nature of urban politics in a neoliberal context, this article aims to trace the manifestations of the regime of informality in Turkey. Ethnographic consideration of the motives behind these projects, the way they have been carried out and their consequences for the lives of the inhabitants points to an extended space for informal politics tactically manoeuvred by state officials of various ranks. Particularly during the last two decades, neoliberal urban policies have triggered an intensification of power discrepancies in both the vertical and horizontal dimensions and a fragmentation of community structure in the localities - mainly along socioeconomic divides. This research reveals a transition from positive/passive to negative/active uses of informality in the disposition of the state towards the urban poor when the fast and efficient conduct of urban transformation projects is in question. The characteristics of the locality as a landslide zone, the already fragmented socioeconomic structure in the neighbourhood and the dense presence of Kurdish immigrants facilitate the putting into practice of informal strategies. The immigrants who cannot define a place for themselves in the simultaneously formal and informal context of the project have been seriously disadvantaged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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5. F35 jet engine parts factory opens in Turkey.
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PLANT openings (Factories) ,F-35 (Military aircraft) ,JET engine design & construction ,GROSS domestic product ,EQUIPMENT & supplies ,SOCIAL history ,TWENTY-first century - Abstract
The article discusses Turkish President Abdullah Gul's reported inauguration of a factory in the western Izmir province of Turkey in June 2014 which will apparently be used to produce engine parts for F35 fighter jets, focusing on the factory's co-founding by the aerospace firms Pratt & Whitney and Kale Group. Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci and the efforts to boost Turkey's aviation sector are mentioned, along with Turkey's gross domestic product and investments in Turkey.
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- 2014
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