Ayşe Kadıoğlu's

Bio

Teaching

Selected lectures and videos

Institutional affiliations

Publications in English and Turkish are organized below by type and year: 

(from the earliest to most recent) 

Cumhuriyet İradesi-Demokrasi Muhakemesi: Türkiye’de Demokratik Açılım Arayışları (Istanbul: Metis, 1999).

Vatandaşlığın Dönüşümü: Üyelikten Haklara (Istanbul: Metis, 2008, second edition 2012, third edition 2022).

(co-edited with Fuat Keyman) Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2011).

(co-edited with Kerem Öktem and Mehmet Karlı) Another Empire? A Decade of Turkey’s Foreign Policy Under the Justice and Development Party (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2012).

“Citizenship, Immigration and Racism in a Unified Germany with Special Reference to the Turkish Guestworkers,” Boğaziçi University, Journal of Economics and Administrative Studies, 6/1-2, 1992, pp. 199-211.

“Women’s Subordination in Turkey: Is Islam Really the Villain,” The Middle East Journal, 48/4, Autumn 1994, pp. 645-661.

“Impact of Migration Experiences on Gender Roles: Findings of a Field Research in Turkey,” International Migration, 32/4, 1994, pp. 533-560.

“The Paradox of Turkish Nationalism and the Construction of Official Identity,” Middle Eastern Studies, 32/2, April 1996, pp. 177-194.

“Migration Experiences of Turkish Women: Notes from a Researcher’s Diary,” International Migration, 35/4, 1997, pp. 537-557.

“Republican Epistemology and Islamic Discourses in Turkey in the 1990s,” The Muslim World, LXXXVIII/1, January 1998, pp. 1-21.

“Citizenship and Individuation in Turkey: The Triumph of Will Over Reason,” CEMOTI , 26, 1998, pp. 23-43; reprinted in Steunebrink G. and E. van der Zweerde (eds), Civil Society, Religion, and the Nation: Modernization in Intercultural Context, Russia, Japan, Turkey (Studies in Intercultural Philosophy 13, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2004); also published in Turkish in Fuat Keyman (ed.), Liberalizm, Devlet, Hegemonya, (Everest, Istanbul, 2002), pp. 258-283.

“An Islamic Critique of Modernity in Turkey: Politics of Difference Backwards” (co-authored with Menderes Çınar), Orient , 40/1, March 1999, pp. 53-69.

“Civil Society, Islam and Democracy in Turkey: A Study of Three Islamic NGOs,” The Muslim World, 95/1, January 2005, pp. 23-43.

“Denationalization of Citizenship?, The Turkish Experience,” Citizenship Studies, 11/3, July 2007, pp. 283-301.

“An Oxymoron: The Origins of Civic-Republican Liberalism in Turkey,” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, 16/2, Summer 2007, pp. 171-190.

“Political Participation from a Citizenship Perspective,” Middle East Law and Governance, Inaugural issue, 1/1, January 2009, pp. 90-116.

“The Pathologies of Turkish Republican Laicism,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 36/3-4, 2010, pp. 489-504.

“Reading John Stuart Mill in Turkey in 2017,” Middle East Law and Governance, 10/2, 2018, pp. 203-232.

“Autocratic Legalism in New Turkey,” Social Research: An International Quarterly, 88/2, Summer 2021, pp. 445-471.

“Leaving a Life Behind: Eliza Binemeciyan’s Encounter with ‘the Banality of Evil,'” Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, 28/1, 2021, pp. 3-33.

“Writing to exist: Mes’adet Bedirhan’s pleas for Ottoman women,” Women’s History Review, 34/1, 2025, pp. 158-177.

Council of Europe report:

Living Together: Combining Diversity and Freedom in 21st Century Europe, Council of Europe, 2011.

Book chapters:

“The Human Tie: International Labor Migration” in Canan Balkır and Allan M. Williams (eds), Turkey and Europe, Pinter Publishers, Ltd., St. Martin’s Press, London, New York, 1993, pp. 140-157.

“Is Racism Being Combated Effectively in Germany? The New Immigration Legislation,” in Goran Rystad (ed.), Encountering Strangers: Responses and Consequences, Lund University Press, Sweden, 1996, pp. 73-93.

“Cinselliğin İnkarı: Büyük Toplumsal Projelerin Nesnesi Olarak Türk Kadınları” in Bilanço 98, 75 Yılda Kadınlar ve Erkekler (Istanbul: Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, 1998), pp. 89-101; also published in German in Barbara Pusch (ed.), Die neue muslimische Frau (Istanbul: Orient-Institut and Goethe-Institut, 2001), pp. 31-50.

“Democratic Citizenship” in Günay Göksu Özdoğan and Gül Tokay (eds), Redefining the Nation, State, and Citizen (Istanbul: Marmara University Research Centre for International Relations, 2000), pp. 59-69.

“Milliyetçilik-Liberalizm Ekseninde Vatandaşlık ve Bireysellik” in Tanıl Bora (ed.), Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce Tarihi, Vol. 4 (Istanbul: İletişim, 2002), pp. 284-292.

“Can We Envision Turkish Citizenship as Non-membership” in Fuat Keyman and Ahmet İçduygu (eds), Citizenship and Identity In a Globalizing World: European Questions/Turkish Experiences (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 105-123.

“Muslim Feminist Debates on the Question of Headscarf in Contemporary Turkey” in Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006).

“Aydınlanma, Vatandaşlık ve Kadın: Türkiye Örneği,” in Fuat Keyman (ed.), Aydınlanma, Türkiye ve Vatandaşlık (Istanbul: Osmanlı Bankası Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi, 2008).

“Vatandaşlık ve Siyasal Katılım,”  in Ergun Özbudun’a Armağan Cilt I, (Istanbul: Yetkin Yayınları, 2008).

“Genos versus Devlet: Conceptions of Citizenship in Greece and Turkey,” in Othon Anastasakis, Kalypso Nicolaidis and Kerem Oktem (eds), In the Long Shadow of Europe: Greeks and Turks in the Era of Postnationalism (Leiden: E. J. Brill, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009).

“Necessity and State of Exception: Turkish State’s Permanent War with its Kurdish Citizens” in Riva Kastoryano (ed.), Turkey Between Nationalism and Globalization, (London and New York: Routledge, 2013).

“Academic Freedom: the Global Challenge and the Case of Turkey,”  in Michael Ignatieff and Stefan Roch (eds), Academic Freedom: Global Challenges (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2018) pp. 63-69.

“What Stories does Europe Tell: A View from Turkey,” Harvard University, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Open Forum Series, 35, October 17, 2019.

“Imperious Nationalism in New Turkey: Foreign Policy Discourses in the AKP’s Electoral Manifestos,” (co-authored with Bengi R. Cengiz) in Alpaslan Özerdem and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk (eds), A Companion to Modern Turkey’s Centennial: Political, Sociological, Economic and Institutional Transformations since 1923 (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming in 2023).

“Reversing the Gaze: Tentative Lessons from and for Europe,” (Epilogue), co-authored with Kalypso Nicolaidis, in Olivier Yasar de France et al. (eds), Reversing Europe’s Gaze: Perceptions of Power and the Power of Perceptions (London: PalgraveMacmillan, forthcoming in 2026).

Book

Zaman Lekesi (Time Stain, collection of essays) (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2006).

Essays

“Tarihsel Açıdan Alman Milliyetçiliği, Vatandaşlık Kavramı ve Göç Politikaları,”  Türkiye Günlüğü, 17, 1991, pp. 104-109.

“Alaturkalık ile İffetsizlik Arasında Birey Olarak Kadın,” Görüş, TÜSIAD, no.9, May 1993, pp. 58-62.

“Devletini Arayan Millet: Almanya Örneği,” Toplum ve Bilim, 62, Güz 1993, pp. 95-111.

“Türkiye’de Yaşanan Hizipleşme ve Dreyfus Meselesi,” Birikim, 59, March 1994, pp. 98-101.

“Milletini Arayan Devlet: Türk Milliyetçiliğinin Açmazları,” Türkiye Günlüğü, 33, 1995, pp. 91-101; reprinted in 75/2003 Türkiye Günlüğü.

“Cumhuriyetin Kuruluş Yıllarında Türk Milliyetçiliğinin Çelişkisi ve Seçkinlerin Tavrı” in Nuri Bilgin (ed.), Cumhuriyet, Demokrasi ve Kimlik (Istanbul: Bağlam, 1997), pp. 277-282.

“Kamusal Alan ile Özel Alanın Yeniden Eklemlenmesi: Demokratik Vatandaşlık,” Diyalog, 1, 1996, pp. 119-134; also published in German in Kursat-Ahlers, Elçin, Dursun Tan and Hans-Peter Waldhoff (eds), Globalisierung, Migration und Multikulturalitat (Hannover: IKO-Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Institut fur Soziologie der Universitat, 1999), pp. 257-274.

“Cumhuriyet Kadını: Vatandaş mı, Birey mi?” Varlık, 1069, October 1996, pp. 12-15.

“Sıradan Milliyetçilik: Sürekli Milliyetçilik,” Varlık, 1076, May 1997, pp. 2-6.

“Yeni Alman Sağı: Bir Başka Tarihbilim Tartışması,” Toplumbilim, 7, October 1997, pp. 63-70.

“Laiklik ve Türk Liberalizminin Kökenleri,” Defter, 11/33, Spring 1998, pp. 41-63.

“Su Canavarının Karaya Çıkışı: Devlet ve MHP,” Birikim, 122, June 1999, pp. 23–28.

“Yirminci Yüzyılın Başında Aidiyet Biçimleri,” 8. Ulusal Kalite Kongresi, 3–4 November 1999, CD-ROM, TÜSIAD, KalDer.

“Sosyal Bilimsel Sancılar,” Doğu-Batı, 2/7, May-June-July 1999, pp. 171–186.

“The Debate on Democratization in the Broader Middle East and North Africa: A Civic Assessment from Turkey,” Istanbul Papers 3, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) and the German Marshall Fund of the United States, June 2004 (co-authored with Burak Akçapar, Mensur Akgün, Meliha Altunışık; this policy paper was also published in Turkish and Arabic).

“Eastern Union,” Oxfordforum, Oxford University Student Union, Summer 2006, pp. 38-39.

“Citizenship and Participation,” The CSD Bulletin, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, 13/2, Summer 2006, pp. 16–17.

“The Pigeon on the Bridge is Shot,” MERIP online, February 16, 2007.

“The Headscarf and Citizenship in Turkey,” Social Science Research Council blog, Immanent Frame, April 23, 2008.

“The Spirit of Convivencia,” The Cost of No EU-Turkey III: Five Views, Open Society Foundation, Istanbul, May 2011 (available in English and Turkish).

“From Oblivion to Memory: Skeletons in the Turkish Republican Closet” (co-authored with Orhan Miroğlu), in Dimitar Bechev (ed.), What Does Turkey Think? (London: European Council on Foreign Relations, June 2011).

“The Role of Islam in the Democratic Transformation of Arab Countries: Can Turkish Laicism be a Model?” Democracy on the Precipice: Council of Europe Democracy Debates 2011-12 (Council of Europe publication, 2012).

“Turkish Taboos Perpetuate Immaturity,” Free Speech Debate, February 17, 2012; reprinted in The Guardian, April 18, 2012.

“Participatory Democracy or Bust! Message from the ‘heartbeat’ city,” Eurozine, June 12, 2013.

“Skeletons in the Turkish Closet: Remembering the Armenian Genocide,” openDemocracy, April 24, 2015; reprinted in Hülya Adak, Fatma Müge Göçek and Ronald Grigor Suny (eds), Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915 (London and New York: Routledge, 2024).

“Coup d’état attempt: Turkey’s Reichstag fire,”  openDemocracy, July 16, 2016.

“Istanbul Mayoral elections: in praise of human agency,” openDemocracy, June 24, 2019.

“New authoritarian Zeitgeist: family resemblances,” openDemocracy, December 6, 2019.

“Exile, dignity and love: An Istanbul Story,” K24, May 18, 2020; reprinted in Eurozine on August 25, 2020.

“İhsan Raif: A woman with a pen and a pillow in Istanbul,” K24, January 18, 2021.

"Bireylerin tarihinin öğrettikleri," K24, December 27, 2022.

For essays in K24, see; https://www.k24kitap.org/yazarlar/ayse-kadioglu 

For opinion pieces in T24, see; 

https://t24.com.tr/yazarlar/ayse-kadioglu-2 

For opinion pieces in openDemocracy, see; https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/ayse-kadioglu/ 

Opinion pieces published in Radikal İki (published with the daily Radikal on Sundays) between 2001-2014 can no longer be reached online since the newspaper is closed down and its archives are removed from the internet.

Selected interviews, news pieces

Nare Dink, "Gurur veya suçlulukla değil tevazuyla hatırlamak," Agos, 24 Nisan 2026: https://www.agos.com.tr/tr/haber/gurur-veya-suclulukla-degil-tevazuyla-hatirlamak-40241 

Ayşe Kadıoğlu'ndan 20 yılın hikayesi, GazeteSU, 3 Haziran 2020: https://gazetesu.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ayse-kadioglundan-20-yilin-hikayesi  

"Kadınlar korunmak degil eşitlik istiyor," Bianet, 1 Aralık 2017: https://bianet.org/haber/kadinlar-korunmak-degil-esitlik-istiyor-192036 

Nesrin Balkan'la Çarşamba Sohbetleri, GazeteSU, 3 Nisan 2014: https://gazetesu.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/buyuyunce-dj-olmak-istiyorum 

Nesrin Balkan'la Çarşamba Sohbetleri, GazeteSU, 21 Mart 2014: https://gazetesu.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/guzel-gulen-zarif-kadin-ayse-kadioglu 

Zeynep Miraç, Milliyet, 3 Aralık 2012: https://www.milliyet.com.tr/gundem/ecdadimiz-bir-kadin-ya-da-ermeni-olabilir-1636154

Agos, 3 Aralık 2012: https://www.agos.com.tr/tr/haber/ecdadimiz-bir-kadin-ya-da-ermeni-olabilir-3504 

Ezgi Başaran, T24, 13 Ağustos 2012: https://t24.com.tr/gundem/prof-kadioglu-hukumetin-ic-politakasi-dis-politikasinin-anti-tezine-donustu,210772?_t=1777471483481 

Interviews in the daily Radikal (between 2001-2014) can no longer be reached online since the newspaper is closed down and its archives are removed from the internet.