The effects of european union funding on Turkish civil society

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The thesis explores the impact of European Union funding on Turkish non-governmental organizations in the post-Helsinki period. The European Union financial aids in the post-Helsinki period is analysed with a specific emphasis on civil society and how Turkish civil society is affected from these financial aids. The search for impact analysis is done through case studies of three different civil society organisations at several levels. The organisations studied are, Women Entrepreneur’s Support Foundation of Turkey (KAGİDER), Mother-Child Education Foundation (AÇEV) and Southeast Anatolia Project- Entrepreneurs Development Centres (GİDEM) The importance of these three cases is being representative of different strata of civil society and operating in priority areas in such as, women, entrepreneurship and basic education the pre-accession stage. The effects of EU funding will be analysed in different subject areas and levels, such as organisational changes, operational changes, mission differentiations and changes in relations with third parties. The study concludes with the analysis if these impacts have a permanent effect on Turkish civil society and civil society organisations, together with the critiques of the extent EU funds can be utilised by an average NGO.
General Social Sciences.
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608152/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16698
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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S. Arkan, “The effects of european union funding on Turkish civil society,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.
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