Culture, Politics, Ideology and Reproductive Health in Turkey

Yilmaz Esmer is a professor of political science and international relationsat Bahçesehir University in Istanbul. He received his bachelor’sdegree from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Heis an active researcher in a number of international projects includingthe World Values Surveys and the European Values Study. He is the principalinvestigator of the Harvard-Bahçesehir project on reproductivehealth whose fi ndings are analyzed in this book.

• Yılmaz Esmer : Introduction — Yılmaz Esmer : Cultural Values, Reproductive Health and Family Planning: The Turkish Case — Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm : Politics of Family Planning in Turkey: Ideological Polarization and Demographic Policies — Iqbal H. Shah : Studying the Impact of a Community-based Family Planning Intervention in Ghana, Pakistan, Tanzania and Turkey: Strengths and Challenges — Duygu Karadon : Factors Influencing Reproductive Health Decision-Making — Sarah Huber-Krum : Ethnic and Regional Diversity in Family Planning Behaviors — Bahar Ayça Okçuoğlu and Sarah Huber-Krum : Associations between Women’s Empowerment, Conservatism and Contraceptive Trends — Ryoko Sato : Effect of Distance to, and Service Availability of, Health Facilities on Family Planning Use among Urban Turkish Women — Julia Katherine Rohr : Contraceptive Choices and Fertility Preferences .