Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul (2023)
Book Chapter
Tascioglu, E. (2023). Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul. In G. Radics, & P. Ciocchini (Eds.), Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World (231-251). Springer

Historically, trans women of Turkey have been frequent targets of torture and ill-treatment by the police forces. Since the early 2000s, however, the strategies of the police to control trans women’s existence within the city has moved away from infl... Read More about Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul.

I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey (2015)
Journal Article
Tascioglu, E. (2015). I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 1452-1470

This article examines life story narratives of trans women in an effort to understand how violence produces and shapes their lives and subjectivities in Istanbul, Turkey. After delineating the main forms of violence that target them, it looks at the... Read More about I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey.