Woman Of Democratic Participation

Pınar  AKARÇAY   is  an  academician  in  Trakya  University  with  PhD  degree  in  Political  Science  and  Public Administration from İstanbul University who works at present as the Visiting Researcher (Post-doctorate) at the Institute for Housing and Urban Researches at Upssala University in Sweden. Dr. Akarçay had h er Bachelor’s and MA Degrees in  Public  Administration  from  Trakya  University  at  Edirne.  She  had  previously  held  research  activities  in  Lund University of Sweden. Her research interests range from political participation, democracy, theories of democracy, to gender politics, civil society, human rights as well as Turkish and international politics in these contexts. She has many essays, articles and books published on these research areas. She has also participated various national and international symposiums, congresses and panels. Gökhan  AK  is an academician  with PhD degree in Political Science  from  Ankara  Hacettepe University  who works at present as the Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Nişantaşı University in İstanbul.  Dr.  Ak  had  a  Bachelor’s  Degree  in  Operations  Research/Management  (İstanbul)  and  MA  Degree  in International  Politics  (Brussels  ULB  University).  He  had  previously  held  research  activities  at  Universit y  Libre  de Bruxelles and British National Archives. His research interests range from political participation, democracy, theories of democracy, to gender politics, civil society, human rights as well as Turkish and international politics in these contexts. He has many essays, articles and books published on these research areas. He has also participated too many national and international symposiums, congresses and panels.