Despite taking significant steps to comply with the Copenhagen criteria after receiving the candidate-country status in 1999, Turkey gradually moved away from European norms, values, and policy demands in various policy areas. This study explores (de)-Europeanization of Turkey's gender equality policy in terms of both legislative changes and the shifts observed in domestic actors' discourses over the past decade, focusing particularly on the debates surrounding the Istanbul Convention. It argues that the fading credibility of the EU conditionality coupled with domestic political dynamics led to the weakening of the EU as a reference point in domestic debates, where policies ensuring gender equality were reversed by pro-family conservative discourses and policies. The study points to domestic factors, including the country's authoritarian turn, and international factors such as the stalling EU-Turkey relations coupled with the backlash against gender equality in EU member states as the key dimensions of de-Europeanization of gender equality policy.

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土耳其性别平等政策的欧洲化和去欧洲化：以伊斯坦布尔公约为例

尽管在 1999 年获得候选国地位后采取了重大措施来遵守哥本哈根标准，但土耳其在各个政策领域逐渐远离了欧洲规范、价值观和政策要求。本研究探讨了土耳其性别平等政策的（去）欧洲化，包括过去十年立法变化和国内行为者话语中观察到的转变，特别关注围绕《伊斯坦布尔公约》的辩论。它认为，欧盟条件的可信度下降以及国内政治动态导致欧盟作为国内辩论参考点的削弱，在这些辩论中，确保性别平等的政策被支持家庭的保守言论和政策所扭转。该研究指出了国内因素，包括国家