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    The impact of the refugee crisis on the LGBTI+ organizations in Turkey
    (İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2021) Karabacak, Funda; Boşnak, Büke
    ABSTRACT: When peaceful demonstrations escalated into bloody conflicts in 2011, mass flows of people started to flee Syria and sought asylum in neighbouring countries. Hosting the largest refugee population, Turkey, plays a critical role in the so-called refugee crisis1 both as a neighbouring state and a strategic partner in the Syrian Civil War. Furthermore, turbulent political climate that curbs human rights and freedom of speech along with the growing Islam-based politics leads into targeting of the LGBTI+ movement in Turkey. This research, therefore, aims to give insight into the intersection of two groups, LGBTI+ and refugee communities to provide a distinctive approach in the literature. This research intends to understand the impact of the so-called refugee crisis on the structure of the LGBTI+ organizations in Turkey. Three main points form the basis of the research: understanding the relationship between refugee crisis and organizational structure within the LGBTI+ organizations, assessing the changes in relation to organizational structure and agendasetting and lastly the result of this change based on temporal dimension. Based on Wong’s conceptualization, this research defines organizational structure as distribution of agenda-setting power and analyses this concept through three components: proposal power, enforcement power and lastly implementation. It intends to contribute to the literature within empirical setting in Turkey-context. Turkey is an interesting case in terms of LGBTI+ organizations due to the male-dominated and Islam-based values of the society and diminishing importance given to the human rights. Semi-structured interviews were conducted as the method of data collection since they provide both more planned and flexible environment. Similarly, snowball sampling was used in order to contact the interviewees. Lastly, thematic analysis was used to evaluate the collected data. The results suggest that LGBTI+ organizations in Turkey are likely to have decentralized structure and have not gone through structural change following the so-called refugee crisis. On this basis, capacity of the organizations, dominant informal relations and political climate should be taken into consideration when analysing the structure of the organizations.