The Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century dramatically transformed navies from fleets of wind-driven wooden ships into steam-propelled ironclad squadrons. The industrial framework, administrative competence, ...

This study focuses on the role of the working classes, and in particular, of the port workers of Istanbul, in the making of a critical era in the Ottoman history. It shows that the Revolution of 1908, and working class ...

This thesis scrutinizes the relationship between Turkey and Italy in the interwar era on the basis of the bilateral diplomatic and economic contacts. In the light of the specific goals of both Turkish and Italian foreign ...

Turkey has experienced a consumer credit boom in the 21st entury, like many other developing and developed countries. This thesis examines how financial indebtedness became normal in society by researching banks' strategies ...

This thesis examines a much-misunderstood period of mobilization and politicization of Kurds in Turkey, a period that has often been assumed to have been an era of revival for Kurdish nationalism. It rejects the idea of ...

This thesis focuses on the mourning rituals of the Caferi community in Turkey which are held in the month of Muharram in general and on the day of Aşura in particular. Caferis are Twelver Shii people majority of Azeri ...

This study examines the gradual and uneven transformation that Antioch, as one of the three towns of the Sanjak of Alexandretta, underwent under the French mandate. The following thesis will argue against the perspective, ...

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of decision making in Turkish foreign policy during the Cold War through the evaluation of the impact of Turkish domestic politics on Turkish foreign policy. The main objective ...

This study scrutinizes the oral narratives of the mass migration of Turkey’s Jews to Israel in the late 1940s, both as memories of suppressed or ignored historical events and as traces of the contemporary identity issues ...

This thesis is on the historical transformations in juvenile justice policy in relation to property crimes and the operation of law in the one of the juvenile courts in Istanbul. The politics of the Penal Code and the legal ...