The late nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of a new mentality about work, society and crime among the Ottoman elites. As work became the central principle on which society was based, the unemployed and poor began ...

This work examines the governing mentality of the Ottoman Empire by looking specifically to its punishment politics in the nineteenth century. It was aimed to examine how new kinds of punishment politics wereintroduced in ...

This thesis examines the Turkish-Balkan policy since the establishment of the Republic until now. Special emphasis is given to the period after the end of the Cold War as Turkish foreign policy gained several new aspects ...

This thesis explores the social policies on female body in the 1930s in Turkey. The 1930s witnessed the construction and the institutionalization of the new regime. Early Republican elite had a vision and a project in the ...

Microcredit delivery to the poor in order to encourage them to involve in income-generating activities or develop their micro-enterprises emerged as a survival strategy on the basis of the assumption that the poor can ...

This study analyses the discourses on the economic crises of 1979 and 2001 from a comparative perspective. The different ways the field of economy was conceived, and how society was imagined in the late-1970s, and early-2000s ...

The social impact of Second World War on Turkey has not attracted the attention of scholars because of the politico-historical approach in Turkish historiography, which holds the state, elites, macro-economic developments. ...

This thesis looks at the dynamics of rapid changes affecting cultures, discourses and ideologies in the early modern Ottoman and Qajar empires up to the constitutional revolutions of the early twentieth century. Both ...

This thesis examines the associational life of Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria in Turkey. Firstly, this thesis argues how the communal identity of “Bulgaristanlı Turks” which is shaping by assimilation policies of the ...