Today, our world lives through a new political process. Some political decisions and implementations are obviously results and products of a state of exception. The exception derived from internal or external causes creates ...

In this thesis the identity problem in literary works of Cevat Şakir (known as “Balıkçı”) will be studied, in terms of his approach to the “sea”. In his works, a systematic discussion of a genesis thesis cannot be seen. ...

Istanbul’s historically cosmopolitan center Beyoğlu, went into a silent era in the twentieth century. Globalization in late 1990s triggered a nostalgic revival. Beyoğlu was home of a cultural renaissance. By mid 2000s, ...

This thesis examines the emergence and transformation of social development as a governmental strategy within the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) in the 1990s. GAP, which emerged as an infrastructure project to build ...

This study aims to explore how a group of Muslim and Christian women of Mersin remember and narrate their life experiences in relation to modernity, the Republican reforms and the intercommunal relations between the Mus-lims ...

Processes of neoliberalization in Turkey witness the gradual transformation of the character of university-industry partnerships. The enactment of Technology Development Zones Law in 2001 brought those relations in a whole ...

This thesis aims to deal with how the Ottoman government implemented the incentives to motivate its soldiers and non-conscripted youth. This thesis takes into consideration the fact the Ottoman army is not a homogenous ...

The meaning of debt augmentation is clarified in the formation of the distinction between different classes or of different socio-economic levels and these different dispositions proliferate a vague world of meaning for ...

The 1960s was a decade characterized by youth movements, new cultural alignments, student revolts and many anti-establishment movements all around the world. Turkey was no exception. Many studies have focused on the left ...

This thesis examines traditional and informal dispute resolution practices used by Kurds in Istanbul, who were internally displaced in the 1990s and migrated to Istanbul, for handling their daily disputes. It discusses ...