This study focuses on the role of booksellers' catalogs, namely Esamii Kütüb (Names of the Books), and in particular, of Kitabçı Arakel's catalog published in 1884, as a vehicle to promote the printed book as a commodity ...

This thesis examines whether the DTP, Democratic Society Party, the last ring of the chain of pro-Kurdish legal political parties in the first decade of the twenty first century, evolved into what is called a ‘Party for ...

This thesis, departing from the current concerns for the dissolving of the informal waste collection sector under the disturbance of neoliberal urban restructuring, focuses on the organization of the informal waste sector ...

This thesis scrutinizes the reaction of Turkey towards the emergence of the Turkic Republics in the Post-Cold War Period. In doing this, it does seek not only to give an account of Turkish foreign policy towards the Turkic ...

Turkey’s welfare regime has been undergoing a massive transformation under the auspices of the Justice and Development Party since 2002. The ratification of the Law on Disabled People in 2005 could be regarded as an important ...

This study is based upon a group of forced Kurdish migrants whose "social exclusion" is generally suggested to have arrived at an extent in which the forced migrants are both out of the labor market and grassroots politics. ...

This thesis explores how the practice of renaming places in Turkey serves the discursive formation of the nation state and the national territorialization of space by creating the hegemonic spatio-temporal regime and by ...

This thesis scrutinizes the working conditions and socio-economic status of seasonal migrant workers in agriculture. They are exposed to the inequalities in the labor market in terms of wages, accommodation and work ...

This study scrutinizes the main features of the call center industry of Turkey and how the workers experience the work in multilingual call centers. The expansion of call centers is examined pertaining to the characteristics ...

This thesis scrutinizes the non-Muslim community hospitals in Istanbul concerning their present social function and specialties that differentiates them from other private hospitals. Covering the investigation of Greek ...