Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • The transformation of the Turkish vocational training system: creation of lifelong learning, loyal technicians 
    Bulut, Ergin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis scrutinizes the current transformation of vocational training system in Turkey. Beginning with the question “Why did the vocational high schools become the problem of the country all of a sudden?” it tries to ...
  • The transformation of an industrial location: Dilovası from 1990s to present 
    Dinçer, Evren Mehmet. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This study scrutinizes the transformation of Dilovası, a densely industrialized location, from 1990s to present. It focuses on the effects of industrialization process of Turkey on Dilovası and through the data discusses ...
  • Prince Sabahattin (1878-1948) and his place in Ottoman intellectual development 
    Helvacı, Pelin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis examines Prince Sabahattin’s place in Ottoman intellectual development that started to flourish in Tanzimat era. Prince Sabahattin is portrayed with his intellectual capacity, besides his stance in politics as ...
  • Visions of aesthetics and culture in Yeni Adam: republic of fine arts (1934-1950) 
    Barlas, Şeyda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims to examine the construction of art and aesthetic as objects of national identitiy construction in both Kemalist and Yeni Adam’s cultural conservative perspective in the early Republican Turkey covers a ...
  • Agreements and friedship between Greece and Turkey in 1930: contesting nationalist discourses and press reactions 
    Vakali, Anna. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    The signing, among others, of a “friendship agreement” between Greece and Turkey in 1930 has been coined by official nationalist discourses as the initiation of a brand new “friendship-era” between the two nations. This ...
  • The genesis of the left of center in Turkey: 1965-1967 
    Emre, Yunus. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    In the thesis the discourse of left of center which came onto the agenda before the 1965 elections was scrutinized in the context of the intellectual history and social democracies of Western Europe. The left of center ...
  • The privatization of culture and the development of cultural centers in Turkey in the post-1980s 
    Başaran, Pelin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis seeks to uncover the privatization of culture in the post-1980s in the context of social and economic transformations. To achieve this aim, it compares, what motivated rich families and corporations to make ...
  • The origin of Turkey's Kurdish question: an outcome of the breakdown of the Ottoman ancien regime 
    Akyol, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis looks at the impact of the transformation of Ottoman society from a multi-ethnic, religious and decentralized structure (i.e. the Ottoman Ancien Régime) to a modern nationhood on its Kurdish citizens. The roots ...
  • Apartmentalization and middle classness: urban socio-spatial change in the period 1950s-1970s 
    Duru, Aslı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    The Turkish experience of the housing issue makes possible the display of remarkable ways, interrelations between individuals and their residential practices as well as the functional necessities developed within the context ...
  • The statist industrialization and the formation of industrial working class in the early republic 
    Dingiloğlu, Selin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    The basic concern of this master’s thesis is to develop a historical approach towards the statist industrialization initiated in early 1930s and the formation of Turkish industrial working class with its economic, social, ...
  • Agricultural growth in the 1930s in Turkey 
    Akarçay, Ayça. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Atatürk's Principles and the History of Turkish Renovation, 1999., 1999.)
    Assessment of the economic development of the 1930s in Turkey have mainly emphasized industrial development, which is attributed to state-led policies (etatism). However, developments in agricultural sector were also ...
  • The labor unionism of 1946 
    Öztürk, Osman. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    During the transition to a multi-party system in Turkey during 1946, the prohibition of founding societies “based on class” was lifted. Thus, the way was open to unionist organizations. At this turning point of the Republic’s ...
  • Political change and working class formation between 1945-1960 in Turkey 
    Kocabaş, Erdem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    The conditions and properties of the working class formation between the end of the Second World War and the military intervention of 1960 have not recieved the attention they deserve from scholars working in the field of ...
  • The Reconstruction of "hegemonic masculinity:" an analysis through Erkekçe, 1981-1990 
    Farımaz, Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis strives to delineate how "hegemonic masculinity" was reconstructed in the 1980s, especially through focusing on the economic and cultural atmosphere of the decade. The indispensable motive in designating the ...
  • Tuberculosis, medicine and politics: public health in the early Republican Turkey 
    İlikan, Ceren Gülser. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    This study examines the struggle against tuberculosis in the early Republican Turkey in the context of health policy. The thesis explains that the population problem derived from the years between the Balkan Wars and the ...
  • Gender and social policy in Turkey: positive discrimination or a second-class female citizenship? 
    Kılıç, Azer. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis examines the gender-specific provisions of social security and labor legislations in Turkey. The development of the gendered policies in question is traced back through the modern history of Turkey, focusing ...
  • The Story of a transition: the organization and the reception of the Bergama movement 
    İleri, Nurçin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    This study scrutinizes the way of organization, the demands, the conflicts and the dynamics of the Bergama Peasant Movement which started fifteen years ago and has been amortizing after 2003. Not the movement itself, but ...
  • Social policy of urban transformation: social housing policies in Turkey from the 1980s to present 
    Burkay, Helin Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis analyzes the post-2000 policies of social housing in Turkey with reference to urban transformation and gentrification attempts on the one hand and social policies directed at the redefinition of the position ...
  • Remzi Oğuz Arık and cultural nationalism in Turkey 
    Bülbül, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    Taking into consideration the historical development of nationalism in Turkey, it is not possible to claim that it followed a unique path. In fact, considering nationalism on the axis of Turkey needs in a way to take into ...
  • A Historical panaroma of an Istanbul neighborhood: Cihangir from the late nineteenth century to the 2000s 
    Sasanlar, Binnaz Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    This study can be seen as a contribution to the history of a cosmopolitan Istanbul neighborhood, Cihangir, where Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Levantines, Turks, and other Muslim and non-Muslim inhabitants lived in harmony for ...