Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • Writing of(f) hunger, life, and the self :|biopolitics and poetics of Nâzım Hikmet’s hunger strike 
    Keser, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2021., 2021.)
    In this thesis, focusing on his hunger strike in 1950, I try to problematize the presentim age of,and discourse on, Nâzım Hikmet. Drawing on a wide variety of fields including intellectual history,criticaltheory, social ...
  • The failure of the new Erzincan project in light of party-state relations at the local level 
    Mutlu, Elşen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Erzincan Earthquake in 1939 is one of the greatest natural disaster in the history of the Turkish Republic. More than thirty thousand people have died and city of Erzincan was wiped out of the map. As a response to it, ...
  • Tevhid ve Sünnet Cemaati as an Islamic social movement 
    Özkul, Mehmet Özgün. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis examines the formation of Salaϐi identity in Tevhid ve Sünnet Cemaati, an Islamic group that was founded by Halis Bayancuk aka Ebu Hanzala in 2007 Turkey, by focusing on the role of culture in mobilizing and ...
  • Under Mehmed ‘Alī's impact :|dispatching students to Europe in the Reign of Mahmud II (1830–1839) 
    Zorcu, Muratcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2021., 2021.)
    The transformation of the Ottoman Empire throughout the nineteenth century certainly grew out of the earlier discussions of reforms. While initial steps were taken to restructure the Ottoman military, these re forms had ...
  • The National Outlook Movement's vision of capitalist society in Turkey (1968-1980) 
    Ünal, Leman Meral. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    As the first openly Islamist movement in the Turkish legal political scene, the National Outlook Movement came into existence with the foundation of the National Order Party under Necmettin Erbakan’s leadership in 1970 ...
  • German soft power in Turkey and the Balkans in the Interwar Era, 1918-1939 
    Perk, Mert Doğukan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis examines German soft power policies in the Balkans and Turkey in the Interwar Era. How certain German non-state actors such as the Messeamt, the Leipzig Trade Fair, chambers of commerce, etc. took the initiative ...
  • Housewife :|woman with multiple identities 
    Ören Kurşuncu, İleyna. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis examines the upper-middle class Turkish housewives with a focus on their practices and ideas. For this purpose, in-depth interviews were conducted with thirteen housewives between the ağe of fifty and sixty who ...
  • Turkey's experience with planning in the 1960s 
    Özden, Barış Alp, 1978- Author. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis tries to shed light on the broad relationship between state and economic change in Turkey by studying the institutional history of the State Planning Organization in the 1960s. The recent literature on the ...
  • Diyanet in the transnational field :|DİTİB in Germany in the 1980s 
    Bulut, Batıkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis argues that the Turkish Islamic Synthesis (TIS) was re-produced in Germany by means of DİTİB, which was established by the Presidency for Religious Affairs (Diyanet) of the Republic of Turkey. The TIS, which ...
  • The Ottoman tribal school :|surveillance and the students’ lives 
    Akın, Tutku. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis, on the Ottoman tribal school, investigates the surveillance and the students’ lives in the school. It shows how Abdulhamid II and his officers es-tablished mechanisms in order to control the students. The work ...
  • An Ottoman Armenian orphanage :|the short history of Dârüleytâm-ı Osmânî in Adana (1909-1918) 
    Akpınar, Uğur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis examines the history of Dârüleytâm-ı Osmânî institution founded in Adana by Adana Governor Cemal Pasha of the period for Armenian girls and boys who were orphaned due to the Adana massacres of 1909. This ...
  • Homogenization and Turkification practices in Kuzguncuk, Istanbul in the context of the events of 6-7 September 1955 
    Kürküt, Emircan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    Kuzguncuk is a small, popular village in Istanbul near the Bosphorus. According to most official and unofficial written and oral documents, Kuzguncuk was a village of mostly Jews, Greeks, and Armenians rather than Muslim ...
  • Syrian women in Antep :|labor, forced migration and violence 
    Uçar, Canan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis analyzes the intersectionality of labor, forced migration, gender, racism and violence, and how these intersections have an impact on the labor processes of the Syrian women living in suburban neighborhoods of ...
  • Law and order in Ottoman Iraq :|implementation of the Ottoman criminal justice system (1840-1870) 
    Yetkin, Meryem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis discusses the initiation of Ottoman-reformed criminal procedures and courts into the provinces of Iraq between the 1940s and the late 1960s. It evaluates the Ottoman government’s efforts to gain monopoly over ...
  • Beyond a political party :|the AKP machine and its organizational capacity 
    Karataş, Talat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) has been in power in Turkey since 2002. Since the beginning, the party successfully managed to increase its effect on the politics. The AKP also has not lost its popular vote base despite ...
  • The changing of conception of time: calendar and clock from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey 
    Cantemir, Bekir. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis explores the changing conception of time and the time measurable tools and its symbologies from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. My aim is to describe the Ottoman and Republican experiences on the ...
  • State planning organization and technocracy :|a review of planning documents of 1960-1980 period 
    Selim, Semih Aras. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    In 1960 State Planning Organization was established to plan Turkey’s road to development. Comprehensive five-year developmental plans that covered social and cultural as well as economic aspects were prepared by a small ...
  • Reflections of women’s identities and the woman question in the Magazine Resimli Ay in the 1920s Turkey 1924-1928 
    Koçak Yalaz, Mine. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis aims to examine the changing position and identities of women in the construction and modernization processes of the new regime in 1920s, the problems women have faced and the discussions on these subjects, ...
  • The state and cinema sector in neoliberal Turkey :|regulation or arbitrary intervention? 
    Özşen, Yeliz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This study’s main purpose is to analyze the role of the state in the cinema industry of Turkey with a focus on the laws, regulations, and statistical data. These analyses dwell on the ways in which the cinema sector in ...
  • Men and masculinities at play :|the halı saha football in İstanbul 
    Engil, Kadir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis investigates halı saha as one of the main spaces where homosocial-ization among heteromasculine men takes place in the urban context of İstanbul. It specifically focuses on young men with urban, secular and ...

Search Digital Archive


Browse

My Account