Sulukule has been identified with Romani residents for centuries. An urban renewal project began in the neighborhood in 2005. The project not only transformed the social structure of Sulukule, but also highlighted the ...

In this thesis, I sketched a broad framework in the late Ottoman prison system and prisoners' institutional, legal, spatial problems and struggle with Ottoman approach towards women prisoners in terms of their gender roles, ...

For a considerable time, minority foundations have been struggling with the problem of property seized by the state. The issue dates back to a 1970s decision of the Court of Cassation based on the 1936 declaration. According ...

In this paper, the term “artistic truth” is a starting point for studying the past through two works of literature; two theater plays written in late nineteenth century in order to get a multifaceted picture of the time. ...

Focusing on the selected travel books and memoirs of the early Republican intellectual Falih Rıfkı Atay, this study illustrates an unconventional approach to the early Republican period. The travel books and memoirs in ...

This thesis aims to deal with the period from the Second World War to the beginning of the 1960s, and analyze the transformation of agricultural structures in Edirne, a border province, which was situated near a battle ...

This thesis, as a work of social history, studies medicine as political phenomena through its three aspects: public hygiene within the urban space, syphilis and forensics, in the late Ottoman Empire. As a result of the ...

This thesis examines increasing interactions between metropolitan municipalities and the market as well as the role of the central state in this context in the post-1980 era. Since the 1980s, municipalities have interacted ...

This thesis studies the abolition of torture in the Ottoman Empire from 1840s up until the mid-1860s as a component of newly-raised Tanzimat legislation and, more generally, the Ottoman judicial transformation in the ...

This thesis, which handles the periods of the Tanzimat and Abdülhamid II, aims to examine the implementation of the Hamidian reform policies in the Iraqi province of the Ottoman Empire in the context of central government ...