Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • Turkish social work sector after the 1990s through the accounts of the social workers 
    Kartal, Ayşecan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    This study scrutinizes the state-civil society partnerships in the Turkish Social Services Sector after the 1990s. This approach is embraced in Turkey paralel to the approaches of the international organizations such as ...
  • The Yezidis and the Ottoman state: modern power, military conscription, and conversion policies, 1830-1909 
    Gölbaşı, Edip. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    The community on which this thesis builds and fixes its narrative is the “heterodox” Yezidi tribes that lived in the eastern provinces of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, with Mosul holding the first place. Yet it ...
  • The "Ballast" of Istanbul: a critique of the spatial reorganization of industrial production in Gebze 
    Özgen, Selim. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    The present study examines the industrialization process of Gebze district particularly during the raging market economy after 1980. During this inquiry, the question in mind was discovering the affects of the transition ...
  • Decentralism versus centralism in Ottoman Anatolia, 1919-1922 
    Gümüş, Fatih. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute of Modern Turkish History, 2002., 2002.)
    The last few years of the Ottoman Empire saw the rise of a de-centralist/localist movement and approach in the country. The movement included some features which were very different from those of the traditional political ...
  • The importation of Ottoman tonbaku from Iran and its socio-cultural implications: 1891-1914 
    Kılıç, Mehmet, 1950- (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis analyzes Ottoman tonbaku imports from Iran and its socio-cultural implications. This study examines the possibility of success of public economic policies that did not take society and social groups into ...
  • Automobility in Turkey: a critical evaluation of Turkish automobile production in the 1960s and the 1970s 
    Çıngay, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis evaluates the diffusion of automobility as a system in terms of its economic, social and cultural aspects during the 1960s and the 1970s in the Turkish context. Turkey adapted to global domination character of ...
  • Experience of September 12 coup d'etat in Turkish novels of the 1980s 
    Özdoğan, Başak Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    This study scrutinizes the September 12 literature written just after the September 12 coup d’état, that is to say in 1980s. How the coup affected to the literature both its form and content; how the coup experienced by ...
  • The transformation of MESS & TISK from foundation to 2005: "a story of rejoicing" 
    Yeşilbağ, Melih. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis scrutinizes the history of MESS and TISK, two representative organizations of big capital in Turkey from 1960s to 2005. Based on a discursive analysis of the publications of these organizations, it traces the ...
  • Power struggle within the national struggle: the case of Sivas (1919-1925) 
    Yılmaz, Mustafa Emre. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    Thanks to the influence of Nutuk, the power struggle within national struggle is either disregarded or perceived from the viewpoint of Mustafa Kemal by the Turkish historiography. In this paper, the period between 1919 – ...
  • From motherhood to activism: a history of women in transformation 
    Orhan, Gözde. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    This study scrutinizes the mobilization of mothers in Turkey whose children were subjected to state violence or to abuse of rights for a variety of reasons, relying on the “natural” legitimacy rooted in being a mother, and ...
  • Anatolian tigers: local adaptability to global competitiveness in Kayseri 
    Satoğlu, Emine Beyza. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    This study aims to analyze the post-1980 export-oriented industrialization story of the leading provinces of Anatolia, the commonly called “Anatolian Tigers”, by focusing firstly on the Turkish manufacturing industry data ...
  • The volunteer firefighters of Istanbul 1826-1923 
    Taşyakan, Barış. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    This study explains the various responses developed by the inhabitants of the Ottoman capital during the last hundred years of the empire to the frequent fires they experienced. Being a city comprised of a wooden and dense ...
  • Snapshots of popular Turkish nationalism: Neo-Kemalism, bestsellers and facebook 
    Türkoğlu, Didem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis takes snapshots from contemporary popular culture to understand manifestations of Turkish nationalism. It focuses on neo-Kemalist version of Turkish nationalism which is defined as a new type of Turkish nationalism ...
  • Kadro and Kemalism :|a search for an ideology in the early 1930s 
    Dalak, M. Uğur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Atatürk's Principles and the History of the Turkish Renovation, 1993., 1993.)
    The primary reason for the present research questioned whether the political, economic and social philosophy of Kadro influenced Kemalism, or Kemalism used Kadro to implement the political directions of the single party ...
  • Neoliberal populism and the "Özal decade": its implications for the democratic process 
    Tafolar, Mine. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute Ataturk of Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    This study examines the Özal decade through the lens of populism and scrutinizes the manifestations of this neoliberal populist governance style on the economic, discursive, and institutional levels in a detailed manner. ...
  • The representation of gender, love family and sexuality in the canonical and non-canonical novels of the early republican period 
    Ural, Tülin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2001., 2001.)
    In the conclusion of thesis, it is observed that the authors of both the canonical and non-canonical novels prefer to discuss modernity through using gender and related themes. Moreover, namus (sexual honor) and nationalism ...
  • Argument-adjunct distinction in Kurmanji Kurdish 
    Gündoğdu, Songül. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This dissertation investigates the status of a number of constituents in Muş Kurmanji (MK), namely postverbal goals, certain adpositional phrases, and the nominal element of noun-verb complex predicates which fall in ...
  • Classifier constructions of Turkish 
    Turgay, Tacettin. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This dissertation addresses three interrelated issues concerning classifier constructions in Turkish: (i) semantics of bare noun phrases, (ii) the function of classifiers and syntactic constituency of classifier constructions, ...
  • A computational approach to collectivity and distributivity in Turkish quantificational sentences 
    Bülbül, Eda Esra. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This dissertation discusses the nature of quantificational sentences with the quantifiers her “every” and bütün “all” in Turkish and investigates how quantificational sentences get interpreted in terms of collectivity / ...
  • Semantic, prosodic, and syntactic marking of Information Structural Units in Turkish 
    Gürer, Aslı. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This dissertation focuses on how Turkish encodes information structural units within semantics, prosody and syntax interface. Information packaging is investigated under the classification of (i) aboutness topic, (ii) ...

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