This thesis analyzes the ideological and organizational character of the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) between 1992 and 2007. Although the CHP is put on the left on the ideological spectrum, it is actually a center right ...

This thesis aims to scrutinize the subjectivities of state social workers sheltering women inside the Directorate General of Social Services and Child Protection Institute (SHÇEK) in Turkey. SHÇEK’s shelter services had ...

This study examines the relation between nonviolent social movements and the West Bank Wall in order to understand the changes that occurred in the politics of Israel-Palestine after the construction of the Wall. The ...

This thesis examines the recently emerged phenomenon of subcontracting work in the Turkish public health system. The main focus is on the health care workers, who are employed via subcontracting practices at Istanbul Faculty ...

This thesis examines the processes that caused the commodification of health care through commercialization and privatization of the services in Turkey since the 1980s. The time scope covered approximately three decades ...

Among many other things, globalization has paved the way for the promotion and acceleration of migratory movements all around the world. Technological advancements provided migrants with new forms of communication and ...

This thesis scrutinizes how state power and femininity are articulated in the police force where state power is mostly deployed by men. The police organization is taken as a micro setting where state power is gendered ...

By the late 1980s and especially in the 1990s, after centuries of repression, “suddenly” Alevism/Aleviness became visible in the public sphere. Yet, this visibility was not limited to the borders of the Alevi community. ...

The Gypsy/Roma communities in Europe have turned into an intense area of focus both at the international level and in academic circles in the last decade. In Turkey, the revival of interest with the Urban Regeneration ...

This thesis analyzes the vision that governs U.S. democracy promotion policy in the Middle East that has been put into practice after September 11 in the particular case of Egypt. The thesis argues that U.S. democracy ...