M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Morale, obedience, discipline :|the politics of motivation in the Ottoman Great War 
    Akar, Utku. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis aims to deal with how the Ottoman government implemented the incentives to motivate its soldiers and non-conscripted youth. This thesis takes into consideration the fact the Ottoman army is not a homogenous ...
  • Privatizing profits and socializing losses in Turkish economy :|the example of credit guarantee fund 
    Demir, Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis examines the loan guarantee system developed in order for banks to encourage lending Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Turkey. Credit Guarantee Fund Inc. (KGF was established in 1991 to provide collateral ...
  • Private indebtedness in Turkey after the 2001 financial crisis :|an inquiry on class and inequality 
    Babacan, Yunus. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    The meaning of debt augmentation is clarified in the formation of the distinction between different classes or of different socio-economic levels and these different dispositions proliferate a vague world of meaning for ...
  • In the midst of shame, guilt, needs and aspirations :|financial indebtedness of white-collar workers in İstanbul 
    Karaca, Ceren Merve (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    In Turkey, as elsewhere, statistics indicate a significant increase in household indebtedness since the beginning of the 2000s. This thesis focuses on experiences of indebtedness among a specific group, young white-collar ...
  • A descriptive analysis of the Turkish conservative right of the 1960s in the quotidian realm 
    Ayan, Yeliz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    The 1960s was a decade characterized by youth movements, new cultural alignments, student revolts and many anti-establishment movements all around the world. Turkey was no exception. Many studies have focused on the left ...
  • The transaction taxes in Turkey (1926-1934) :|negotiation between industrialists and republican governments 
    Demirkeser, Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis investigates four taxes, which are the General Consumption Tax that was enacted in 1926 and three different Transaction Taxes that were enacted in 1927, 1931 and 1934; in addition, it focuses on the creation ...
  • Dispute settlement in Turkey :|a case of dispute resolution process in Istanbul 
    Tan, Yeter. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis examines traditional and informal dispute resolution practices used by Kurds in Istanbul, who were internally displaced in the 1990s and migrated to Istanbul, for handling their daily disputes. It discusses ...
  • Russian-Turkish relations in the era of Vladimir Putin 
    Akı, Tan Berk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis focuses on the Turkish-Russian relations from the year 2000 to 2019. In this 19-year period, the Turkish-Russian relations went through different stages due to the conflict of interests between the global powers ...
  • Working class in Turkey during the World War II period: between social policies and everyday experiences 
    Nacar, Can. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    Even though Turkey did not become a part of the conflict in the World War II, the economic and social life of the country was heavily affected by the war conditions. The wartime scarcities, high levels of inflation, and ...
  • The historical development of museology in Turkey 
    Erbay, Fethiye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    The historical development of Turkish museology after 1980 will be re-searched in this thesis. The changes that happened before and after 1980 will be examined. The legal arrangements made after 1980 constitute the turning ...
  • The first five-year industrial plan :|discussions on Turkish industrialization during the great depression 
    Usta, İbrahim Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This work treats the background of the decision to implement the First Five-Year Industrial Plan in Turkey in 1934. The originality of the research relies on its perspective focusing on foreign policy, in a way that has ...
  • Neoliberalization of social housing in Turkey :|the case of Kayaşehir 
    Ruben, Duygun. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis investigates the transformations in the realm of social housing in Turkey in the AKP era. Using the theoretical framework provided by critical urban geographers, which asserts that neoliberalization processes ...
  • Volga Tatar Jadidism and its effects on the Ottoman protectionist economic thought 
    Karabacak, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis deals with the influence of the Jadid movement of the Volga Tatars in the formation of the Ottoman protectionist economic thought. It analyzes the subjects of the economic and cultural history of the Volga ...
  • Women and environmental protests :|The Cerattepe incident and the role of women in protests 
    Çınar, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis examines the experiences of local women of Cerattepe, a district of Artvin, who participate in antimining resistance in the region. As a means of exploring the relationship between women and nature, this thesis ...
  • On the 34-letter common Turkic frame alphabe 
    Ferman, Oğuzhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    The dissolution of the Soviet Union meant a relaxation of control mechanisms over Turkic peoples of Eurasia, and five Turkic nations emerged as sovereign independent nation-states namely Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, ...
  • Urban parks of Istanbul in the late Ottoman Empire :|constructed nature for recreation aims 
    Küçük, Mustafa Emir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis examines the construction processes and perception of early urban parks of Istanbul in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Parks as constructed natural spaces developed on the international scale ...
  • Political mobilization in Turkey in the 1970s: the case of the Kahramanmaraş incidents 
    Gürel, Burak. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis examines the low-intensity civil war in Turkey in the 1970s by exploring the background of the conflicts and massacres that occurred in Kahramanmaraş on 22-25 December 1978. The emergence of radical left/socialist ...
  • Comparing the relationship between Turkey and the World Bank in the 1980s vis-à-vis the 1990s 
    Atabaş, Hacer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2018., 2018.)
    The thesis discusses the conditions of disbursement and utilization of development assistance by comparing and contrasting the relationship between Turkey and the World Bank in the 1980s and the 1990s – the years in which ...
  • The inception of the articulation of Turkey to the neoliberal hegemony :|a neo-gramscian analysis 
    Mertan, Tayfun. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis examines the process of Turkey’s articulation to neoliberal hegemony via the transformation of the social relations of production and the form of state in its country in the 1980s and 1990s, from a neoGramscian ...
  • The politics of reform: Tanzimat in the province of Trabzon (1839-1960) 
    Alper, Mehmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis, on the application of the Tanzimat in the province of Trabzon, investigates the negotiations, conflicts, and compromises between central elites, local notables, and ordinary people. It shows how reforms were ...

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