M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Celebrating and remembering the festival of September 9: ritual, history, and memory 
    Ünlü, Ummahan Ceren. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This study scrutinizes the festivals of September 9 for the celebration of Izmir’s Independence Day, both as an official ceremony organized by the nation state and as a commemorative event attended and remembered by the ...
  • The National outlook and its youth in the 1970s 
    Bayraktar, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis examines the Islamist politics of the 1970s in Turkey in the light of the historical evidence about the National Outlook movement and its affiliate youth organization, the Raiders. In this thesis I argue that ...
  • Contemporary social in Turkey: workfare programs in the context of the neo-liberal international governance system 
    Savaşkan, Osman. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis focuses on the workfare programs which came onto the agenda of Turkey after 1999 Marmara earthquake and 2001 economic crisis as one of the strategies to struggle against poverty in parallel to the approaches ...
  • The impact of TÜSİAD on the European Union relations of Turkey (1995-2005) 
    Soysal, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis examines TÜSİAD and its impact on Turkey-EU relations as a civil society organization, which is an actor of foreign policy for a decade starting from the mid 90s. The changing foreign political issues in the ...
  • A history of the social struggles in Fatsa 1960-1980 
    Morgül, Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims to make a modest contribution, via the Fatsa experience, to the efforts to revive the collective memory about the social struggles in Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s. To achieve this target, the thesis ...
  • Parliamentary experience of the Turkish Labour Party: 1965-1969 
    Doğan, Erkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2000., 2000.)
    This study is an attempt to understand the political importance of the Turkish Labour Party (TLP) ( Türkiye Ýþçi Partisi) in Turkish politics and among the Turkish left in the light of the party's parliamentary experience ...
  • Tracing modernity in the popular romances of the early republican period (1930-1945): the novels of Kerime Nadir, Esat Mahmut Karakurt and Muazzez Tahsin Berkand 
    Özkurt, Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis seeks to unearth the modernity discourse in the popular romance novels of Kerime Nadir, Esat Mahmut Karakurt and Muazzez Tahsin Berkand published during the period between 1930 and 1945. The analysis of these ...
  • The transformation of the Turkish vocational training system: creation of lifelong learning, loyal technicians 
    Bulut, Ergin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis scrutinizes the current transformation of vocational training system in Turkey. Beginning with the question “Why did the vocational high schools become the problem of the country all of a sudden?” it tries to ...
  • The transformation of an industrial location: Dilovası from 1990s to present 
    Dinçer, Evren Mehmet. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This study scrutinizes the transformation of Dilovası, a densely industrialized location, from 1990s to present. It focuses on the effects of industrialization process of Turkey on Dilovası and through the data discusses ...
  • Prince Sabahattin (1878-1948) and his place in Ottoman intellectual development 
    Helvacı, Pelin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis examines Prince Sabahattin’s place in Ottoman intellectual development that started to flourish in Tanzimat era. Prince Sabahattin is portrayed with his intellectual capacity, besides his stance in politics as ...
  • Visions of aesthetics and culture in Yeni Adam: republic of fine arts (1934-1950) 
    Barlas, Şeyda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims to examine the construction of art and aesthetic as objects of national identitiy construction in both Kemalist and Yeni Adam’s cultural conservative perspective in the early Republican Turkey covers a ...
  • Agreements and friedship between Greece and Turkey in 1930: contesting nationalist discourses and press reactions 
    Vakali, Anna. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    The signing, among others, of a “friendship agreement” between Greece and Turkey in 1930 has been coined by official nationalist discourses as the initiation of a brand new “friendship-era” between the two nations. This ...
  • The genesis of the left of center in Turkey: 1965-1967 
    Emre, Yunus. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    In the thesis the discourse of left of center which came onto the agenda before the 1965 elections was scrutinized in the context of the intellectual history and social democracies of Western Europe. The left of center ...
  • The privatization of culture and the development of cultural centers in Turkey in the post-1980s 
    Başaran, Pelin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis seeks to uncover the privatization of culture in the post-1980s in the context of social and economic transformations. To achieve this aim, it compares, what motivated rich families and corporations to make ...
  • The origin of Turkey's Kurdish question: an outcome of the breakdown of the Ottoman ancien regime 
    Akyol, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis looks at the impact of the transformation of Ottoman society from a multi-ethnic, religious and decentralized structure (i.e. the Ottoman Ancien Régime) to a modern nationhood on its Kurdish citizens. The roots ...
  • Apartmentalization and middle classness: urban socio-spatial change in the period 1950s-1970s 
    Duru, Aslı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    The Turkish experience of the housing issue makes possible the display of remarkable ways, interrelations between individuals and their residential practices as well as the functional necessities developed within the context ...
  • The statist industrialization and the formation of industrial working class in the early republic 
    Dingiloğlu, Selin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    The basic concern of this master’s thesis is to develop a historical approach towards the statist industrialization initiated in early 1930s and the formation of Turkish industrial working class with its economic, social, ...
  • Agricultural growth in the 1930s in Turkey 
    Akarçay, Ayça. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Atatürk's Principles and the History of Turkish Renovation, 1999., 1999.)
    Assessment of the economic development of the 1930s in Turkey have mainly emphasized industrial development, which is attributed to state-led policies (etatism). However, developments in agricultural sector were also ...
  • The labor unionism of 1946 
    Öztürk, Osman. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    During the transition to a multi-party system in Turkey during 1946, the prohibition of founding societies “based on class” was lifted. Thus, the way was open to unionist organizations. At this turning point of the Republic’s ...
  • Political change and working class formation between 1945-1960 in Turkey 
    Kocabaş, Erdem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2006., 2006.)
    The conditions and properties of the working class formation between the end of the Second World War and the military intervention of 1960 have not recieved the attention they deserve from scholars working in the field of ...

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