This study explores gender roles in Turkish-German Migrant Cinema as created by two directors, Kutlug Ataman and Fatih Akin. Informed by its predecessors, Yilmaz Guney and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who were among the first to explore the marginalization of immigrants in post-War…
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The post-Soviet region is the only area of the world in which every state is secular. Since independence in 1991, each of the 15 states has formally declared its secular nature; however, they have had drastically different policies towards religion. The Baltic states and Ukraine…
This study explored the relationship between Turkish district governors' public service motivation (PSM) levels, fairness perceptions of their performance appraisals, and their job satisfactions. The researcher employed bivariate correlation and multiple regression analysis to f…
This thesis presents a framing for analyzing forms of visual interventions by international photojournalists, documentary photographers, and filmmakers during the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union (with the focus on Russia) in the 1990s. The framing rests on the distin…
Natural disasters and terrorism present major challenges in their aftermath to a state and its populace, and help to define the identity of nations (Flynn, 2008). Destructive in their own right, previous research has argued that natural disasters also provide the catalyst for ac…
Siyasi partiler iktidara geldiklerinde nasıl bir politika izleyeceklerini parti programları ile açıklamaktadırlar. Tezimizde siyasi partilerin yerelleşme politikalarının neler olduğu parti programındaki beyanları dikkate alınarak incelenmiştir. Bu inceleme parti programdaki ifad…
The dissertation employs comparative historical methods to investigate the development of Albanian and Serbian national identity over the last two centuries. More narrowly, it traces the emergence and evolution of two foundational national myths: the story of the Illyrian origin…
19. yüzyılda feodal yaşam tarzının egemen olduğu Doğu Anadolu’da Kürtlerin aşiret şeklinde örgütlendiğini görüyoruz. Bu yapı içinde yerleşik, göçebe ya da yarıgöçebe bir şekilde yaşayan Kürtlerin liderlerine “ağa” adı veriliyordu. Köylerde adeta devletin fonksiyonlarını yerine g…
Tezde, Avrupa Birliği’ne üyelik sürecinde Sırbistan’ın Avrupa Parlamentosu’nda yapılan tartışmalarda parlamenterler tarafından kültür bağlamında ele alınıp alınmadığı araştırılmıştır. Doğu olarak adlandırılan Balkanlardan en zorlu aday ülke olan Sırbistan’a yönelik Avrupa Parlam…
This dissertation is a study of the early 20th-century Pan-Islamist reform movement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, tracing its origins and trans-imperial development with a focus on the years 1901-1914. Its central figure is the theologian and print entrepreneur Mehmed Džemaludin Čaušev…
This thesis shows how religion and politics interacted inextricably in early modern society, by a study of the szlachta (nobility) in Great Poland under the first Waza kings, Zygmunt III (1587-1632) and Wladyslaw IV (1632-48). Both affirmed the 1573 Warsaw Confederation, ensurin…
The 1992-1995 ethno-religious war in Bosnia prompted hundreds of thousands of its citizens to leave the country and seek refuge in foreign lands (Hoare, 2007). Some refugees decided to seek mental health services due to their inability to function well in their new homes (Liebli…
Does the Russian Federation in the Putin-Medvedev era follow a grand strategy, and if so, what does it look like, and how can we discern the making of Russian grand strategy? However, Russian grand strategy is neither formally codified nor readily accessible, and it remains opaq…
Refugees of war experience horrors and escape their homelands, in hopes of a better life for themselves and their children. In the 1990s, war broke out in the former Yugoslavia, and thousands of Bosnian Muslims underwent horrific experiences, including death, torture, rape, and …
The present work tells the story of the rise and fall of a pan-Balkan discourse from the mid-1920s to the eve of the Second World War through an examination of the intellectual output of southeast European diplomat-littérateurs—a range of intellectuals and literati who functione…
Bulgaristan 110.912 km² yüzölçümü ve 7,1 milyon nüfusuyla Balkanların önemli ülkelerinden biridir. Osmanlı İmparatorluğundan 1908 yılında tam bağımsızlığını elde ettikten sonra bir hayli zor zamanlar geçiren ülke, İkinci Dünya Savaşı’ndan sonra SSCB’nin etkisiyle birlikte komüni…
National Heroism, Popular Pleasure elaborates a new mode of writing the historiography of Hebrew and Yiddish literatures. It does so by examining literary works about anti-Jewish violence, and interrogating the function that graphic depictions of brutality play in texts from the…
This dissertation is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, and it examines Sarajevo’s war tour industry as a social production embedded in the contemporary realities of post-conflict society. Bosnia’s war tours take international visitors to sites that commemorate the viole…
Bu tez, 1952-67 yılları arasında Sosyalist Yugoslavya‟nın muhtelif bölgelerinden İstanbul‟a göç etmiş bir grup Arnavut kökenli göçmenin göç deneyimlerini ve vatandaşlık algılarını anlamaya yönelik niteliksel bir alan araştırmasıdır. Araştırma kapsamında, Yugoslavya‟da doğmuş, or…