This study examined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, which has been the most radical ethnic terrorist movement in Turkey. The objective of the study was to assess whether Turkey's policies and actions to stop the PKK terrorism have been really effective at this point. Emplo…
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Structure-agency relations are usually conceived as two-dimensional dyadic relationships. However, these relationships are better understood when a third dimension, discourse, is included. This study presents a case of law professors in early republican Turkey (1923-1945) with a…
This dissertation calculates a key economic indicator for the Turkish economy, the profit rate, according to a procedure that is developed in line with most studies on the profit rate, for the years between 1968 and 2000. Chapter 2 describes the benchmark procedure of calculatio…
The goal of this research is to design and build a lexical database for adjectives in the Turkish language. I used text data from on-line newspapers and magazines available on the Internet as a resource for lexical information. I collected a textual corpus of about one million r…
The goal of this study was to examine DSM's posttraumatic stress disorder's (PTSD) symptom structure in relation to Turkish earthquake survivors and to examine the strength of associations of several risk/resilience variables with PTSD. In addition, the aim of the study was to l…
This study examines the self-reported beliefs and self-reported practices of Turkish in-service early childhood education teachers living in Turkey in order to develop an understanding of the beliefs held by Turkish teachers about appropriate early childhood education practices,…
This dissertation examines the struggle of nationalist leaders and intellectuals to create a meaningful and coherent language of political identity in the final years of the Ottoman Empire and the first decades of the Turkish Republic. In so doing, it attempts to demonstrate two…
This dissertation examines how immigrants from Turkey enact belonging in German society and cities. I argue that both immigrants and the host society enact belonging in a dialectical process that links the ways in which immigrants express their identities with the ways that the …
The main objective of this dissertation is to investigate the dynamics of credit expansion and its link with economic volatility in Turkey. First, we introduced currency substitution as a factor, which becomes intertwined with liquidity preference in the case of a financially li…
The political integration of immigrants has become a leading policy issue across countries of Western Europe with no nation perhaps more challenged than Germany. In this dissertation, I examine one central aspect of immigrants' political integration in Germany--the development o…
This study explored how attributional styles and willingness to seek psychological help varied across Turkish and American college students. It was found that the two factor structure of Brickman's Attribution Model replicated in Turkish culture, thereby providing support for th…
This series of essays examines the role of bank networks before, during and after the Turkish banking crisis of 1999-2001. The analysis focuses on different aspects of bank interaction, such as payment and settlement systems, mergers and acquisitions and technology sharing. Afte…
Purpose. This study identifies a model made up of 10 Turkish public university president governance roles based on the Cohen and March model (M. D. Cohen & J. G. March, 1986). The significance of a Turkish model of governance roles derives from gaps in the Turkish literature, ne…
This study argues that the existing segregation between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot schooling can be traced back to the period between 1920 and 1935, when crucial political and educational events shaped the course of subsequent educational development. These events, in con…
This dissertation is concerned with the acquisition of evidential markers by Turkish-speaking children and their non-linguistic source monitoring abilities. Evidential markers encode the speaker's source for the information being reported in the utterance. While some languages l…
Almost every natural language contains support verb constructions that are language-specific. Their common function is to re-verbalize or verbalize nominals. As a result of nominalization, the original verb is deprived from its syntactic features, however it often retains many o…
American and German educational systems have both experienced an increase of ethnic groups in the classrooms; however, in both countries the increase in ethnic groups is not matched by increases in the numbers of minority teachers (NEA, 2005). Therefore, challenges such as inter…
Public schools rarely teach the languages spoken in New York City. Thus, many ethnolinguistic communities have to rely on ethnic mother tongue schools. Research on these schools is limited despite their importance in shaping the identities of children from different ethnic backg…
The Turkish Republic has experienced a rise in Islamic influence in contemporary politics and in society, culminating in popular support for the Islamic Justice and Development Party and their new Prime Minister in the 2002 elections. This influence questions the 'project of mod…