The central argument of my dissertation is that a primary characteristic of Turkish modernity is that the domains of state, Islam, and the market, in all the multiplicities each entails, struggle for economic, social, and cultural control. Yet, they are not entirely oppositional…
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Global environmental events are becoming increasingly important, because most of them enter our daily lives and somehow shape our everyday activities. Earthquakes are one of the most important environmental events affecting our life. Despite extensive media coverage, the public'…
The purposes of this study were to identify the in-service needs of high school science teachers in Istanbul, Turkey according to the subgroups such as school type and gender and determine the priority obstacles preventing these science teachers from attendance at in-service pro…
This thesis studies the L2 acquisition of transitivity alternations in English, Spanish and Turkish within the Generative framework. in particular, it sets out to investigate the interaction of universal principles and L1 knowledge in interlanguage grammars, as well as whether s…
The central contribution of this work is the identification of the determinants of the changes in the profit rates and wages among different subsectors of the Turkish manufacturing industry, with a major emphasis on the impact of changing conditions of external competition. In t…
This study seeks to understand the experience of self-mutilation in a population of women living in Turkey. The literature on self-mutilation in both Western and Turkish populations reveals that self-mutilation is a prevalent behavior among young women although the extent of the…
Capital flight was a major economic concern during the early eighties. More recently, events in South America, Asia, and elsewhere have shown that it remains an important issue for individual countries and the entire world. Given the issue's importance, there is an extensive amo…
This longitudinal inquiry into the academic literacy practices of ten Turkish scholars of International Relations (IR) attempts to answer three broad questions: what factors have affected the participants' acquisition and maintenance of academic reading and writing skills; what …
The current study investigated the impacts of a program that employed a blend of sports and cultural enrichment, known as Olympism, to build bridges between Greek and Turkish Cypriot children residing on the island of Cyprus. The program, called Doves Olympic Movement Summer Cam…
Identification as a community of sufferers has been a key feature of Turkish Cypriot trans-generational discourse since the 1960's. The changes in space and restrictions on mobility brought about by interethnic conflict and traffic accidents are two of the most prominently artic…
From an anthropologist's (Maddock, 1981) point of view, "science and science education are cultural enterprises which form a part of the wider cultural matrix of society and educational considerations concerning science must be made in the light of this wider perspective" (p.10)…
This work examines the ongoing conflict on Cyprus between Greek and Turkish ethnic groups in the context of the accumulated memories and historical injuries which each has experienced at the hands of the other. This is a critique of the traditional approaches to the Cyprus confl…
In the Western Thrace region of Greece, there is a Muslim-Turkish Minority that has had a series of problems with the Greek government and with the local Greek Majority. After a period of increasing tensions and deterioration in government-minority and minority-majority relation…
This dissertation investigates the interaction between case and referentiality in syntax and the role of such an interaction on phrase structure. It proposes that the two conditions introduced independently in the literature for argumenthood, i.e., case-assignment for visibility…
This dissertation is about the project(s) of migrant youth culture undertaken and staged by (and for) migrant youths in the public spaces of Berlin, Germany. It specifically focuses on the projects of Turkish migrant youth, their responses to social change, and their reactions t…
This thesis explored the hypothesis that speech directed to preverbal infants contains statistical, phonological, and acoustic cues that are collectively sufficient to predict membership of individual words in two rudimentary grammatical categories--content words (CW) and functi…
This dissertation investigates the acquisition of sentences that contain kind-referring expressions such as The dodo is extinct. Such statements clearly pose a learnability problem in second language acquisition of English since they are seldom, if ever, taught explicitly. Neith…
Spelling correction is a well-established NLP application, but the quality for English spelling correction tends to be significantly higher than for other languages. One significant issue for minority languages in NLP is the availability of specialized corpora for various tasks.…
This dissertation investigates the evidence for shift-induced interference in the case-marking system of Turkic languages. Through comparative analysis, it demonstrates that the range of meanings and functions expressed by case markers in modern Turkic languages, such as Uzbek, …