This dissertation has two main foci: first, on the experiences of Turkish women in the German educational system, and to what extent state policies, cultural pressures, and personal choice influence their decision to pursue higher education; second, how state policies, cultural …
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The Kurdish people have historically occupied the eastern and southeastern regions of Turkey. Since 1923 the Kurdish question is still the most serious internal issue in the Turkish republic's eighty-eight year history. Undoubtedly, one of the main obstacles for the Kurds in Tur…
This thesis investigates the representation and acquisition of word-level stress in Turkish. Two general proposals are made in the thesis, one related to formal phonology, the other about second language (L2) acquisition of word-level prosody. The first proposes that the presenc…
This longitudinal, mixed-method study relied on the assumption that international students as newcomers to the American culture experience conceptual socialization which enables them to gain competency in the target language through exposure to the target language culture. By co…
This study explores and analyzes late 19th and early 20th century Ottoman-Turkish novels which were shaped by the political and social transformations of the Ottoman Empire at the time, and reveals a pattern in the formation of male identities. The novel form was introduced to T…
Variable /r/ deletion in word final position has been explored in several languages such as English and different dialects of Spanish. This study will investigate /r/ deletion in Turkish, an Altaic language that belongs to Ural-Altaic languages family. Specifically, the purpose …
In the summer of 1974, violence rent the island of Cyprus and resulted in its division into two ethnically homogeneous regions. After nearly a century of British colonial rule (1878-1959), Cypriots had enjoyed a brief period of independence before ideologies and intrigues brough…
This dissertation translates into English and provides annotations for the 254-page Ottoman Turkish manuscript, Mevâ'idü'n-Nefâ'is fi Kavâ'idi'l-Mecâlis , composed in 1599-1600 by the renowned Ottoman historian and bureaucrat Gelibolulu Mustafa Âli. This is the first translation…
This dissertation is focused on analyzing phonological contact between Slavic and non-Slavic languages in southeastern and northeastern Europe, with the particular goal of describing how the social context of language contact interacts with linguistic factors to shape the outcom…
A few studies have observed that an inappropriate prosodic contour can mislead the syntactic parsing routines, resulting in a prosody-induced garden-path. Studies by Speer et al. (1996) and Kjelgaard and Speer (1999) (SKS) showed that misplaced prosodic cues caused more processi…
By comparing current solo “improvisations” ( taksim-s), recordings of such performances from the earlier part of the period studied (1910-2010), and the official classical Turkish music theory as formulated in textbooks of the twentieth century, this study firstly determines the…
This dissertation explores the immigration of Turkish "guest workers" to West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s and focuses on the decision making of workers who actively shaped new lives in West Germany, as they dealt with the emerging permanence of their situation. The frequently…
This study is a comparative study of the Turkish Islamist movement Milli Görüs (IGMG) in Germany and the Netherlands. It is a qualitative and a quantitative inquiry about the nature (whether it is moderate or radical) of the Milli Görüs movement in these two countries. The centr…
In contemporary Germany, ethnicity may be used to exclude groups of people, but a particular combination of logics enables homosexuality to be a category for national inclusion. The first chapter lays out the theoretical, methodological and ethical groundwork for my exploration …
The decade of the 1950s and early 60s in Turkey witnessed a proliferation of popular historical literature on Ottoman women. The uniqueness of these writings, in terms of the representations of Ottoman women they introduce, stand out in light of the erasure of Ottoman women from…
Luther's response to the Turkish threat in the sixteenth century shows both continuity and contrast with his predecessors. Unable to obtain a copy of the Qur'an until the end of his life, he was dependent on the writings of others and was especially indebted to the polemical wor…
This dissertation seeks to understand how the easing of the East-West tensions, the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the Soviet Union affected Turkey's foreign policy. During the cold war period, Ankara's role as a front-line state in containing. Soviet expansionism…
This research analyzes and assesses the major issues regarding coordinated response operations in destructive earthquakes. The research examines the decision making process in the context of seismic risk to exemplify how public managers can utilize the information and communicat…
In this study, the coping efforts of Turkish couples, one of whom had Type II diabetes, were examined from a dyadic perspective. The aim was to investigate in detail the coping strategies used by the couples which served the primary function of relieving partner's stress rather …