The fascination of eighteenth century Western composers with the Eastern percussion instruments of the Turks was the impetus behind the initial use of percussion instruments in the orchestra. Consequently, the era beginning in the late eighteenth-century when percussion instrume…
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In recent decades scholars have debated intensely at which point the Ottoman Empire ended and modern Turkey emerged: is it possible to locate in history a moment when residents of Ottoman Anatolia and Thrace began to think of themselves not as subjects of an expansive, Islamic e…
This study investigated the cultural adaptation of Turkish workers living in Germany and working in an American military support environment. The study sought to determine whether host interpersonal communication and host communication competence were positively correlated with …
Political realism has dominated international relations theory for a long time. According to realism, the international politics will always consist of self-regarding states seeking to maximize their relative gains in the system and anarchy is the ordering principle of the syste…
In the field of educational administration, international-minded scholars, researchers, policymakers, and administrators are discussing the innovative concept of internationalization. Internationalization used to be a term associated most often with specific international progra…
This is a corpus-based study aimed at determining the nature of alternation between the accusative (ACC) case marking versus non-marking of the direct objects (DO) in Turkish. The analysis of the METU Turkish corpus (Say et al. 2002) and a number of news items taken from the onl…
This dissertation analyzes the language policy in Turkey and the political behavior of the proponents of the language reform, Kemalist modernists, as well as political behavior of the opposing groups, Turko-Islamic traditionalists. It also explores the causes of the language pol…
The main objective of this study is to examine the financial effects of Turkey's trade liberalization efforts, and evaluate the policy decisions made during the transition period toward full membership in the EU. In addition, trade relations between the enlarged EU and the rest …
The increasing rates of divorce in Turkey, the differences between Turkish and American culture, swift social change in Turkey, the shortage of research about divorce in Turkey, and the contradictory findings about the effects of conflict and divorce on children make it intrigui…
The post war period in Turkey witnessed a phase of rapid urbanization that strongly shaped the social and political environment during the 1960s and the 1970s. In this period, marked by the extensive politicization of the urban masses, urban problems entered into the realm of da…
Turkish is morphologically rich, free word order language. This project investigates whether and how these properties affect Turkish children's acquisition of word order and morphology in contrast to children speaking morphologically impoverished fixed-word order languages (e.g.…
In this dissertation I examine the human rights discourses in Turkey in terms of the following two issues. First, the localization of human rights within the Turkish politics, and second, its use or misuse by the Kurdish nationalists. This study employs a qualitative research de…
This dissertation is a comparative historical study of the revival of the Hebrew language as a spoken language and the Turkish language reform. It traces the birth of linguistic nationalism back to its origins in both cases and attempts to explain the crystallization of this pol…
This dissertation studies the recent growth of tourism industry in Turkey from labor's point-of-view. As tourism industry grows, it generates a strong trend of labor mobility from traditional agrarian economy into tourism. Since both agriculture and tourism rely on the same reso…
This study asks how national power capacity and state structures are reconfigured when faced simultaneously with the power diffusion impact of political globalization--defined as a consensus of ideas and subsequent pressure on states for further democratization and liberalizatio…
This study develops an integrated model of foreign policy change particularly for Third World countries. According to this model, foreign policy changes are determined by systemic, transnational and domestic factors. Following the logic of integrated approaches, omni-balancing t…
This study examined the acculturation and adaptation of married Turkish immigrants in Canada. A comparative approach was employed by incorporating the two sedentary reference groups of the Turkish migrant group: Turks in Turkey, and Euro-Canadians. In this sense it is the first …
There have been no sources of reputational studies and objective data analyses regarding the comparative quality of Turkish universities which provide information and data for prospective students, advisors, university administrators, and policy makers. State government, univers…
This dissertation investigated whether and how progress in Turkey's European Union (EU) membership project, particularly the acceptance of the Turkey's candidacy for the EU membership in 1999 and the decree of the National Program in 2001, influenced the Turkish radical national…