This study asks why competitive electoral politics emerged in Turkey and nowhere else in the post-colonial Muslim Middle East. It shows that on the eve of the departure of the imperial powers from the region, the nature of nascent indigenous party systems had a significant impac…
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This dissertation is about the cultural and socioeconomic experience and assimilation of Turkish immigrants and their descendants in three countries: Canada, the United States, and Germany. In these countries, the Turks form diaspora communities. Describing Turkish immigrant com…
Although substantial research has been devoted to explaining the relations between intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and states, there is a dearth of research on the interactions between domestic actors (such as civil society organizations) and IGOs. Building on a theoretic…
Parents of children with autism have long been using parent support groups in order to gather new information, share their experiences, and receive emotional support. During the last decade, the proliferation of Internet and communication technologies enabled parents to form onl…
This research examines the substance abuse severity problem of the male narcotics arrestees of Turkey within the framework of Akers' Social Structural and Social Learning (SSSL) model. The SSSL model is tested to understand the impact of social structural factors on drug abuse s…
This study examines sources of electoral support in Turkey and seeks to explain how Turkish voters approach electoral choice. The existing literature on Turkish voting behavior tends to emphasize social and cultural cleavages as the primary sources of voter alignments and party …
This thesis develops a theory of translation in architecture, and explores the history of cross-cultural exchanges that transformed the residential culture in Turkey and Germany through the agency of immigrants, travelers, collaborating local architects and international student…
This dissertation focuses on how different Islamic groups attempt to assert their authority to represent "True Islam" for Muslims living in Europe and how they cope with challenges from rivals with different interpretations. It focused on four Islamic communities ( cemaat ) that…
Despite various conflicting assertions in mass media; religious literature and daily conversations, Turkish art education, on curricular, instructional and research levels, remains mute on the issue of "the lawfulness of figurative representation" in Islamic cultures. By reviewi…
In several parts of the world psychological assessment involves translating major cognitive tests usually from the United States and England, and standardizing them for their prospective culture. Turkey is one such culture where psychology is flourishing, but psychological asses…
This thesis focuses on how some 'Greek Cypriots' and 'Turkish Cypriots' in North London locate themselves as such through the lived experience of each other in a given context and time. It aims to explore and problematize the notions of 'Self and 'Other' as positioning strategie…
In this dissertation I explore the relationship between women, the state, and religious institutions in western Austria---the most conservative part of the country. The fall of the Iron Curtain triggered widespread fears of massive migration flows from Eastern Europe, and create…
This dissertation argues that we are better able to evaluate immigrant identification by looking at the host context and the ways in which the legal environment and the existing perception of the immigrant group define, constrain and create an immigrant identity. The way boundar…
This is an experimental study that tested children's (age range 3;0--6;0) comprehension of indefinite objects in Turkish with a particular focus on the effect of the accusative case marker on the scope assignment to objects with respect to negation and adverbs. The results show …
This dissertation examines the elliptical structures of (a) sluicing (John called someone, but I don't know who!), (b) fragment answers (A: Who did John call?, B: Mary!), (c) gapping (John is eating ice-cream, and Mary apple pie!), and (d) Right Node Raising (John cooked and Mar…
This dissertation investigates and analyzes the process of subject formation among Turkish immigrants of the second and third generation in the southwestern German region of Swabia (Schwaben). The study shows how Turkish immigrants find salient ways to formulate their subjectivi…
The present study assessed adolescent prosocial behaviors toward parents, siblings, and grandparents and its correlates among Turkish early adolescents. The goals of the present study were fourfold. First, we examined age differences in adolescents' and their parents' reports of…
This dissertation examines the growing landscape of Turkish-language television and radio broadcasting in Berlin. Challenging the contention that these forms of migrant cultural production can be understood as a strictly local phenomenon, the research presented here explores the…
In Turkey, Islamists and secularists have long battled to control public opinion. Secularists have attempted to lock religion into the private sphere. For their part, Islamists have struggled to gain and maintain public visibility. On each side, activists have exerted pressures …