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…
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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 …
The diffusion of information and communication technologies into Turkish society has increased at an exponential rate in recent years and become an integral part of an emerging global youth culture. This study investigates Internet café usage and implications for the constructio…
This study examined the effects of acculturation, conceptions of mental illness, and selected demographic variables on the help-seeking attitudes among a group of Turkish international students (N = 18) attending college in the Midwest. Students were asked to complete a self-adm…
This study examines the "ideological cocoons" of the mechanistic-positivistic worldview that shaped mainstream modern educational thinking. The mechanistic worldview, a conceptual framework encompassing the relationship between human beings and the world, bases itself on the sci…
The objective of this dissertation is to analyze volatility of one of the fastest growing emerging stock markets namely Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). Using the daily return data of 220 firms over the period of 1992-1999 we first construct three different measures of monthly sto…
Four essays were written to examine the efficiency, market structure, and competitive conditions in the Turkish banking industry. First essay investigates a panel of 51 commercial banks operating in the Turkish banking industry over the period 1988-1996 with respect to X-efficie…
Dollarization has grown dramatically in Turkey since Turkish banks were first allowed to offer foreign exchange deposit accounts to domestic citizens in 1984, and especially since the Turkish capital account was liberalized in 1989. This thesis attempts to measure the effects of…
This dissertation seeks to explain the moderation of the Turkish Islamic party since the end of 1990s. It is hypothesized that in a relatively open and pluralist political system, like Turkey, Islamic entrepreneurs may rely on the power of capital to motivate political Islamists…
Ethnic diversity in Belgium health care is a growing problem. Based on birth certificates from 1995 and 1998 the perinatal epidemiology of Turkish, Moroccan and Belgian women in Flanders is described. A higher percentage of pregnancy diabetes in Moroccan women but only half the …
The first part of my essay investigates the institutions-growth relationship while analyzing the role of EU membership process, as a supranational anchor to further improving institutional quality. I conduct a comparative analysis of Turkey, Poland and Spain and examine this iss…
This dissertation is based on a two year ethnographic fieldstudy and analysis of the practice, political economy, gender identity, and ritual processes surrounding traditional forms of Turkish wrestling and their relationship to and influence on contemporary Turkish culture and …
This thesis investigates the binding of overt and null subject pronouns in second language (L2) acquisition and first language (L1) attrition of Turkish. The aim is to provide a comparative investigation of language transfer effects in the ultimate state of the L2 and L1 grammar…
This study raises certain questions regarding the split character of the scrambling operation in Turkish as a leftward movement. The main discussion concerns the status of post-verbal arguments. It provides evidence that although Turkish is an SOV language, OSV, SVO, OVS, and ev…
The scholarship on modernization of non-western states can be enhanced with the help of recent formal approaches to architecture such as space syntax methodology that examines the spatial morphology of the built environment. This research explores the complex dynamisms involved …
Scope and method of study . There has been consideration of alternative social security financing methods throughout the world during the last two decades. One alternative adopted in several countries is the privatization of so-called pay-as-you-go financing systems. The purpose…
In the following pages I try to present my interpretation of the enigma behind the successful co-existence between the two largest ethnic groups in Bulgaria---the Bulgarian majority and the Turkish minority---by offering a new theoretical rationalization of this atypical phenome…
Traditional thinking on security fails to explain the security predicament of Third World states. These states, with their existence assured by international recognition, are not primarily concerned with externally generated threats. Their internal characteristics violate the te…
These pages seek to elucidate why Congress responded to the 1974 Turkish intervention in Cyprus with an arms embargo that cost the United States its highly valued military bases and facilities in Turkey. The decision was at the time attributed to the influence of politically eng…