This study examines the court cases involving the abduction of women and elopement in nineteenth century Ottoman Anatolia and Rumelia provinces. It examines the relation between the law and ordinary Ottoman subjects, their ...

This study examines the ordinary Ottoman subjects "interplay with justice and law from the mid- to late nineteenth century Ottoman Anatolia and Rumelia at a time when the Ottoman state's centralization efforts escalated ...

This thesis covers a decade-long story of Armenian migrants (from Armenia) living in the Kumkapı neighborhood of Istanbul. Based on nine months of ethnographic work by the author, it treats their way of settlement, employment, ...

This thesis analyses the digital environments Facebook and Second Life. Based on a cyberethnography carried out for over a year that was supported by personal interviews, the qualities of communication and interaction on ...

This thesis examines traditional and informal dispute resolution practices used by Kurds in Istanbul, who were internally displaced in the 1990s and migrated to Istanbul, for handling their daily disputes. It discusses ...

Faring forth by critiquing those metaphors of and approaches to translation which are orientated by difference-centred theories, this thesis starts by turning this negating critique into an immanent path. The present study ...

This study explores the relations between Orthodox Christians (Rums) and Muslims from the beginning of the Tanzimat (1939) to the Exchange of popu-lations between Greece and Turkey (1923). Focusing on the Turkish- and ...

This thesis is based on the relationship between political crime and denunciation in the 1950s in Turkey. It analyzes the issue of whether there was an atmosphere of ordinary people denouncing each other in that era or ...

This study attempts to delineate what "populism" means for rural subjects in 1970s̕ Turkey, especially after the 1974 world recession that has created immense social and economic turbulences in the so-called Third World ...

This thesis scrutinizes the interpenetration of the principles of punishment and education at the discursive and practical level through focusing on the Izmir Juvenile Education House which is one of the penitentiaries ...