Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • Nationalism and migration: the post-1950 Balkan immigrants from Yugoslavia 
    Şen, Bayram. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis examines the relationship between nationalism, emigration and identity in Turkey in the post- 1950 era. It studies the ways in which the immigrants define their nationality, legitimize their emigration to Turkey. ...
  • Power or the people: a comparison of the thoughts of Doğan Avcıoğlu and İdris Küçükömer regarding the intellectual climate of the 1960s 
    Baş, Muhammed Fazıl. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2008., 2008.)
    In the thesis, the thoughts of Dogan Avcıoglu and İdris Küçükömer are compared by focusing mainly on their most prominent works of Türkiye’nin Düzeni (1968) by Avcıoglu, and Düzenin Yabancılasması: Batılasma (1969) by ...
  • Implementation of land and agricultural reform law no. 1757 in Urfa (1960-1980) 
    Bilgen, Bahar. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis focuses on the implementation period of Land and Agricultural Reform Law No. 1757 in Urfa which was the region of implementation. The law remained in force between 1973-1978. After the application of the ...
  • Three cases of worker mobilization in contemporary Turkey 
    Birelma, Alpkan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis examines three cases of contemporary worker mobilizations with the aim of unionization in Turkey. Special emphasis is devoted to the investigation of the participant workers’ experiences and agency. It is argued ...
  • Vanishing memoirs: Doğan Kardeş children's periodical between 1945 and 1993 
    Arzuk, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This study aims to carry out a descriptive and a textual analysis of Doğan Kardeş children’s periodical, which is one of the best-remembered icons of Turkey’s popular culture. The periodical was published between 1945 and ...
  • The Marshall Plan in Turkey: a critical evaluation of United States' interests in the plan and its effects on the republic 
    Birinci, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    The aim of this thesis is to draw general implementation process of the Marshall Aid in Turkey and show the reasons for and the results of the Marshall Plan related to its implementation policy. What the United States ...
  • The opium problem in Turkey, 1930-1945 
    Gürsoy, Özgür Burçak. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This study examines the opium problem in the early Republican Turkey with its political, economic and social aspects. Opium, as an agricultural commodity, conceptually transformed under the hegemony of modernscientific ...
  • The National education board conferences and political transition: 1939-1960 
    Kılınç, Sarah Carpenter. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis uses the published reports that represent the National Education Board Conferences (Milli Eğitim Şuraları) as a means of exploring both change and continuity in the national system of education during mainly ...
  • Images and perceptions of fascism among the mainstream Kemalist elite in Turkey, 1931-1943 
    Ünver, Cennet. (Thesis (M. A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2001., 2001.)
    The image and perception of Italian Fascism and German National Socialism, as it comes to an expression mainly in the official organs of the Republican People's Party, Hakimiyet-i Milliye (Ulus) and Ülkü, and partly in the ...
  • Conspicuous consumption in Turkey in the 1950s: an examination of Hayat magazine 
    Okur, Fatma Berin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This study aims to examine the ascendance of social mobility opportunities in Turkish society in the 1950s. In so doing, it draws upon Veblen’s notion of conspicuous consumption. Veblen’s notion is striking in that it ...
  • Sinematek (Turkish Cinematheque Association): cinema and political debate between 1960-1980 
    Başgüney, Hakkı, 1978- (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis examines Sinematek Association, which was a specific phenomenon among many other cultural and social projects of the 1960s. It was established on August 25, 1965 by passionate cinema followers and lasted till ...
  • Staging the revolution: the theatre of the revolution in the Ottoman Empire 1908-1909 
    Seçkin, Bilge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This study scrutinizes the role of theater in the transformation of the public sphere and its political character by focusing on the “theater epidemic” that emerged immediately after the 1908 Revolution. This period is ...
  • The black sea region: an analysis of regional politics and cooperation in the post cold war era 
    Kundakcı, Utku. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the regional politics in the Black Sea region in the post Cold War era from an international relations perspective. The objective of the thesis is to analyze the politics of ...
  • Celebrating and remembering the festival of September 9: ritual, history, and memory 
    Ünlü, Ummahan Ceren. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This study scrutinizes the festivals of September 9 for the celebration of Izmir’s Independence Day, both as an official ceremony organized by the nation state and as a commemorative event attended and remembered by the ...
  • The National outlook and its youth in the 1970s 
    Bayraktar, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis examines the Islamist politics of the 1970s in Turkey in the light of the historical evidence about the National Outlook movement and its affiliate youth organization, the Raiders. In this thesis I argue that ...
  • Contemporary social in Turkey: workfare programs in the context of the neo-liberal international governance system 
    Savaşkan, Osman. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis focuses on the workfare programs which came onto the agenda of Turkey after 1999 Marmara earthquake and 2001 economic crisis as one of the strategies to struggle against poverty in parallel to the approaches ...
  • The impact of TÜSİAD on the European Union relations of Turkey (1995-2005) 
    Soysal, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis examines TÜSİAD and its impact on Turkey-EU relations as a civil society organization, which is an actor of foreign policy for a decade starting from the mid 90s. The changing foreign political issues in the ...
  • A history of the social struggles in Fatsa 1960-1980 
    Morgül, Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims to make a modest contribution, via the Fatsa experience, to the efforts to revive the collective memory about the social struggles in Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s. To achieve this target, the thesis ...
  • Parliamentary experience of the Turkish Labour Party: 1965-1969 
    Doğan, Erkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2000., 2000.)
    This study is an attempt to understand the political importance of the Turkish Labour Party (TLP) ( Türkiye Ýþçi Partisi) in Turkish politics and among the Turkish left in the light of the party's parliamentary experience ...
  • Tracing modernity in the popular romances of the early republican period (1930-1945): the novels of Kerime Nadir, Esat Mahmut Karakurt and Muazzez Tahsin Berkand 
    Özkurt, Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis seeks to unearth the modernity discourse in the popular romance novels of Kerime Nadir, Esat Mahmut Karakurt and Muazzez Tahsin Berkand published during the period between 1930 and 1945. The analysis of these ...