Even though Turkey did not enter World War II officially, it was inevitable for her to be affected by a war that had repercussions throughout the world. Therefore, in a parallel fashion to the new developments following ...

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 ...

This study strives to shed light on the socio-cultural transformations of a period, the 1980s. This decade, for Turkey, is evaluated throughout the thesis as a new break incontinuity rather than a total differentiation. ...

This thesis scrutinizes the initial step in the formation of an autonomous Kurdish left movement, the Revolutionary Eastern Cultural Hearths, following the social mobilization in Turkey in the late 1960s. The dissociation ...

This study scrutinizes Paşabahçe borough which had witnessed deindustrialization as a prominent social change and came to be threatened with displacement due to the rise of neoliberal urbanism. The specific characteristic ...

This thesis consists of a case study of the interaction of nationalism andglobalization in a specific geography: the Balkans, more precisely, Albania, Kosovo andMacedonia. The thesis is focused on three major issues: first, ...

The aim the thesis is to analyze thoroughly an exemplary micro-economic sphere in the nineteenth century. To achieve such purpose, I chose to scrutinize the shipping sector in the Anatolian Black Sea between 1830 and1861. ...

This study aims to analyze the post-1980 export-oriented industrialization story of the leading provinces of Anatolia, the commonly called “Anatolian Tigers”, by focusing firstly on the Turkish manufacturing industry data ...

The Turkish experience of the housing issue makes possible the display of remarkable ways, interrelations between individuals and their residential practices as well as the functional necessities developed within the context ...

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, ...