This thesis focuses on a space of economic production, trade and labor. It examines Gedikpaşa, a neighborhood in the city of Istanbul’s historical peninsula and its informal footwear market, which consists of small-scale ...

This thesis examines the gender-specific provisions of social security and labor legislations in Turkey. The development of the gendered policies in question is traced back through the modern history of Turkey, focusing ...

This thesis examines German soft power policies in the Balkans and Turkey in the Interwar Era. How certain German non-state actors such as the Messeamt, the Leipzig Trade Fair, chambers of commerce, etc. took the initiative ...

This thesis scrutinizes the interaction between the organizing in places where people live and the formation of working class identities in the post 2000 period in Turkey by focusing on two gecekondu neighbourhood resistances ...

One of the most important episodes of Turkish-American foreign relations during the Independence War was General Harbord mission. Even though the idea behind the mission was to understand the feasibility of a large, ...

This thesis presents an evaluation of the Turkish health system by focusing on the socialization of health services undertaken in 1961. The historical analysis is situated within a theoretical framework that addresses the ...

Kuzguncuk is a small, popular village in Istanbul near the Bosphorus. According to most official and unofficial written and oral documents, Kuzguncuk was a village of mostly Jews, Greeks, and Armenians rather than Muslim ...

In this thesis the identity problem in literary works of Cevat Şakir (known as “Balıkçı”) will be studied, in terms of his approach to the “sea”. In his works, a systematic discussion of a genesis thesis cannot be seen. ...

This study examines the Institute of Revolution founded in the body of the Istanbul University after the university reform in 1933 and the first Revolution Lectures given in 1934. This experience, which has not been yet ...

This study concerns the debates about the question of women that were ongoing in the popular press of Turkey in the 1920s and looks at the traces of these debates in obscene literature as a marginal branch of popular ...