This dissertation examines employment and working conditions of tourism service workers employed in mass tourism-oriented holiday villages located in Manavgat (Antalya) and Fethiye (Muğla). By focusing on workplace and the ...

This thesis aims to show how the novels of Yaşar Kemal comprising The Other Face of the Mountain trilogy-The Wind from the Plain (1960), Iron Earth, Copper Sky (1963) and The Undying Grass (1968)-function as "liberative ...

This thesis investigates the social, economic and political impact of mass migration into the Ottoman Empire after the Russian-Ottoman War of 1877-1914 on locals, migrants and thestate, and their everyday responses to each ...

This thesis aims at providing a social history of the police force in the late Ottoman Empire from the beginning of the establishment of the modern police forces under the Ministry of Police till the end of the Ottoman ...

This thesis, as a work of social history, studies medicine as political phenomena through its three aspects: public hygiene within the urban space, syphilis and forensics, in the late Ottoman Empire. As a result of the ...

This study aims to explore how a group of Muslim and Christian women of Mersin remember and narrate their life experiences in relation to modernity, the Republican reforms and the intercommunal relations between the Mus-lims ...

This dissertation narrates the historical trajectory of Istanbul’s urban rail infrastructure to trace the transformation of state-business relations and urban politics under late Turkish capitalism. Urban rail transit ...

This thesis examines the associational life of Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria in Turkey. Firstly, this thesis argues how the communal identity of “Bulgaristanlı Turks” which is shaping by assimilation policies of the ...

This thesis explores the history of the Turkish minority of Western Thrace from 1923 until the present time. By presenting the life conditions and the problems that the minority has faced in Greece it shows what an important ...

This thesis aims to deal with how the Ottoman government implemented the incentives to motivate its soldiers and non-conscripted youth. This thesis takes into consideration the fact the Ottoman army is not a homogenous ...