This dissertation provides a political-economic analysis of Turkish telecommunications policy in the period of outward-oriented development after 1980. The dissertation combines the findings of the telecommunications policy ...

Istanbul’s historically cosmopolitan center Beyoğlu, went into a silent era in the twentieth century. Globalization in late 1990s triggered a nostalgic revival. Beyoğlu was home of a cultural renaissance. By mid 2000s, ...

Islamic animal sacrifice is a topic that has been written about little but is very significant because the sacrifice practice itself is undergoing a process of change in Turkey. My argument is that kurban practices in ...

This dissertation examines migrant agricultural labor in Turkey as lens through which to explain the effects of economic, political, and geopolitical changes on rural mobilities. Two factors explain why Seasonal agricultural ...

Achille Mbembe has opened a new path for studies of violence with the con-cept “necropolitics” which refers to the “subjugation of life to the power of death.” The Mbembe’s main goal is to reveal the relationships among ...

This study examines the relationships between elementary school teachers and the early republican regime in Turkey between 1923 and 1940. Unlike the educational history literature in which the teachers are figures in the ...

In 1960 State Planning Organization was established to plan Turkey’s road to development. Comprehensive five-year developmental plans that covered social and cultural as well as economic aspects were prepared by a small ...

This thesis examines the evolution of the principle of the separation of powers in modern Turkish history. At the same time, it links the history of Turkey with recent times, especially with the 2010 Constitutional Referendum, ...

This dissertation scrutinizes space production processes in Dersim – a city culturally and politically very different from other cities in Turkey – by focusing on the actors of the city and their strategies. It claims that ...

During 1980s and 1990s, enforced disappearances, which is generally known in Turkey as being “missing in custody,” became prevalent in the regime’s hands as a means of suppressing the regime’s opponents. It has been important ...