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  • Kosovo problem and options to final status 
    Troşala, Arzu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    Few places in the world of the size and population of Kosovo have received an attention both among policy makers and academics. Why is Kosovo important? The Kosovo problem deserves attention because it occupies a central ...
  • Kurdish tribes and the question of assimilation in Turkey 
    Azbay, Hüseyin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    After modern Turkey was founded, state elite initiated a comprehensive nationbuilding project and assimilation of Kurds has been a fundamental of part that project. From forced resettlement to compulsory Turkish education, ...
  • Kurdish urban politics in the neoliberal era: cases of Diyarbakir and Van mobilized under BDP 
    Sümer, Bilgesu (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This thesis explores why urban politics became integral for Kurdish movement and how Kurdish movement mobilizes municipalities by examining the cases of Diyarbakir and Van whose municipalities are run by the political party ...
  • Leadership of Meral Akşener :|transforming or reproducing the Turkish nationalist righ 
    Melek, Emircan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Idealism is an eclectic nationalist ideology, where women's visibility is low and masculine indoctrination is dominant. This thesis argues that Meral Akşener transformed the nationalist right in a democratic and feminist ...
  • Long waited brothers or unwelcome guests: the logic of reception mechanisms of a receiving state: Turkey and its asylum seekers in 1989 and 1991 
    Çatır, Gül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis scrutinizes the impact of the nation-state in shaping the immigration and asylum flows. It sees the state as the primary agent in determining the reception contexts that await the immigrants, asylum seekers and ...
  • Media and democracy in Turkey: the 2011 Turkish national election coverage 
    Bieber, Selina Denise. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This thesis aims to examine the ability of the Turkish media to fulfil its democratic role for the Turkish public by case studying the 2011 national Turkish elections. Given the limited number of previous studies existing ...
  • Media ownership structure and media freedom analyzed from a republican conceptualization of freedom 
    Köksal, Mert. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis demonstrates how and why contemporary media ownership structure in Turkey damages the internal freedom of journalists. After explaining the emergence of the ownership structure, which is monopolistic, the ...
  • Nationalism and the disintegration of multi-ethnic federations in post-communist eastern Europe: |the case of Czechoslovakia 
    Bodur, Marella. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1995., 1995.)
    Since its foundation in 1918 Czechoslovakia had tried to sol ve the problems created by the association of the two different ethnic groups, namely Czechs and Slovaks. Policies pursued during the interwar and communist ...
  • Neighborhood projects of education: the case of the Halkevi summer school in Okmeydanı 
    Murat, Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This study aims to analyze the effects of state violence in everyday life on an alternative education program. Halkevleri has organized free Summer Schools for children at their ages of primary and secondary schools in ...
  • Neo-liberal transformation of agriculture in Turkey? a case study with olive producers in Ayvalık 
    Aytemur, Nurcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Based on a close study of the olive sector in Turkey, this thesis demonstrated how neo-liberalism consists of contested political processes. Recognizing the uneven and multi-dimensional character of neo-liberalism as a ...
  • New nationalisms in Turkey in the field of popular art: the case of Kurtlar Vadisi 
    Sayan, Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In the post-colonial and post-communist world nationalism has become a subject of great interest to academics and political commentators alike. This interest has generated by the fact that after the end of the Cold War, ...
  • Nezihe Muhiddin: |an Ottoman Turkish women's rights defender 
    Zihnioğlu, Yaprak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    This thesis has attempted to show through a study of Nezihe Muhiddin and her works that women sought their political rights before they were granted them in 1934. It has long been claimed that women were given their rights ...
  • Nezihe Muhiddin: |bir Osmanlı-Türk kadın hakları savunucusu 
    Zihnioğlu, Yaprak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    Bu çalışmada, Nezihe Muhiddin'in düşünceleri ve etkinlikleri incelenerek, ülkemizde 1934'de kadınlara siyasal hakların Kemalistler tarafindan verilmesinden önce, kadınların siyasal haklarını almak üzere harekete geçtikleri ...
  • On Hannah Arendt’s conception of judgment with regard to political action: an attempt at reconciling the perspectives of actor and spectator 
    Menasse, Sophie. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis explores the relation between judgment and action in Arendt’s theory and comprises four main arguments. Firstly, I challenge the argument that there is a shift in Arendt’s theory of judgment from a future-­‐oriented ...
  • Online streaming: a survey of online sharing and piracy 
    Baran, Şebnem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    Communication technologies have always sparked big debates about their possible effects on human life and the society. The excitement and the fear caused by the invention of television is one among many other such examples ...
  • Packaging neoliberalism: neopopulism and the case of the Justice and Development Party 
    Yağcı, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Justice and Development Party’s continuous popularity among the lower classes despite its neoliberal economic policies has puzzled political analysts. This study attempts to sketch party’s strategies toward ‘packaging’ ...
  • Patterns of political participation in post-1980 Turkey 
    Zenginkuzucu, Dikran Migirdiç. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    This study analyses the socio-economic dynamics of political participation in Turkey after 1980 and, in this context, tests the hypothesis of the socio-economic mobilisation theory. The project is an investigation of the ...
  • Political economy of agricultural protectionism in the EU and US 
    Saraç, Esin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    Until the Uruguay Round, agriculture was an exceptional issue in international trade talks. However, at the end of the Uruguay Round, the agricultural sector was brought under the WTO disciplines. The proponents of the ...
  • Political football: Making football fandom a symbol of political dissent 
    İncedere, Kamile Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study aims to examine the role and effects of politicization of football fandom in the Gezi Movement, which was the biggest social upheaval of Turkish political history in the 2000s. This movement brought a lot of ...
  • Political Islam and democracy :|how Islamist political parties survive in hostile settings 
    Sağlam, Kadir Barış. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In Muslim majority countries, political parties with Islamic backgrounds often come to power after democratic openings (e.g., first democratic elections). Only some of these parties, however, manage to survive after ...

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