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 thesis examines the creation of a new army in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century manned by conscripts. Starting from the eighteenth century, significant reforms were introduced in the Empire. A new army and ...

The main argument of this thesis is that Eskişehir of the nineteenth century was a subject of the orientalist discourse, which paved the way to its being molded by the "West," facilitating both intentionally and unintentionally ...

The aim of this study is to place the Ottoman geography education during the Hamidian period within the context of territoriality; that is, Abdulhamid II’s attempts to integrate all provinces of the empire into his own ...

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 thesis examines Near East Relief’s aid campaign in occupied Constantinople (1918-1923) in the post-war Near East. Taking advantage of long standing theoretical debates on the politics of aid, this thesis approaches ...

This thesis examines the low-intensity civil war in Turkey in the 1970s by exploring the background of the conflicts and massacres that occurred in Kahramanmaraş on 22-25 December 1978. The emergence of radical left/socialist ...

This thesis examines the loan guarantee system developed in order for banks to encourage lending Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Turkey. Credit Guarantee Fund Inc. (KGF was established in 1991 to provide collateral ...

This thesis examines the emergence and transformation of social development as a governmental strategy within the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) in the 1990s. GAP, which emerged as an infrastructure project to build ...

The late nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of a new mentality about work, society and crime among the Ottoman elites. As work became the central principle on which society was based, the unemployed and poor began ...