M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Visualization of culture, history and memory in Turkey: museum politics in the post-1980s 
    Yılmaz, Seçil. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis explores the museum as an institution of the modern state. It seeks to uncover the transformation in the museum in which the visualization and organization of the information of the past has shaped in Turkey ...
  • Armenian political thinking in the second constitutional period: The case of Krikor Zohrab 
    Koptaş, Murat. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis aims to examine the attitude of the Ottoman Armenian society and its political elites towards the idea of Ottomanism and Constitutional Regime in the Second Constitutional Period, in which an atmosphere of ...
  • Reha Oğuz Türkkan and Pan-Turkist movement in Turkey (1938-1947) 
    Kaya, Murat. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis aims to examine the discourse and activities of Reha Oğuz Türkkan, a leading representative of the Pan-Turkist revival during the Second World War in Turkey. The Pan-Turkist ideology, which began to develop ...
  • Soviet studies on Turkey, 1917-1991: institutional history and analytical perspectives 
    Şahin, Liaisan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    Turkish studies represent one of the oldest and most developed branches of Russian Orientalstudies. The peculiarities of Russian-Turkish relations and Russia̕s consequent close interest inTurkey have determined the fact. ...
  • The reception of liberty in Konya, September 1908 - April 1909 
    Asil, Ercüment. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis traces the path that led to divergences in the public opinion in Konyabetween September 1908 and April 1909. Following the proclamation of the Constitution, the Selanik headquarters of the CUP sent a delegation ...
  • The bourgeois transformation and Ottomanism among Anatolian Armenians after the 1908 revolution 
    Kılıçdağı, Ohannes. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis examines the bourgeois transformation and the Ottomanist discourse among Anatolian Armenians. The period it focuses is between the 1908 Revolution, which was saluted with joy by most of the people in the Ottoman ...
  • Fashion and women in the İstanbul of the armistice period, 1918-1923 
    Mahir, İkbal Elif. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis examines women̕s changing fashions throughout the Armistice period to understand the transformation of Istanbul women before the foundation of the Turkish Republic exploring mainly articles published in popular ...
  • Social rationality of lower class criminal practices in the late nineteenth century İstanbul 
    Cörüt, İlker, 1980- (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    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 ...
  • The republic's children and their burdens in 1930s and 1940s Turkey: the idealized middle class children as the future of the nation and the image of "poor" children in children's periodicals 
    Ertem, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    This study aims to contribute to highlighting some mainstream perceptions of the Turkishnation-state about its children from 1930s till the middle of the 1940s in the light of themes from children̕s periodicals. This paves ...
  • The transformation of the politics of punishment and the birth of prison in the Ottoman Empire (1845-1910) 
    Şen, Hasan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    This work examines the governing mentality of the Ottoman Empire by looking specifically to its punishment politics in the nineteenth century. It was aimed to examine how new kinds of punishment politics wereintroduced in ...
  • The Palestinian-Israeli peace process in international context with a note on the consequences for Turkish foreign policy 
    Aras, Bülent. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Atatürk's Principles and the History of the Turkish Renovation, 1996., 1996.)
    This thesis aims to analyze the whole process of peace attempts between Palestinians and Israelis in accordance with the systemic changes in international relations. Here the focal point will be the emergence of the new ...
  • Turkish-Balkan policy after the cold war 
    Kelkitli, Fatma Aslı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis examines the Turkish-Balkan policy since the establishment of the Republic until now. Special emphasis is given to the period after the end of the Cold War as Turkish foreign policy gained several new aspects ...
  • The photocopied 1990s: youth, culture, and fanzines 
    Altun, Murat. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis strives to elucidate the cultural transformation of a period, the 1990s, considering fanzines as products of youthful experiences. The 1990s are conceptualized throughout the thesis following the argument of ...
  • Social policies on female body in Turkey in the 1930s 
    Yurttagüler, Laden. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis explores the social policies on female body in the 1930s in Turkey. The 1930s witnessed the construction and the institutionalization of the new regime. Early Republican elite had a vision and a project in the ...
  • Yüzellikler and Süleyman Şefik Kemali: a legitimacy and security ıssue 
    Özkan, Şerife. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis studies the Yüzellilikler, the 150 names decided upon by the government to remain outside of the general amnesty included in the Treaty of Lausanne, and the case of Süleyman Şefik Kemali Söylemezoğlu, who was ...
  • Turkey's experience with microcredit: the new governmental strategy 
    Özer, Sinem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    Microcredit delivery to the poor in order to encourage them to involve in income-generating activities or develop their micro-enterprises emerged as a survival strategy on the basis of the assumption that the poor can ...
  • Reconstructing the experienceS of lower class women in urban Turkey during the World War II 
    Sarıoğlu, Esra. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis explores the work experiences and social lives of the lower class working women within World War II years in urban Turkey. The years of war witnessed almost doubling of the women workers in big cities. Labor ...
  • Discourses on the economic crises of 1979 and 2001 from a comparative perspective 
    Tekerek, Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    This study analyses the discourses on the economic crises of 1979 and 2001 from a comparative perspective. The different ways the field of economy was conceived, and how society was imagined in the late-1970s, and early-2000s ...
  • Minorities in the Balkans in the era of globalisation: the case of the Turks in Western Thrace 
    Demesticha, Maria. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    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 ...
  • Wars outside the war: social impact of the second World War on Turkey 
    Metinsoy, Murat. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    The social impact of Second World War on Turkey has not attracted the attention of scholars because of the politico-historical approach in Turkish historiography, which holds the state, elites, macro-economic developments. ...

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