M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • A discourse about normalization or fantasy and Its reflections on everyday life: a cultural-historical analysis of two popular magazines of the 1950's, Bütün Dünya and Hafta 
    Özkan, Fulya. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    Even though Turkey did not enter World War II officially, it was inevitable for her to be affected by a war that had repercussions throughout the world. Therefore, in a parallel fashion to the new developments following ...
  • Development of railways in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey 
    Bayraktaroğlu, Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Atatürk's Principles and the History of the Turkish Renovation, 1995., 1995.)
  • Resimli Ay Magazine (1929-1931): the emergence of an oppositional focus between socialism and avant-gardism 
    Uslu, Mehmet Fatih. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis focuses on the two-year period of Resimli Ay magazine between 1929-1931, which was published between 1924-1931. This period bore witness to the magazine's transformation from an American-like popular magazine ...
  • Politics of cultural change and religious discourse in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire and Qajar Persia 
    Huntzinger, Emmanuel. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis looks at the dynamics of rapid changes affecting cultures, discourses and ideologies in the early modern Ottoman and Qajar empires up to the constitutional revolutions of the early twentieth century. Both ...
  • The decimation of livestock :|the Ottoman East in the Great War 
    Kahvecioğlu, Batuhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis investigates the reasons and effects of the small-cattle and draft animals' deaths during the Great War from an environmental history perspective. Focusing on the Eastern Ottoman region, it shows that the ...
  • Migration, identity and politics :|the case of Bulgaristanlı Turks 
    Arslan, Sinem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2021., 2021.)
    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 ...
  • Understanding generation Z :|their attitudes towards to family, educationand social life 
    Kılıç, Çağatay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis analyzes Turkish Generation Z, which has been scrutinizing recently in terms of family, education, and socialization, and also in comparison between its Western counterparts. The research is based on the thought ...
  • Writing of(f) hunger, life, and the self :|biopolitics and poetics of Nâzım Hikmet’s hunger strike 
    Keser, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2021., 2021.)
    In this thesis, focusing on his hunger strike in 1950, I try to problematize the presentim age of,and discourse on, Nâzım Hikmet. Drawing on a wide variety of fields including intellectual history,criticaltheory, social ...
  • The failure of the new Erzincan project in light of party-state relations at the local level 
    Mutlu, Elşen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Erzincan Earthquake in 1939 is one of the greatest natural disaster in the history of the Turkish Republic. More than thirty thousand people have died and city of Erzincan was wiped out of the map. As a response to it, ...
  • Tevhid ve Sünnet Cemaati as an Islamic social movement 
    Özkul, Mehmet Özgün. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis examines the formation of Salaϐi identity in Tevhid ve Sünnet Cemaati, an Islamic group that was founded by Halis Bayancuk aka Ebu Hanzala in 2007 Turkey, by focusing on the role of culture in mobilizing and ...
  • Under Mehmed ‘Alī's impact :|dispatching students to Europe in the Reign of Mahmud II (1830–1839) 
    Zorcu, Muratcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2021., 2021.)
    The transformation of the Ottoman Empire throughout the nineteenth century certainly grew out of the earlier discussions of reforms. While initial steps were taken to restructure the Ottoman military, these re forms had ...
  • The National Outlook Movement's vision of capitalist society in Turkey (1968-1980) 
    Ünal, Leman Meral. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    As the first openly Islamist movement in the Turkish legal political scene, the National Outlook Movement came into existence with the foundation of the National Order Party under Necmettin Erbakan’s leadership in 1970 ...
  • German soft power in Turkey and the Balkans in the Interwar Era, 1918-1939 
    Perk, Mert Doğukan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis examines German soft power policies in the Balkans and Turkey in the Interwar Era. How certain German non-state actors such as the Messeamt, the Leipzig Trade Fair, chambers of commerce, etc. took the initiative ...
  • Housewife :|woman with multiple identities 
    Ören Kurşuncu, İleyna. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis examines the upper-middle class Turkish housewives with a focus on their practices and ideas. For this purpose, in-depth interviews were conducted with thirteen housewives between the ağe of fifty and sixty who ...
  • Turkey's experience with planning in the 1960s 
    Özden, Barış Alp, 1978- Author. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis tries to shed light on the broad relationship between state and economic change in Turkey by studying the institutional history of the State Planning Organization in the 1960s. The recent literature on the ...
  • Diyanet in the transnational field :|DİTİB in Germany in the 1980s 
    Bulut, Batıkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis argues that the Turkish Islamic Synthesis (TIS) was re-produced in Germany by means of DİTİB, which was established by the Presidency for Religious Affairs (Diyanet) of the Republic of Turkey. The TIS, which ...
  • The Ottoman tribal school :|surveillance and the students’ lives 
    Akın, Tutku. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis, on the Ottoman tribal school, investigates the surveillance and the students’ lives in the school. It shows how Abdulhamid II and his officers es-tablished mechanisms in order to control the students. The work ...
  • An Ottoman Armenian orphanage :|the short history of Dârüleytâm-ı Osmânî in Adana (1909-1918) 
    Akpınar, Uğur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis examines the history of Dârüleytâm-ı Osmânî institution founded in Adana by Adana Governor Cemal Pasha of the period for Armenian girls and boys who were orphaned due to the Adana massacres of 1909. This ...
  • Homogenization and Turkification practices in Kuzguncuk, Istanbul in the context of the events of 6-7 September 1955 
    Kürküt, Emircan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    Kuzguncuk is a small, popular village in Istanbul near the Bosphorus. According to most official and unofficial written and oral documents, Kuzguncuk was a village of mostly Jews, Greeks, and Armenians rather than Muslim ...
  • Syrian women in Antep :|labor, forced migration and violence 
    Uçar, Canan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis analyzes the intersectionality of labor, forced migration, gender, racism and violence, and how these intersections have an impact on the labor processes of the Syrian women living in suburban neighborhoods of ...

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