Bogazici University Digital Archive: Recent submissions

  • Educating citizens for “Sexual Manners” : politics of sexuality between 1945-1965 in Turkey 
    Yurttagüler, Laden. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2022., 2022)
    This study aims to examine the discourse on "sexual manners" that has become visible in the public sphere in Turkey between 1945 and 1965, a period marked by political, economic, and social changes. On the one hand, ...
  • Representation of Beyoğlu in short story writing of the 1940s generation in Turkey 
    Çankaya, Ercan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2022., 2022)
    This study focuses on the representation of Beyoğlu in short stories written between the end of the 1930s and the beginning of the 1950s by nine authors who were accepted as the representatives of the 1940s generation. ...
  • Conservative women in contemporary Turkish politics : mobilization, party politics and voting 
    Kourou, Nur Sinem. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2022., 2022)
    This dissertation examines women's political participation process (a.k.a political feminization) in the case of Turkey's AKP. Therefore, it is built on a puzzle between the number of women in the party and the party's ...
  • The transformations of the regime of intimate violence in Turkey 
    Kosukoğlu, Nazife. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2022., 2022)
    When and how do regimes of intimate violence change? What lies behind the changes in legal norms and rules concerning the regulation of male violence? How do legislators, jurists, and scholars affect the flows of law ...
  • Metropolitics : the political economy of Istanbul’s rail infrastructure 
    Kanzık, Alp. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2022., 2022)
    This dissertation narrates the historical trajectory of Istanbul’s urban rail infrastructure to trace the transformation of state-business relations and urban politics under late Turkish capitalism. Urban rail transit ...
  • Poor enlighteners : pedagogy, politics, and elementary school teachers in the early republican era 
    Ertürk Asar, Esin. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2022., 2022)
    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 ...
  • High resolution microseismicity and nearly - repeating events in the Marmara Sea 
    Başarır, Nilay. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, 2022., 2022)
    The Main Marmara Fault beneath the Marmara Sea has a prominent seismic gap that can produce a devastating earthquake and a serious risk for the surroundings. It is important to scrutinize the seismic activity in region ...
  • Seismic interactions and related faulting revealed by moderate to large earthquakes in the SE Aegean region 
    Eskiköy, Figen. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, 2022., 2022)
    Southern Aegean and Western Turkey are mainly dominated by significant exten sional regime and crustal thinning. Segmented normal faults and horst graben systems with varying orientations characterize the region. In these ...
  • Interseismic behavior along the North Anatolian fault in the Marmara region using 3D structure 
    Yılmaz, Zeynep. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, 2022., 2022)
    A series of earthquakes occurred along the North Anatolian Fault (NAF) during the 20th century, primarily migrating from east to west. The only part of the NAF that has not broken is under the Marmara Sea. The Main Marmara ...
  • Evolution of earthquake hazards in İzmir response to M4+ earthquakes 
    Yılmaz, Tolunay. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, 2022., 2022)
    In this study, we investigated the evolution of earthquake hazards in İzmir (Turkey), the city accommodating the third highest population in Turkey in response to M4+ size earthquakes analyzing Coulomb stress change on ...
  • Constraining source properties of the 1509, 1766 and 1894 Istanbul earthquakes 
    Yenihayat, Nesrin. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University.Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, 2022., 2022)
    In this thesis, stochastic simulations were performed for the 10 September 1509, 22 May 1766, and 10 July 1894 Istanbul earthquakes to constrain their source parame ters with a detailed characterisation and classification ...
  • Time - dependent seismic hazard assessment for the north and east Anatolian faults 
    Koca, Cem. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, 2022., 2022)
    Until now, many probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) studies have been performed for Turkey. However, except in a limited number of cases, character istic fault source modeling was not used. Since the North and ...
  • Epistemic uncertainty in the analytically derived fragility functions : multiple stripe analysis versus cloud analysis 
    Önder, Zeynep Eda. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, 2022., 2022)
    This study aims to examine the effects of epistemic uncertainty arising from dif ferent analysis approaches on the derived fragility functions. To this end, fragility functions are developed by using two different methods ...
  • Effects of site improvement technique on seismic performance of geotechnical structures 
    Demirtaş, Bilge Sultan. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, 2022., 2022)
    Earth-retaining structures are widely used in the man-made environment and compose the significant constituents of infrastructural systems worldwide. Besides, they have been constructed broadly in seismically active ...
  • Numerical modelling of ground motions in Eskişehir basın 
    Akpunar, Lütfü İhsan. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, 2022., 2022)
    Eskişehir basin is located at the boundary of central and western Anatolia tectonic regions. Between two active faults it extends in EW direction with two open ends. So far deep velocity structure of the basin has not been ...
  • Consumer attitudes toward video ads; impact of information quality, information source and brand favorability 
    Elmas, Yavuz Selim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Digital video advertising is undoubtedly a part of consumers’ digital journeys. Thus, it is worth to study how consumer’s digital experience is affected. With regard to that, this study employed an adopted Information ...
  • Malevolent-children in modern Turkish short story 
    Abanoz, Süheyla. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    “Evil” is considered to be an equivalent word for “virtueless” that is a meaningful form in society and defined by the words "bad, wicked, awful" etc. When this lack of virtue, which is often brought up by the humanities, ...
  • The formation and evolution of the Image of the Turks in Byzantine historiography 
    Tirali, Ali. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This study explores the representation of the Turks in middle and late Byzantine historiography. It features a corpus covering the 11th to the 15th centuries, comprising the works of Attaleiates, Skylitzes, Anna Komnene, ...
  • Isfahan and Istanbul in the early seventeenth century : Masjed-e Shah and Sultan Ahmed complexes 
    Gürkan Anar, Damla. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This dissertation investigates the urban, architectural, and ceremonial formations of the Sultan Ahmed and Masjed-e Shah complexes, erected in early seventeenth century Istanbul and Isfahan by rival monarchs, Ahmed I ...
  • Ahmet Rıfat Efendi's Mirâtü’l-Mekâsid : the possibility of a Sunni Bektaşiyye in the nineteenth century 
    Kiper, Metin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis focuses on the work Mir’âtü'l-Mekâsid fî Def'i'l Mefâsid, which was written by a Bektaşi intellectual, Ahmet Rıfat Efendi in 1875. Although the Bektaşi order left its mark on the Ottoman Empire and had a ...