Browsing by Keywords "Syria"
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The Armenian 'relocation': the case for 'military necessity'
(Terazi Yayıncılık, 2014)This article focuses on the questions of insurgency and'military necessity' as a reason for moving the bulk of the Armenianpopulation from the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire in thesecond half of 1915. It looks at ... -
Countering state-supported terrorism : the PKK and Turkish foreign policy towards the Middle East
(Bilkent University, 2003)his thesis analyzes the support provided to the PKK by Syria and Iran, and attempts to determine its impact on Turkish foreign policy towards the Middle East. Some states have adopted supporting terrorist groups as a ... -
A dance of entanglement: the US-Turkish relations in the context of the Syrian conflict
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi(UİK), 2019-06)Alliances under unipolarity operate with different logic than under bipolarity. Unipolarity makes the twin dangers of abandonment and entrapment more likely for the weaker states that need the unipole for the pursuit of ... -
Emigrations from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire : an analysis in the light of the new archival materials
(Bilkent University, 2006)The aim of this study is to describe and evaluate a recently founded special registry book in the Ottoman Archives catalogued as BEO 291/1. The book gives various statistical data about the emigrants who were forced by ... -
Explaining duration of leadership change in Arab uprisings through perceived political opportunity structures : comparing Egypt and Syria
(Bilkent University, 2016-09)Egyptian President Mubarak was forced to leave office after turbulent public protests that lasted eighteen days in 2011. Yet, in the Syrian case, we have currently been witnessing a completely different state of affairs. ... -
Fourty five years of Turkish foreign policy towards Syria : under the shadow of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(Bilkent University, 2005)This thesis analyzes the Turkish-Syrian relations between 1945 and 1990 and examines whether there was an influence of the Soviet Union or not in relations between both states. Although Turkish foreign policy was accepted ... -
A life on top : a survey of stylite saints
(Bilkent University, 2003)This thesis presents the available information about the stylite saints who lived during the Byzantine period within the borders of modern Turkey. Stylites are Christian ascetics who lived on top of columns. There are over ... -
Mustafa Kemal'in Mondros Mütarekesi'ne tepkisi
(Türk İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü, 2010)7.Ordu Komutanı Mustafa Kemal Paşa, 26 Ekim 1918’de Halep kuzeyinde İngiliz ve Arap Ordularının taarruzunu durdurmayı başarmıştır. Ancak, İttifak Devletleri (Bulgaristan, Avusturya-Macaristan-Almanya)’nin mağlup olmalarına ... -
‘We are not barbarians’: gender politics and Turkey’s quest for the West
(SAGE Publications Ltd., 2015-01-14)Turkey’s policy-makers have historically aimed to position Turkey within the West by convincing the latter that Turkey meets the ‘standards’ of the West, that they ‘are not barbarians’. This article aims to offer a gender ... -
When Syrian ‘girls’ meet Turkish ‘boys’: mapping gendered stories of mixed marriages
(Routledge, 2019-02)This article explores the gendered experiences and negotiations of Syrian refugee women throughout forced migration processes and the different strategies during family formation that both Turkish men and Syrian women ...
