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The role of legislative committees in parliamentary governments’ accountability: a comparative analysis of the United Kingdom and Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2018-06)
Present study examines the role of legislative committees in single party majority
and coalition governments’ accountability in the U.K. and Turkey. The literature
discusses both legislatures’ contribution to policymaking ...
Propaganda and persuasion by television during the 1980 coup d'etat in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 1998)
This thesis tries to put a light upon the usage of television as an
efficient tool of political communucation during 1980 military
intervention. In this work, the place of television in Turkish society,
impact on Turkish ...
Turkey and the European Union : other complementary options?
(Bilkent University, 2001-09)
Is Turkey’s perception of membership in the European Union (EU) as an ‘ultimate
goal’ justified? Are there complementary options supporting Turkey’s membership
in the Union? These questions are the focus of the present ...
The European Convention on Human Rights and its impact on the legal systems of the participating states
(Bilkent University, 2001)
This study analyzes the implications of the European Convention of Human Rights on
the domestic governance of the participating states. The European Convention is not a
traditional type of international treaty. It has ...
Westernization, modernization and Turkish-Arab relations during Democrat Party era
(Bilkent University, 2001)
Academic studies on Turkish foreign policy claim that Turkey’s foreign policy
objectives after the transition to a multiparty democracy indicate cleavages with the
mono-party period. According to these studies, while the ...
Religious education as an indicator of state-religion relations within the scope of Europeanization theories : case studies of Turkey and Poland
(Bilkent University, 2013)
This thesis analyzes the impact of Europeanization on the conduct of religious
instruction within the formal education system in Turkey and in Poland. The main
argument is that according to the accounts of the Europeanization ...
Reconsidering hybridity : the selective use of international norms in Turkey’s resolution/peace process
(Bilkent University, 2019-01)
This study examines the diffusion of international peacebuilding norms in the case of
Turkey’s resolution/peace process for solving the Kurdish issue (2009-2015) as a case of
peace process in the absence of top-down ...
International dimension of democratization? the influence of the European Union on the consolidation of democracy in Turkey 1987-2002
(Bilkent University, 2003)
This thesis analyzes the European Union (EU)-Turkey relations with regard to
democracy and human rights and particularly the EU’s impact on the consolidation of
democracy in Turkey.
Democracy in the Turkey has not been ...
U.S. involvement in military coups d'état in Turkey and Pakistan during the cold war : between conspiracy and reality
(Bilkent University, 2016-12)
The external dimension of military coups d’état has hitherto remained an understudied subject in civil-military relations. It has either fallen victim to conspiracies or been entirely sidelined as a non-issue. The objective ...
Citizenship, minorities and immigrants : a comparison of Turkey's Jewish minority and Turkish-Jewish immigrants in Israel
(Bilkent University, 2004)
This study investigated the legal status, identity and civic virtue aspects of citizenship and the interaction between them on the layers of international migration and minority issues with use of a comparative case. A ...