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Theorizing authoritarian party structures : the case of Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2009-11)
The existing studies assume or treat an authoritarian party organization as a static and uniform structure, in which national party leaders dominate the party on the ground. Moreover, the extant explanations of authoritarianism ...
Foreign policy and the construction of modern Turkish citizenship during the national struggle period
(Bilkent University, 2003)
This dissertation is an attempt to present a different historical account of the
construction of modern national citizenship and the politics of inclusion and
exclusion that is the politics of citizenship through a ...
Bülent Ecevit : continuity and change in his political views
(Bilkent University, 2002)
The state elites and secularism with special reference to the military : the case of the 1980 military intervention
(Bilkent University, 2002)
The study aims to analyze the policies and attitudes of the military leaders of the
1980 Intervention towards religion. The state elites in the Ottoman-Turkish history
have been the principal agents behind the secularization ...
The production of space and the construction of urbanity : informal practices in 1930s Ankara
(Bilkent University, 2008)
This study, employing the city space of Ankara as its case, aims at understanding
the production of space and the construction of urbanity through a reconsideration
of the Turkish modernization project. The study focuses ...
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 ...
Prevention of irregular migration
(Bilkent University, 2006)
People have been moving throughout history. These movements may
be either obligatory due to natural disasters, wars and famines or voluntary
such as the movements to find more fertile lands or new jobs. The
movements ...
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 ...
The impact of globalization on national security : the Turkish case
(Bilkent University, 2002)
This thesis analyzes the impact of globalization processes on the understanding and
implementation of National Security in modern states. It is understood that modern
states are in a process of transformation that ...
The peculiarities of Turkish revolutionary ideology in the 1930s : the Ülkü version of Kemalism, 1933-1936
(Bilkent University, 2003)
This dissertation analyzes a specific version of Turkish revolutionary
ideology in the 1930s, the ‹lk¸ version of Kemalism by means of textual
interpretation of ‹lk¸, the official journal of the Peopleís Houses, ...