Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences

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The impact of banking market structure on SME development: evidence from Türkiye
(2025-08) Ünalan, Alper
This thesis examines the influence of local banking structures on the opening, closing, and performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Türkiye. Specifically, it investigates the roles of state-owned, foreign, and domestic banks in facilitating the creation, growth, and survival of SMEs. The research draws on annual data from 2008 to 2022, combining banking statistics, firm performance indicators, and macroeconomic measures. The findings show that state-owned banks are particularly important in fostering the creation of new SMEs, as they provide favorable financing conditions. They also play a stabilizing role during economic downturns by supporting profitability when private banks may reduce lending. Domestic banks are linked to stronger sales growth, underscoring their role in SME expansion. By contrast, foreign banks have a weaker influence, particularly on profitability, and appear less supportive of smaller, locally oriented firms. These results highlight the crucial role of state-owned and domestic banks in promoting SME development, especially under conditions of economic uncertainty.
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Whose integration? a critical perspective on labor reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 2015 and 2018
(2025-09) Durmisevic, Emina
This dissertation examines mechanisms of supervised sovereignty in Bosnia and Herzegovina's 2015-2018 labor market reforms, investigating how international actors shape domestic policy outcomes while maintaining the appearance of consensual reform. Drawing on decoloniality theory, the study employs discourse analysis of 84 policy documents, social network analysis of coordination architectures, and interviews with 20 labor market experts to analyze how supervised sovereignty operates through discourse legitimation, coordination architecture, and expert intermediation. The research reveals that international and domestic actors deploy complementary legitimation strategies that make externally-driven reforms appear simultaneously scientifically necessary, politically inevitable, and democratically legitimate. Social network analysis exposes structural design flaws in the Reform Agenda's coordination architecture, including excessive centralization and systematic marginalization of implementation actors and constitutionally mandated governance levels. Expert interviews demonstrate how local professionals become institutionally formed subjects whose identities require compliance with international frameworks, creating cycles where structural alienation generates deeper attachment to exclusionary systems rather than resistance. These findings contribute to understanding contemporary international governance by revealing how post-conflict interventions have evolved beyond overt administration toward sophisticated forms of epistemic control that maintain hierarchical relationships while preserving the appearance of partnership. The research challenges conventional explanations that attribute reform failures to insufficient political will or administrative capacity, demonstrating instead how structural design inadequacies reproduce the problems they claim to address while systematically marginalizing locally grounded alternatives to externally imposed development paradigms.
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Enhancing psychological well-being of nursing home residents: incorporating homelike interior design attributes into supportive design theory
(2025-09) Froughisaeid, Negin
The world’s population is rapidly aging, and societies will face a significant rise in the proportion of older adults. While much research on aging emphasizes physical health and safety, fewer studies focus on psychological well-being (PWB). This dissertation introduces a new perspective by examining how supportive design and homelikeness influence the PWB of nursing home residents. It identifies design-related features of Supportive Design Theory (SDT) and homelikeness that positively affect older adults’ experiences, while also investigating which attributes are most valued by residents. In addition, the study evaluates the physical and architectural characteristics of Turkish nursing homes, highlighting strengths and shortcomings, and offers recommendations for designing future facilities that enhance quality of life while reflecting cultural expectations—an area where research remains limited. The study was conducted in two phases. Part 1 assessed seven nursing homes using the Physical and Architectural Features (PAF) checklist. Results indicated strengths in urban accessibility and staff facilities but revealed shortcomings in amenities, social-recreational spaces, and orientation aids. Part 2 examined residents’ perceptions through the Supportive Design Theory and Homelikeness (SDTH) questionnaire in four nursing homes, combined with PWB measures. Findings emphasized privacy and sense of control as the most valued features, while natural elements and personalization showed the strongest correlations with PWB. Overall, the findings extend SDT by showing that homelikeness—through personalization, atmosphere, and culturally resonant design—amplifies its predictive validity. The study concludes that nursing home standards in Türkiye should adopt a two-tiered framework: Ensuring safety and accessibility while embedding homelike, resident-centered features that foster autonomy, comfort, and belonging.
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Why do some civil wars generate more refugee flows than others?
(2025-09) Karban, Özge
Although civil wars are widespread, they produce highly unequal refugee flows. Because displacement reshapes politics and economies in origin, host, and broader regions, understanding what drives volume is essential for effective management. Existing research on conflict-induced forced migration highlights state violence, local insecurity, and social networks in countries of asylum; however, it tends to underplay rebels—the primary belligerents whose behavior structures civilians’ exit choices. This thesis addresses that mid-level gap by centering rebel–public relations. I theorize that three coercive practices—forced recruitment, child recruitment, and forced funding—generate negative rebel reputations that simultaneously signal personal danger, illegitimacy, and organizational desperation. These signals operate as push factors that increase the propensity to flee. To evaluate the argument, I assemble a new dataset by merging sources on refugee movements, rebel reputation, and intrastate conflicts, yielding 206 country–rebel group–year observations from 1980 to 2011. The statistical results do not support the specific hypotheses. Nonetheless, limitations in data availability, coverage, and operationalization—especially sparse reputation measures and coarse temporal aggregation—caution against strong inferences. Rather than disconfirming the theory, the null findings indicate where measurement and design must improve. Substantively, the project clarifies mechanisms linking rebel conduct to displacement and motivates future data collection on coercion, finergrained temporal designs, and models that incorporate interactions with state behavior and local protection networks.
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Media framing of nuclear power plants and its effects on public opinion in Türkiye: an experimental study
(2025-09) Güngör, Muhammed Yasin
Media framing research has demonstrated significant effects on public opinion formation, yet limited attention examines how frame effectiveness varies across domains and individual characteristics within polarized political environments. Türkiye's polarized media system and ongoing nuclear energy development provide an optimal context for investigating these complex framing dynamics. This study examines how different media framings of nuclear energy policy influence Turkish citizens' attitudes and identifies the individual and contextual factors that moderate these effects. The research employed a 2×2×2 factorial experimental design manipulating frame valence (positive vs. negative), frame domain (national security vs. environmental security), and media source political orientation (pro-government vs. opposition). Participants (N = 778) were randomly assigned to experimental conditions and exposed to three news articles reflecting their assigned treatment combination before completing attitude measures. Results demonstrated framing effects. In the full sample, positive frames showed higher government policy support compared to negative frames. Among attention check passers (N = 443), government policy support remained significant and general attitudes reached significance. Domain analysis revealed asymmetry: national security frames produced significant effects across multiple attitude dimensions, while environmental security frames showed minimal impact. Individual differences revealed curvilinear moderation patterns for both media trust and knowledge, with moderate levels creating optimal framing susceptibility. The findings demonstrate that framing effectiveness depends critically on domain content and audience characteristics rather than simple valence manipulation. Results suggest that security-related frames may be more cognitively accessible in Türkiye's geopolitical context, while environmental arguments require more sustained communication efforts.
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Oppressed patron, free client? how can de facto states enjoy a more liberal and democratic regime than their patron states?
(2025-09) Konnai, Miyuki
This dissertation examines how some unrecognized (de facto) states sustain more democratic freedoms than their patron states despite heavy dependence. Using a comparative case study of Northern Cyprus and Abkhazia—client states of Turkey and Russia, respectively—it asks whether de facto states simply conform to patron–client expectations or exhibit meaningful divergence. The study finds that although both cases depend on patrons for economic, diplomatic, and security support, they assert political agency and maintain cultures that diverge from, and even surpass, their patrons in pluralism and civil liberties. Northern Cyprus leverages established institutions, vibrant civil society, and EU links (via Republic of Cyprus citizenship) to preserve pluralistic democracy, while Abkhazia relies on strong community oversight and traditions of avoiding direct state–society confrontation to retain political openness under Russian influence. Moreover, the study extends patron–client theory to de facto statehood by incorporating three key factors: client resilience, patron side restraint, and direct and indirect roles of parent states. By foregrounding triangular interactions among patron, client, and parent, it revisits conventional patron–client relations, specifying when and how asymmetric ties are negotiated, bounded, or rebalanced in contested entities.
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Split signals of credibility: the impact of regime type and polarization on audience costs
(2025-09) Özdemir, Ömer Deniz
International threats vary: some deter, others provoke, with consequences for escalation, bargaining leverage, and leaders’ survival. Audience-cost research links credibility to domestic punishment yet typically collapses regime diversity into a democracy–autocracy binary and sidelines polarization. This thesis addresses both gaps by comparing democracies, anocracies, and autocracies and testing how affective polarization reshapes credibility within each. Theory: regime type sets a baseline for audience costs—high in democracies, low in autocracies, and intermediate in anocracies—while polarization diffuses punishability in democracies (weakening credibility), concentrates it in anocracies (strengthening credibility), and leaves autocracies largely unchanged due to insulation. Design merges MID with COW covariates and V-Dem regime and polarization measures to build a dyadic panel of 1,491 dyad–years (1816–2014) with standard controls (capabilities, contiguity, alliances, trade, GDP, target regime). Logistic regressions evaluate whether targets reciprocate (low perceived credibility) or comply (high perceived credibility) as a proxy for audience-cost likelihood; hypotheses address baseline regime differences and polarization’s moderating effect within regime families. Results in the main models are statistically significant: democracies display higher inferred audience-cost potential than autocracies, anocracies fall between; polarization erodes credibility in democracies, amplifies it in anocracies, and shows no systematic effect in autocracies. Scope conditions include proxy measurement of audience costs, regime coding choices, and polarization indices; these constraints qualify but do not undermine the contribution linking domestic punishability to international threat credibility. Definitions, coding thresholds, and data limitations are stated to maintain transparency and interpretive caution across cases and time.
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Integrated in design, divided in practice: politics of child labor in Türkiye
(2025-09) Başaran, Semanur
Integrated policy strategies appear as an innovative solution for the contemporary policy issues and inherent problems of contemporary public policies. Growing scholarly interest in policy integration reveals the actor-driven and dynamic nature of policy integration. However, this awareness remains limited to the policy formulation stage. Accordingly, a vast amount of research handles policy integration as the end-all to effectively deal with contemporary policy issues at all stages of the policy cycle. Nevertheless, integrated policy strategies are not perfectly immune to the potential challenges of the policy implementation process. The inherent cross-sectoral and multiactor structure, accompanied by varying levels of policy ambiguity, is common for both multi-sector and sectoral public policies. In this context, bridging the two bodies of literature on policy integration and policy implementation becomes particularly promising to analyze policy integration in practice. Therefore, this thesis aims to advance the state of the art by exploring which combinations of product policy ambiguity and policy conflict produces policy integration at the implementation stage following Matland's (1995) model of implementation. This study relies on a comparative case study based on semi-structured interviews from four cities selected from Türkiye with a particular focus on combating child labor in seasonal agriculture. Based on an analysis of the different combinations of different levels of policy ambiguity and policy conflict, this study proposes four worlds of product integration at the implementation stage: experimental, symbolic, political, and administrative. It shows that policy integration in implementation is a different object than in design, which necessitates an analysis of policy implementation rather than policy design. The thesis explores the four worlds of politics of implementation despite uniform policy design in each. In doing so, this thesis introduces a concept of perception of policy ambiguity considering its subjective and context-based characteristics. It also operationalizes both concepts, namely policy ambiguity and policy conflict, through interview data. Finally, it suggests ambiguity-driven sectoral conflict as a new form of sectoral conflict.
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The convergence of development and security in foreign aid: a study of China and Japan in Africa (2001–2021)
(2025-09) Erdil, Dilay
This thesis examines the post-Cold War merger of development and security in foreign aid by analyzing China’s and Japan’s aid strategies in Africa between 2001 and 2021. Guided by the research question, “How have development aid and security merged in the post–Cold War period?”, the study investigates whether the merger pattern, previously identified in the aid strategies of North American and Western European donors, is also reflected in the cases of China and Japan. Employing a case study approach, the analysis draws on official documents from the Forum on China- Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), using policy discourse and policy design indicators of the merger derived from existing scholarship. The findings reveal a consistent pattern: development and security are merged in both policy discourse and policy design in China’s and Japan’s foreign aid strategies in Africa after the Cold War.
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Unmasking anti-gender discourse: its implementation as a tool for polarization in Turkey and Hungary
(2025-09) Öngelen, Mert Kaya
While polarization literature identifies cultural cleavages and grievances as creating political divisions, it has not systematically examined how anti gen der discourse function s as a tool of polarization Drawing on Somer and McCoy’s ( framework of pernicious polarization, I examine how elites deploy anti gender rhetoric as a mechanism to deepen societal divisions. C o mbin ing polarization with theories of securitization and stigmatization I analyze the diversity of tools adopted by political elite The research comparatively analyzes Turkey and Hungary in order to explore similarities and differences. This thesis attempts to fill the gap in the literatu re by bringing a gender perspective to polarization literature by deciphering the rhetoric of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Süleyman Soylu, and Viktor Orbán, three political figures who frame reproductive and sexual rights and gender identity as existential threat s to national identity and family values. Drawing on theories of gender, polarization, securitization, and stigmatization, the study investigates how these leaders’ discursive strategies legitimize exclusionary policies I combine systematic content analys es of speeches through MAXQDA coding with Foucauldian discourse analys i s This dual approach made it possible to identify recurring themes, framing patterns, and the emotional tone embedded within anti gender rhetoric. Two different types of graphs are inc luded for all three leaders in this thesis: word trends and code trends. Findings reveal that Erdoğan, Soylu, and Orbán share a common ideological framework, however, they operationalize anti gender discourse differently. By integrating empirical evidence with theoretical insights, this thesis contributes to understanding the role of gendered narratives in sustaining electoral power and deepening societal divides.
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Digital cues guiding unfamiliar product choices on Turkish e-commerce sites
(2025-09) Karabay, Ayşegül
As e-commerce platforms increasingly shape consumer preferences and decisionmaking processes, this thesis investigates how digital cues influence online shopping behavior and how users interpret these cues. This thesis focuses on two Turkish ecommerce platforms, Trendyol and Hepsiburada, which were examined through scenario-based focus group discussions. This thesis focuses on design features of ecommerce interfaces, such as product information, reviews, and layout, and how users connect these elements to trust, risk perception, and decision-making processes. The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) provides an analytical framework and allows an exploration of how argument quality, personal relevance, responsibility, and prior knowledge shape the processing of persuasive messages through central or peripheral routes. The findings show that participants evaluated products and platforms around trust, uncertainty avoidance, brand value themes. In this way, the thesis demonstrates the impact of digital cues on consumer behavior within the Turkish e-commerce context. It contributes to discussions on how online shopping environments and product presentations can be more transparent, reliable, and user centered.
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Şirketler hukuku bağlamında sürdürülebilirlik kavramı ve anonim şirket yönetim kurulu üyelerinin hukuki sorumluluğu
(2025-09) Coşkun, Pınar Başak
Çağımızın en önemli kavramlarından biri olan “sürdürülebilirlik”, ekonomi, işletme ve çevre bilimlerinin yanı sıra hukuk alanında da etkilerini doğurmaya başlamıştır. Anonim şirketlerin günümüzde devletleri aşan ekonomik güçleri ve sürdürülebilirliğin üç boyutu olan çevre, toplum ve ekonomi üzerinde olumlu ve olumsuz etkide bulunabilme potansiyelleri, şirketler hukukunu da kavramla yakından ilgili hâle getirmiştir. Sürdürülebilirlik kavramı şirketler hukukunda karşılığını özellikle, anonim şirketlerin varlık sebeplerinin pay sahipleri lehine kâr sağlamanın ötesinde, tüm menfaat sahiplerinin çevresel ve toplumsal menfaatlerinin de gözetildiği uzun vadeli değer yaratımı olduğunu ileri süren “kurumsal amaç” kavramı üzerinden bulmuştur. Kurumsal amaç anlayışı, anonim şirket yönetiminde ekonomik menfaatlerin yanı sıra, sürdürülebilirlik ilkeleri ile çevresel ve sosyal menfaatlerin de gözetilmesini gerektirir. Dolayısıyla söz konusu kavramlara ilişkin gelişmeler, anonim şirketin yönetim ve temsil organı olarak yönetim kurulu üyelerinin görev ve sorumluluklarını da yeniden tartışmaya açmıştır. Bu çalışma, anonim şirketlerde sürdürülebilirlik ve kurumsal amaç kavramlarının hukuki yansımalarını, başta özen ve bağlılık yükümlülükleri olmak üzere, yönetim kurulu üyelerinin yükümlülük ve sorumlulukları çerçevesinde incelemektedir. Bu itibarla sürdürülebilirlik ve kurumsal amaç kavramlarını özellikle şirketler hukukunda hukuki bir temele oturtmak ve bunlarla ilişkili kavramları Türk şirketler hukuku literatürüne kazandırmak çalışmanın amaçları arasında yer almaktadır. Araştırmanın temel amacı ise, mevcut hukuk kuralları ile sürdürülebilirliğe ilişkin yeni hukuki düzenlemelerin anonim şirket yönetim kurulu üyelerine pay sahipleri dışındaki menfaat sahiplerinin çıkarlarını ve sürdürülebilirlik ilkelerini gözetme imkân veya yükümlülüğü verip vermediği; sürdürülebilirlik ilkelerine uygun veya aykırı kararların bunların sorumluluklarını doğurup doğurmadığı; bu konuda mevcut düzenlemelerin ötesinde bağlayıcı hukuk kurallarına ihtiyaç olup olmadığı şeklindeki araştırma sorularına yanıt aramaktır.
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Monetary policy and systemic risk
(2025-08) Çam, Utku
This thesis investigates how and through which channels conventional U.S. monetary policy affects systemic risk from February 1990 to February 2020. Systemic risk is measured with a market capitalization-weighted ΔCoVaR framework applied to U.S. Global Systemically Important Banks, directly linked to two emphasized channels: the credit cost channel and the risk-taking channel. The study employs structural vector autoregressions with external instrument identification, using high-frequency monetary policy surprises around FOMC announcements to isolate exogenous policy shocks. This strategy is benchmarked against traditional Cholesky identification across specifications, including industrial production, consumer prices, the federal funds rate, and financial indicators such as the excess bond premium, National Financial Conditions Index Risk, and the CBOE Volatility Index. External instruments perform better than Cholesky, eliminating price puzzles and generating stronger, theoretically consistent responses. A contractionary monetary policy shock reduces systemic risk, with ΔCoVaR falling by 0.12 percentage points on impact and reaching −0.60 percentage points within two months. These effects persist for nearly three quarters. Variance decomposition shows that policy shocks account for up to 39% of systemic risk variation under external instruments, compared to less than 10% under Cholesky identification. Transmission occurs primarily through credit costs and risk-taking. The excess bond premium rises immediately after tightening, reflecting higher funding costs, while NFCIRISK and the VIX increase gradually, capturing broader market risk perceptions. Overall, contractionary policy shifts risk away from systemic exposures toward costlier credit and market risks, lowering interconnectedness while raising borrowing costs.
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Evolving spillovers of U.S. monetary policy to emerging markets
(2025-09) Aktaş, Nida
This study investigates how the spillover effects of U.S. monetary policy tightenings on emerging markets have evolved over time, specifically examining the changes in the magnitude of these effects. The analysis focuses on the tightening periods of 1994, 2004, 2015, and 2022, utilizing a four-variable Bayesian Vector Autoregression (BVAR) model with stochastic volatility. The findings reveal apparent differences in both the magnitude of the impacts and the dominant channels across time and countries. In particular, exchange rate and real economy responses vary depending on each country’s specific periods and structural vulnerabilities. Overall, the results show that the spillover effects of U.S. monetary policy shocks have not weakened uniformly over time; instead, they have differed depending on the nature of the shocks, global financial conditions, and domestic dynamics of the countries.
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İhtiyati tedbir kararları bakımından Türk mahkemelerinin milletlerarası yetkisi
(2025-09) Atasoy Topaca, Hilal
Uzun süren yargılama süreçleri sebebiyle yargılamanın sonu beklendiği takdirde hak sahibinin hakkına ulaşması zorlaşabilmekte veya imkânsız hale gelebilmektedir. Bu durumda hak sahibi, geçici hukuki tedbirlere ihtiyaç duyar. Bu bakımdan geçici hukuki tedbirlerden biri olan ihtiyati tedbir, hukuk güvenliğinin tesisi için büyük önem arz etmektedir. Bu çalışmada, yabancı unsurlu uyuşmazlıklarda ihtiyati tedbir kararları bakımından Türk mahkemelerinin milletlerarası yetkisini incelenmektedir. Çalışma kapsamında özellikle Türk mahkemelerinin esas hakkında yetkisinin olmadığı veya yargılamanın yabancı bir mahkemede görülmekte olduğu durumlarda Türk mahkemelerinden ihtiyati tedbir talep edilememesi sorunu ele alınmaktadır. Ayrıca tahkim yargılamalarında tahkim yerinin Türkiye dışında olduğu ve Milletlerarası Tahkim Kanunun uygulanmasına taraflar veya hakem kurulunca karar verilmediği durumlarda Türk mahkemelerinden ihtiyati tedbir talep edilip edilemeyeceği hususu tartışılmıştır.
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6698 Sayılı Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu ışığında bankacılık sektöründe müşteri verilerinin işlenmesi
(2025-09) Sürmeli, Ebru
Bankacılık sektörü, yapısı gereği kişisel verilerin yoğun şekilde işlendiği ve bu verilerin aynı zamanda sıkı biçimde korunması gereken alanların başında gelmektedir. Müşteri bilgileri, hem kişisel veri hem de müşteri sırrı niteliği taşıyabildiğinden, bu alandaki veri işleme faaliyetleri çok boyutlu hukuki değerlendirmeleri zorunlu kılmaktadır. 6698 sayılı Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu’nun yürürlüğe girmesiyle birlikte, bankaların yalnızca Bankacılık Kanunu’ndan değil, kişisel veri hukukundan doğan yükümlülükleri de somutluk kazanmıştır. Bu tezde, KVKK’nın bankacılık sektöründeki uygulanışı müşteri verileri özelinde ele alınmış; veri işleme süreçleri, hukuki dayanaklar ve bankaların sorumlulukları, ilgili mevzuat ve uygulama örnekleri çerçevesinde değerlendirilmiştir. İlk bölümde, sektörde sıkça karşılaşılan kavramlar açıklığa kavuşturulmuş, kişisel veri ile müşteri sırrı arasındaki kesişim noktalarına yer verilmiştir. Takip eden bölümlerde, bankaların veri işleme bakımından dayanabilecekleri hukuka uygunluk sebepleri, özellikle meşru menfaat, sözleşmenin ifası ve kanuni yükümlülükler kapsamında incelenmiştir. Ayrıca, veri güvenliğini sağlama yükümlülüğü, aydınlatma yükümlülüğü, açık rıza alma süreçleri ve VERBİS kayıt zorunluluğu gibi uygulamaya dönük başlıklar ayrıntılandırılmıştır. Çalışmada son olarak, müşteri verilerinin yurt dışına aktarımı konusu ele alınmış ve güncel hukuki gelişmeler ışığında bu sürece dair riskler ve çözüm yolları tartışılmıştır. Amaç, teorik altyapı ile uygulamayı bir araya getirerek, bankacılık faaliyetlerinin veri koruma hukuku ile uyum içinde yürütülmesine katkı sağlayacak bütünlüklü bir değerlendirme sunmaktır.
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Çerçeve sözleşmeler
(2025-09) Yönet, Yağmur Öykü
Çerçeve sözleşme, tarafların münferit sözleşme ilişkisinin/ilişkilerinin tabi tutulacağı esaslar üzerinde anlaşmalarına olanak sağlayan hukuki enstrümandır. Uygulamada sıklıkla karşılaşılmasına rağmen, Türk Hukuk literatüründe bu kavram üzerinde kapsamlı şekilde çalışılan eserlerin azlığı ve beraberinde getirdiği bazı soruların öğretide cevapsız bırakılması, çerçeve sözleşme kavramının Borçlar Hukuku merkezinde incelenmesi ihtiyacını doğurmuştur. Çalışma üç bölümden oluşmaktadır. Birinci Bölümde ‘Çerçeve Sözleşme Kavramı ve Hukuki Niteliği’ incelenecektir. İkinci Bölümde ‘Çerçeve Sözleşmenin Kurulması ve İçeriği’, nihayet üçüncü ve son bölümde ise ‘Çerçeve Sözleşme ve Münferit Sözleşme Arasındaki İlişki ve Bu İlişkinin Uygulanacak Kurallar Açısından Doğurduğu Sonuçlar’ değerlendirilecektir. Çalışma boyunca Borçlar Hukukunun temel esasları rehber kabul edilmekle birlikte, çerçeve sözleşme kavramının kendine özgü özellikleri de dikkate alınarak öğretide kabul gören yaklaşımların aksine kabuller sunulacaktır.
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Another crisis between the allies: the opium crisis and the arms embargo
(2025-09) Sevim, Ufuk Yılmaz
This thesis historically analyzes the opium issue and the arms embargo in 1975 between the Republic of Turkey and the United States of America through the theory of asymmetric relations. The central focus is American coercion over Turkey on the opium issue, and the arms embargo is not a result of American imperialism, but a consequence of asymmetry in the bilateral relations. This thesis is based on archival primary sources, such as diplomatic correspondence, secondary sources from the existing literature, and a theoretical framework. The main purpose of this thesis is to provide a deeper understanding of the Turkish-American relations and to prevent conceptual ambiguity between imperialism and asymmetric relations. The main argument is that American coercion is not an act of imperialism but an act of the senior partner over the junior partner in an asymmetric relationship.
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Exploring audio-visual perceptions of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in informal learning environments
(2025-09) Şahmaran, Ceren
This study explores the audiovisual perceptions of students in informal learning environments at the I.D. Bilkent University campus, with a particular focus on students diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Using a grounded theory approach, semi-structured interviews (ISO/TS 12913-2:2018 Method C) were conducted to gain in-depth insight into how students experience and interpret their sensory surroundings. A total of 20 participants, which are equally divided between ADHD and non-ADHD students, were selected through convenience sampling. Four informal learning environments on campus were selected based on their diverse acoustic and spatial characteristics, supporting both individual study and social interaction. To complement the qualitative data, structured questionnaires (Method A) and in-situ sound level measurements (LAeq) were also employed to capture perceptual attributes and objective acoustic conditions. The findings indicate that students diagnosed with ADHD evaluated informal learning environments more negatively, describing them as chaotic, annoying, and less calming. In contrast, non-ADHD participants reported greater comfort and satisfaction, particularly in acoustically balanced spaces. Significant perceptual differences between the two groups were observed in specific environments like the dormitory and Faculty of Fine Arts. Moreover, natural sounds were positively correlated with feelings of calmness, while human and technological noises contributed to negative perceptions. These perceptual differences highlight the need for inclusive design strategies that consider neurodiversity in learning environments.
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Deals with the devil: possession and exorcism in jacobean drama
(2025-08) Aras, Melisa Nazlı
This thesis investigates the relationship between Jacobean audiences and Jacobean plays that have dealt with demonic possessions and exorcisms that included earthly gains. The study uses historical and textual analysis by looking at archival records such as real life demoniac and non-demoniac cases, crime cases and documents on and by historical figures and four drama plays, The Witch of Edmonton, King Lear, Ignoramus and The Devil’s Charter. This comparative analysis shows what was on the minds of Jacobean audiences when they watched these plays that have dealt with the demonic possessions