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Migration regime and “language part of work”: Experiences of Syrian refugees as surplus population in the Turkish labor market
(Sage, 2020-10)The literature on migration, language and employment is dominated by the human capital approach and promotes multilingualism as a universal good. This paper examines the relationship between language and work for migrants ... -
Militant minority at work: a successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-02)This article explores a successful unionisation struggle among garment workers in Istanbul. In the last four decades, Turkey has become a global showcase of authoritarian anti-labour neoliberalism and one of the world’s ... -
Mobile emergency rule in Turkey: legal repression of protests during authoritarian transformation
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-05-17)One of the challenges of autocratizing governments in regimes with nominally democratic institutions is how to repress fundamental democratic rights while claiming to uphold the rule of law. Post-9/11 socio-legal debates ... -
Mobilization follies in international relations: A multimethod exploration of why some decision makers fail to avoid war when public mobilization as a bargaining tool fails
(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, Ihsan Dogramaci Peace Foundation, 2019-07)This paper is intended to serve as a show and tell model for graduate students. Sections in parentheses and italics provide a running commentary by the author on the decisions taken throughout the paper. The goal is to ... -
Moral pluralism on the trolley tracks: different normative principles are used for different reasons in justifying moral judgments
(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2017-05)The psychological correlates of utilitarian choices in sacrificial moral dilemmas are contentious. In the literature, some research (Greene, et al., 2001) suggested that utilitarianism requires analytic thinking while other ... -
“More Alike than Different”: a qualitative exploration of the relational experiences of multicultural couples in Turkey
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)In this study, multicultural couples’ experience of the impact of culture on their romantic relationships was explored. The sample included eight heterosexual couples cohabiting or married for at least 6 months, and who ... -
More than a sovereign symbol? The public reception of the early monumental statues of Atatürk in Turkey
(Wiley, 2021-10)The early monumental statues of Ataturk in Turkey have so far been studied from the perspective of the state and its ambition to disseminate a national consciousness. While this state-centric approach has been helpful to ... -
Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-12)How people communicate about motion events and how this is shaped by language typology are mostly studied with a focus on linguistic encoding in speech. Yet, human communication typically involves an interactional exchange ... -
‘Names will never hurt us’: A qualitative exploration of çapulcu identity through the eyes of Gezi Park protesters
(Wiley, 2019-07)While there is a wealth of literature on how and why people engage in collective action, there has been comparably less focus on the way identities that have emerged (as compared to how they are consolidated or politicized) ... -
Narrative identity and positive youth development in Turkish emerging adults: The moderating role of cultural self-construals
(Sage, 2023-11)The current study examined the associations between narrative coherence, the 5Cs of positive youth development, and cultural self-construals among 91 Turkish emerging adults (48 females, 42 males, and 1 other) aged between ... -
Netice-I sa’y ve kayınvalide: Şehrin emek coğrafyası
(Istanbul University, 2021)The author Mehmet Tahir, an officer in the editorial office of the accounting section of the Customs Office, followed Ahmet Midhat's recommendation to discuss economics in fiction in order to promote commerce and ... -
New approaches and challenges in Ottoman historical writing
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(Non-)deport to discipline: The daily life of Afghans in Turkey
(Oxford University Press, 2023-10-31)This study contributes to discussions on the politics of (non-)deportability by focusing on the case of Afghans, the largest migrant community without a right to protection in Turkey, itself the country hosting the most ... -
Not so "traditional" anymore? generational shifts on schwartz values in Turkey
(Sage, 2017)We compare generational change in culturally related personal values as represented by the Schwartz values taxonomy, across two decades of individuals representing independent samples of the urban, Turkish workforce, ... -
"Old oxen cannot plow": Stereotype themes of older adults in Turkish folklore
(Oxford Publishing, 2015)Purpose of the Study: Although much research has established the nature of attitudes and stereotypes toward older adults, there are conflicting explanations for the root cause of ageism, including the sociocultural view ... -
One size doesn't fit all: toward a theory on the intersectional salience of ageism at work
(Sage, 2015)Much of the research on the effects of age in the workplace has ignored the role of contextual factors, and the intersection of multiple group identities. In seeking to address these shortcomings, we provide a theoretical ... -
One too many categories: an experimental test on the effectiveness of a dual-identity recategorization intervention on age-based bias
(Elsevier, 2014-12)A laboratory experiment was conducted on a convenient sample of N = 724 introductory Psychology students from the southeastern United States, to test the effectiveness of a dual identity recategorization intervention when ... -
Ottoman market regulation and inspection in the early modern period
(Koç Üniversitesi Suna & İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (AKMED), 2021)This article looks at Ottoman market regulation policies and practices, by highlighting some turning points in their evolution in the early modern period. The task of the Ottoman market inspector evolved to focus largely ... -
The overall odds ratio as an intuitive effect size index for multiple logistic regression: examination of further refinements
(Sage, 2012-12)This study used Monte Carlo simulation to examine the properties of the overall odds ratio (OOR), which was recently introduced as an index for overall effect size in multiple logistic regression. It was found that the OOR ...
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