Abstracts of MA/Ph.D. theses completed since 1995

2005

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2005

  DEGREE AUTHOR TITLE

Cognitive Science

M.A. Elif T. Kuş A Temperature-based, Stochastic Model of Mate-choice with Incomplete Information and Evolving Representations

Critical and Cultural Studies

M.A. Engin Kaya The Social construction and change of consumer identity, ideology and 'spectacle': a study of credit card commercials in Turkey from 1989 to 2004 

M.A. Serkan Delice The construction of masculinities in Orientalist discourse: a discussion of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's The Turkish Embassy Letters 

 

M.A. Zeynep Atalay Showcases of nostalgia : presenting historical images for consumption in Rahmi Koç Museum and Miniaturk 

Economics

M.A. İlknur Zer Money demand estimation and currency substitution: evidence from Turkey 

M.A. Uygar Yüzereroğlu A multinomial choice model of bank choice with social interactions 

M.A. Erhan Uluceviz Effects of International Interbank lendings on twin crises

M.A. Zeynep Burcu Songur Growth performance of micro and small enterprises in Turkey

M.A. Selçuk Eren Günay Price discrimination in a network: a model of telecommunications networks

 

M.A. Sahibe Meral Çakıcı Financial liberalization, fiscal prudence, and growth

Educational Sciences

M.A. Ayça Turgut The relationship between bullying tendency, parental acceptance-rejection, and self-concept among seventh grade students 

M.A. Selin Şen The relationship between coping, dimensions of perfectionism, perceived intensity of life events and depressive symptoms in Boğaziçi University students: "a test of cognitive model of depression"

M.A. Filiz Keser A descriptive analysis of decision making processes in Public Education Centers in İstanbul 

M.A. Salih Cıngıllıoğlu Reasons behind dropouts in adult education: a survey with students of private English language course in İstanbul 

M.A. Dilek Çankaya Migrant adults' reasons of non-participation in organized adult education activities 

M.A. Banu Can An analysis of elementary school teachers' causal attributions related to self-identified success and failure

M.A. A. Aylin Buran Music sharing in live performances as an educational process: the case of Fazıl Say 

 

M.A. Beyza Bölükbaşı The impact of family environment, self-concept, and school attitude on 9th grade students' academic achievement 

English Literature

M.A. Özlem Tuna Personal narratives of non-belonging 

M.A. Michael Douglas Sheridan "Thebrain-is wider than the sky-": nature and the sublime American self in emerson and whitman

 

M.A. Pelin Batu Wallace Stevens & Melih Cevdet Anday: the poetics of supreme fiction

Foreign Language Education

M.A. Mustafa Sağlam Portfolio assessment versus traditional assessment techniques: a case study on the proficiency development and classroom practices of EFL students in a Turkish military high school 

 

M.A. Yavuz Akbulut Effects of multimedia annotations on L2 incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension of freshman ELT students 

History

M.A. Yavuz Sezer The perception of traditional Ottoman domestic architecture as a category of historic heritage and a source of inspiration for architectural practice (1909-1931)

Ph.D. Abdulhamit Kırmızı Rules of the provincial empire: Ottoman governors and the administration of provinces, 1895-1908

M.A. Handan Kılınç solating the subject: cholera, control and sanitary discourse in the Istanbul International Sanitary Conference of 1866

M.A. Halil Yaman Dalanay Saints as healers: the medical thought and practices as reflected in Byzantine Saint's lives from the fourth to the eleventh century

M.A. Aslı Emine Çomu The impact of the exchange of populations on the social and economic life of the city of Adana

M.A. Nil Birol Managing the time of the bureaucrat in the late nineteenth century Ottoman central administration 

 

M.A. Ramazan Aras Migration and memory: assyrian identity in Merdin Kerboran/Dargeçit

Linguistics

M.A. Beste Can Yolcu Comprehension of reversible sentences in Turkish agrammatism

M.A. Bilgen Erdem Conversational humor in Turkish peer groups: an interactional sociolinguistic approach 

M.A. Özge Çağlar Interactional dynamics in medical encounters: the participant roles and identities 

 

M.A. Yasemin Bağrıyanık [-AsI] and SPLIT-INFL hypothesis in Turkish 

Management

Ph.D. Ari D. Turman Value creation through intellectual property and innovation: the case of the Turkish manufacturing industry

Ph.D. Ömür Süer The impact of "corporate financing strategies" on "the financial fragility" of Turkish firms listed in ISE in 2001 currency crisis 

Ph.D. İdil Vedia Evcimen (Kurat) Charismatic leadership and follower outcomes: a study of Turkish top management in five provinces

Ph.D. Abdülbahri Danış Integrating small and medium sized firms into e-business for export marketing

 

Ph.D. Cem Bayülgen Banking structure and bank firm affiliation: the case of Turkey

Philosophy

M.A. Latife Demet Yuncu Two approaches to poverty: a comparative study on Amartya Sen's theory of capability deprivation and the framework of socil exclusion

M.A. Ayşegül Sezener Strategies for feminist critique of science: an evaluation

M.A. Tuğrul Özkaracalar Bridging the gap between David Hume's and Immanuel Kant's theories of morality

M.A. Sanem Soyarslan Combining theoria and virtuous activity in the best possible life according to Aristotle

M.A. Mirza Resul Kuzu Nietzche's ambivalence toward Socrates

M.A. Kurtul Gülenç The concept of 'responsibility' in Greek tragedy and Aristotle

M.A. Nazım Gökel The limits of pure ethics in Kant

M.A. Burcu Erciyes Context-sensitivity of knowledge ascriptions

M.A. Erhan Demircioğlu Russellianism, the impossibility of intensional semantics, and belief reports

 

M.A. Özgür Aktok An ontological analysis of the ought: towards an ethics of being

Political Science

M.A. Mustafa Tuzcu Rethinking the place of the National Outlook Movement (Milli Görüş Hareketi) within the Turkish political right: from 1970's to the present 

Ph.D. Pınar Uyan Semerci A search for universalism: reconsidering the capability approach in Turkey 

M.A. Zeynep Özgen Uneasy balance of contested identities: politics of multiculturalism and the case of Hatay 

M.A. Aikaterini Kitidi Positions and oppositions: Greek foreign policy towards Turkey's accession to the EC/EU (1987-2002)

 

M.A. Reşit Berker Enhoş Turkish-Israeli relations evaluated as a strategic cooperation model

Psychology

M.A. Hüseyin Yurtdaş Personal success self construal and in-group favoritism

M.A. Engin Yılmaz Phenomenology of autobiographical memory in blind and sighted individuals

M.A. Aslı Yıkgeç A validity study of the modified checklist for autism in toddlers (M-CHAT) on a Turkish sample

M.A. Merve Yenal The role of status, status relevance, and in-group identification in group-serving attribution

M.A. Cemre Torun Relationship maintenance strategies and marital satisfaction among Turkish couples

M.A. Eda Tan Measuring the speed of information processing in very young children

M.A. Müjde Peker Group cohesiveness as a predictor of false memories and collaborative inhibition

M.A. Ayla Tetik Kabil A validity study of the Checlist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT) on a Turkish sample

M.A. Ceylan Demir Individual correlates of romantic relationships: quality of object relations and psychological mindedness

M.A. Funda Ashaboğlu The relationship of interparental conflict to psychological adjustment

 

M.A. Güneş Avcı The effects of visual imagery on false memory

Sociology

M.A. Kızılca Yürür Sickle cell anemia in Hatay

M.A. Deniz Yonucu From the place of the "dangerous classes" to the place of danger: emergence of new youth subjectivities in Zeytinburnu

M.A. Şerafettin Pektaş The production of knowledge of consumption: the development and organization of market research industry in Turkey

M.A. Cenk Özbay Virilities for rent: navigating masculinity, sexuality, and class in İstanbul

M.A. Enis Köstepen Greenhouses and palaces of Kundu-Antalya: a case of economic territorialization in rural Turkey

 

M.A. Havva Didem Doğan "Walking Istanbul": symbolic construction of the city by tourism

Translation

M.A. Başak Ergil The image of Nazım Hikmet and his poetry in Anglo-American literary systems in 2002 

M.A. Cemal Demircioğlu From discourse to practice: rethinking "Translation" (Terceme) and related practices of text production in the late Ottoman literary tradition

 

M.A. Ayşe Ayhan Translation and the authorial image:reception of Latife Tekin's literary works within the source and target culture(s)

Turkish Laanguage and Literature

M.A. Uğur Gürsu XVI yüzyıla anonim Osmanlı tarihi 

M.A. Adviye Rabia Çipiloğlu Şanizade Ataullah ve Divanı

M.A. Zeliha Çelen Mehmed Zihnî Keşânî'nin 97 Gazeli: inceleme-metin

 

M.A. Berat Açıl Sırrı Rahile Hanım ve Divanı

2004

     
  DEGREE AUTHOR TITLE

Economics

M.A. Can Uz Actual and revealed comparative advantage in OECD agriculture: (1986-2002)

M.A. Ayşe Müjde Sürel An OLG model of production with cash-in-advance constraints

M.A. Elif Onmuş Economic Development and Convergence in Turkey:A Province-Based Assessment with a Special Emphasis on the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP)

 

M.A. Mehmet Oğuz Karahan On properties of return distributions in İstanbul Stock Exchange

Educational Sciences

M.A. Ayfer Topuz Alcohol use among Boğaziçi University students: differences by drinking motive, gender, grade point average, level of academic progress, living arrangement,parental education, participation in social activities and perceived harm of alcohol 

 

M.A. Suna Eryiğit Turkish adolescents' level of psychological adjustment in relation to adolescents' perception of parental psychological maltreatment and physical punishment 

English Literature

M.A. Anthony John Pavlik The cauldron of story: a theory of narrative

Foreign Language Education

Ph.D. Aylin Ünaldı Construct validation of the reading subskills of the Boğaziçi University English Proficiency Test 

M.A. Işıl Erduyan Development of topical structure in college level students' essays : The case of monolingual Turks, monolingual Americans, and bilingual Turks 

 

M.A. İlkay Demirkol Expectations for the roles of cooperating teachers and university supervisors during the practice teaching period as perceived by university supervisors, cooperating teachers and student teachers

History

M.A. Fatma Tunç Yaşar Women in early modern Istanbul: the use of space

M.A. Kerem Ünüvar Economic and moral organization of the Ottoman Society in the Tanzimat Period: Sadık Rifat Paşa's Ahlâk Risalesi

M.A. Hüseyin Özkaya The use of a novel as a source for the study of Turkish-Japanese relations: Shiba Shiro's Kajin no Kigu (Change Meeting with Beautiful Women)

M.A. Anastasia Ileana Moroni O Ergatis, 1908-09: Ottomanism, national economy and modernization in the Ottoman Empire through a Greek-language newspaper of Izmir 

M.A. Haşim Koç Cultural reportoire as a network of translated texts: the new literature after the Tanzimat period (1830- 1870)

M.A. Kerem Kabadayı Capitalist urbanization in Turkey between the 1920s and the early 1990s: an alternative interpretation 

M.A. Cihangir Gündoğdu The anatomy of an assassination: Assassination of Mahmud Şevket Paşa (11 June 1913)

M.A. Ayşe Çıkla Architectural patronage of women in the early Ottoman era

M.A. Ayşe Çavdar Reconstituting Rumeli after 1878

M.A. Konstantina Andrianopoulou Alexander Mavroyeni Bey: From the 19th century reform era to the young Turk revolution through the life and ideology of a neophanariot Ottoman Bureaucrat

Linguistics

M.A. Vahap Atilla Oğuşgil Phonology-syntax interface in Turkish: evidence from binding and scope phenomena

M.A. Hasan Mesud Meral Resumptive pronouns in Turkish

M.A. Mine Güven Adverbials in Turkish: the third parameter in aspectual interpretation 

 

M.A. N. Evra Günhan Verbal and nominal functional categories of a Turkish speaking autistic child 

Managemnet

Ph.D. Mehmet Saraç. Effects of public ownership on corporate performance: empirical evidence from Turkish manufacturing industry

Ph.D. Cenktan Özyıldırım Destabilizing effects of stabilization programs: the case of Turkish Corporate sector

Ph.D. Ceylan Onay Contribution of Turkish stock market to global portfolios

Ph.D. Aslıhan Nasır Development of a framework on ethical issues based on complaint data about electronic commerce

Ph.D. Harun Kaya Internationalization of Turkish manufacturing firms: foreign direct investment outflow

Ph.D. Serdar Karabatı The Influence of individual values on managerial practices: implications for the Turkish Business context

Ph.D. Mehmet Erçek The diffusion and institutionalization of professional personnel/human resources management discourse in Turkey: a narrative appoach

Ph.D. İpek Altınbaşak Ebrem Modeling the constituents of the image of a country for the determination of priorities related to strategic image management: the case of Turkey 

Ph.D. Hakan Aksoy Modelling stock market via fuzzy rule based systems

 

Ph.D. Azize Ebru Akkaya An integrated frame work for marketing in an organizational : the case of Turkey

Philosophy

M.A. Rezzan İlke Yiğit Philosophy as anti-sophistic

M.A. Levent Safalı A comparison of Aristotelian and Cartesian highest human goods

M.A. Elena Natalina Reference to the future

M.A. Vicdan Mutlu Desire for excellence reflections on Plato and Spinoza

M.A. Melis Erdur Constitutive a priori

M.A. Hakan Şükrü Doğruöz Challenging Isaiah Berlin's distinction between negative and positive freedom

 

M.A. Ayça Boylu Surpassing wantonness by appealing to emotions : a Neo-Frankfurtian approach to freedom of the will

Political Science

M.A. Cenk Ünlü An evaluation of European monetary union in its fifth year 

M.A. Pelin Ünsal Turkish political culture Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu and Ankara 

M.A. Arzu Troşala Kosovo problem and options to final status 

M.A. Rashad Shirinov Domestic sources of Russian foreign policy and their impact on Russia's relations with Azerbaijan 

M.A. Ali Sarıkaya Rethinking the peculiarity of Turkish experience with Islamism 

M.A. Caner Sancaktar The Serbo-Croat relations in Yugoslavia 

M.A. Yeşim Pekiner From acceptance to rejection: / Two critical moments of the early history of the Turkish-EEC Relations, 1959 and 1979.

M.A. K. Aslı Erbay Women activism in the former Yugoslav States 

M.A. Müge Ece The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Turkish Foreign Policy 

M.A. Kenan Çayır Islamism and islamic literature in contemporary Turkey: From epic to novel understandings of Islam

M.A. Zeynep Gülşah Çapan The Challenge ahead: situating Europa 

M.A. Aslı Falay Çalkıvik Post-Marxist theories of political action : a critical review of two paradigmatic proposals 

M.A. Yunus Emre Bayrak The European Security and Defense Policy and its implementation in Kosovo and Post September 11

M.A. Gizem Arıkan The decline of the center right parties in Turkey in the 1990s: value change or resentment 

M.A. Ilnour Algouchaev The psychological response of Turkish business persons towards the economic crises of 2000/2001 

 

M.A. Salih Akkanat The conscious of the presentness as a critical attitude towards the progress: Kant, Arendt, Benjamin

Pyschology

M.A. E. Burcu Sancar Development of theory of mind in deaf and hearing children: the effects of communicative experiences

M.A. Pınar Önen The impact of coping strategies, test anxiety and expectancies on the University entrance trial exam scores

M.A. Hande Kılınç Kunt The impact of parental divorce and interparental conflict in intact families on heterosexual functioning of young Turkish women

M.A. Hande Ilgaz Episodic analysis of preschool children's prompt-elicited and direct-elicited narratives

M.A. Friederike Heyndrickx The Role of parenting and family background on Turkish adolescents' academic achievement

M.A. Teri Granti The relationship between metacognitive vocabulary and theory of mind development

M.A. Berna Gerçek Does self-enhancement exist in differently construed selves? A test of the current debate between the process and the content view

M.A. Başak Efe The effects of familial variables and self-esteem on the sexual risk taking behaviors of late adolescent girls in Turkey

 

M.A. Çağla Aydın Autobiographical and flashbulb memories across the lifespan

Sociology

M.A. Hande Sözer Çatom project: field supervisors in between the state and the socia

M.A. Hatice Pınar Şenoğuz Social space, leisure time and changing youth cultures in Boğaziçi University since the 70s

M.A. Umut Sarı Men who desire to conquer: romantic love and masculinity among some young professionals

M.A. Cangül Örnek Tobacco law: transition from state regulation to market regulation

M.A. Jale Karabekir Performance as a strategy for women's liberation: practices of the theatre of the oppressed in Okmeydanı Social Center

M.A. Azra Imamovic Remembering the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The case of Sarajevo Roses

 

M.A. Melissa Bilal The lost lullaby and other stories about being an Armenian in Turkey

Translation

M.A. Melike Yılmaz A translational journey: Orhan Pamuk in english

M.A. Ayşe Özkan Tercüme and individual thought: conflict and consensus over concepts and norms of translation 

M.A. Ayşenaz Koş An analytical study on the migration of Sartrean existentialism into Turkey through translation

 

M.A. Gökçen Ezber Aspects of agency in the case of editor-translators in the 1990s Turkey 

Turkish Language and Literature

M.A. Hilmi Tezgör Soul-body duality in Behçet Necatigil's and Hermann Hesse's poems

M.A. Ayten Sönmez Subjectivity and narrative in Latife Tekin's novels

M.A. Betül Sinan Bali Çelebi ve Divanı (2b-35a): inceleme ve metin

M.A. Veysel Öztürk İlhan Berk'in şiirlerinde anneye dönüş arzusu

M.A. Esra Dicle Haldun Taner'in benzetmeci oyunları üzerine göstergebilimsel bir çözümleme 

 

M.A. Pelin Aslan Hasan Ali Toptaş'ın romanlarındaki "arayış"ın postmodern yüzü

2003

 

DEGREE AUTHOR TITLE

Economics

Ph.D. Yelda Yücel Current account adjustment in Turkey : 1923-2002

M.A. Burcu Yakut Turkish welfare regime in its current transformation

M.A. Selçuk Özyurt Strategy-proof social choice correspondences

M.A. Barış Çevik Implications of software piracy on social welfare

 

M.A. Murat Ataklı Technological growth in a cash in advance economy

Educational Science

M.A. Aslı Burçak Taşören Validity, reliability and preliminary norm study of the wide range assessment of memory and learning (WRAML)

M.A. Sonnur Öztürk Effectiveness of a training group for mothers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 

Ph.D. Cem Kirazoğlu An evaluation of adult literacy campaigns in Turkey

M.A. Fatoş Rengin Kevenk The influence of gender and level of stress on the coping strategies of adolescents 

M.A. Şebnem Gökbörü İmeryüz Family environments of high achieving students: a qualitative study on Bosphorus University students

 

M.A. Lale Gökyiğit Investigation of psychometric properties of the URES-E Turkish form, and the expectations from the university residence environment of incoming Boğaziçi University students 

English Literature

M.A. Serhat Uyurkulak Imagining the Nation: two failed national imaginings in Ulysses and Huzur

M.A. Hande Seçkin Tekdemir Fantastic journeys into language and fiction through the Alice books, The Neverending Story, and Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Ph.D. Nilgün Fırat J.R.R. Tolkien: The scholar as fiction writer

M.A. Turgay Bayındır Erasing the word, effacing the self : problematization of the role of language in the conception of the self in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Woolf's The Waves

 

M.A. Rukiye Aslıhan Aksoy The embowelled brain : the carnivalesque in the works of Jonathan Swift and Flann O'Brien

Foreign Language Education

M.A. Esra Yenici The influence of storytelling on the development and retention of L2 vocabulary in child L2learners

 

M.A. Asım Şakar Exploring the relations among learning styles, annotation use and reading comprehension for foreign language reading in a hypermedia environment

History

M.A. Mehmet Oytun Yılmaz The 1897 Greko-Ottoman war

M.A. Ahmet Yaşar The coffeehouses in early modern İstanbul: public space, sociability and surveillance

M.A. Elif Ünlü Locally produced painted pottery of Tarsus-Gözlükule : the late bronze to iron age transition

M.A. Nurullah Şenol Suicidal tendencies: culture of self-destruction in Ottoman Society

M.A. Önder Kocatürk Poverty and the poor in Victorian Britain

M.A. Mustafa İnce The İstanbul textile guilds in the first half of the nineteenth century

Ph.D. Sema Emel Göksel The ailing imperialists: the Ottoman Empire in British travel literature 1821-1876

M.A. Zeyneb Hale Eroğlu Nation-building in China and Turkey : an analysis of the thought of Sun Yat-sen and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in comparative perspective

M.A. Hatice Babavatan Understanding 'Afrika-yi Osmani' in the late Ottoman period the case of Zanzibar

M.A. Yavuz Aykan Making justice : state, tax-farmers and peasants in the 18th century Ahkam registers of İstanbul 

 

M.A. Mehmet Alagöz Old habits die hard, a reaction to the application of Tanzimat: Bedirhan Bey's revolt

Linguistics

M.A. Eda Esra Bülbül How far is UG accessible for Turkish second language learners with respect to adverb placement in German and English?

Managemnet

Ph.D. Neva Hatiboğlu Yalman Moderators of the relationship between market orientation and business performance : findings from Turkey

Ph.D. Melih Bulu Profiling micro clusters: identification of value-adding production and service chains by using graph theoretical approach

 

Ph.D. Maria Dolares Alvarez Basterra Online and offline information sources in choosing leisure travel: a study of Turkish travelers

Philosophy

M.A. Çiğdem Yazıcı Daemoniac experience in Socrates as limit experience

M.A. Nalan Saraç An analysis of self-deception

M.A. Başak Demet Özonur Skepticism, Its sources and possible solutions: a comparison of Wittgenstein and Quine

M.A. Buket Korkut On the significance of analyticity: a study on the controversy between Carnap and Quine

M.A. Kerem Eksen Human action in Greek tragedies

 

M.A. Madlen Bilginer The role of self-observation in Krishnamurti's understanding of freedom

Political Science

M.A. Ayşe Seda Yüksel Radical democratic pluralism : an alternative 

M.A. Erol Ülker Homogenizing a nation: Turkish national identity and migration-settlement policies of the Turkish Republic (1923-1939)

M.A. Elif Çomoğlu Ülgen Democratic control of the military in the post cold war era: EU policy-Turkish response 

M.A. Altynbek Muraliev Normative international theory and analysis of the conflict management of the United Nations 

M.A. Nazan Maksudyan Gauging Turkishness : antropology as science-fiction in legitimizing racist nationalism (1925-1939)

Ph.D. R. Ebru İlter The "Ethnic Conflict" factor in democratic consolidation 

Ph.D. Serhat Güvenç Rise and demise of a "strategic partnership": in search of context for the post-cold war Turkish-American relations

M.A. Mustafa Begün A comparative analysis of foreign direct investment policies of Turkey and Poland 

 

M.A. Hasan Yönten The integration of Turkish immigrants in Germany and Denmark 

Psychology

M.A. Ceyda Yılmazçetin The relation between father involvement and behavioral problems of preadolescents

M.A. Gülbin Öztürk Tüter The relationship between perceived social support from family and friends, physical health and depression in institutionalized Turkish elderly

M.A. Naci Serhat Türktan The effects and therapeutic factors involved in short-term semi-structured support group intervention for enhancing adjustment of freshman in transition to university

M.A. Şehnaz Tuna Memory bias and feeling-of-knowing (FOK) judgements in obsessive compulsive disorder

M.A. Tuba Sökmen Infants' use of facial information and curvilinear body shape in categorization of animates

M.A. Yeliz Şık Memory and metamemory in the repressors

M.A. Burcu Özdemir (Öğüt) Working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, information processing speed and fluid intelligence relationships in first grade Turkish children

M.A. Burhan Öğüt Mood, mood regulation expectancies, repression, and autobiographical memory

M.A. Aliye Şebnem Gürmeriç The relationship between parenting styles, identity status and disordered eating patterns

M.A. Sabiha Gökçe Güngör Stereotype content and emotions about variaous groubs: a test of structural model

M.A. Gülsün Seda Ercoskun The group serving bias of Turkish football fans in the case of victory and defeat

M.A. Safiye Neslihan Ercan Effects of self-construal, gender, and self-esteem on self-serving bias

M.A. Ceyda Dedeoğlu Neuropsychological, familial and individual variables related to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children

M.A. Alev Çavdar The self-with-sibling representation and the Oedipal themes in The Sibling relationship

M.A. Nuran Aydemir The quality of life of Turkish epilepsy patients with mesial with temporal sclerosis before and after selective amygdalo-hippocampectomy

M.A. A. Aslı Pamir Arıkoğlu Attachment styles and social-emotional adjustment in Turkish college students

Sociology

M.A. Bedirhan Dehmen Appropriations of folk dance at the intersection of the national and the global : Sultans of the Dance

 

M.A. Elif Müyesser Babül Belonging to Imbros: citizenship and sovereignty in the Turkish Republic

Translation

M.A. Yasemin Tuksal Over-interpretation in the translation of cryptic poetry 

 

M.A. İpek Seyalıoğlu Anthologized poetry from English and French in Turkish translation : 1985-1995

Turkish Language and Literature

M.A. Ahmet Hamdi Yıldız Leskofçalı Galip: hayatı, dönemi, sanatı, divanı ve metnin bugünkü Türkçesi

M.A. Yılmaz Top Divan of Şuhi : critical edition-textual analysis

M.A. Akın Tek İhsan Oktay Anar'ın romanlarında üstkurmaca

M.A. Gülşah Taşkın İzmirli Rumi Efendi Divanı : inceleme-metin

M.A. Atanur Memiş Cemal Süreya'nın gözünden kendi şiiri ve İkinci Yeni

M.A. Güler Doğan Ta'ib Mehmed Çelebi ve Divanı

 

M.A. Arzu Atik Celili Divanı (3b-46a)

2002

 

DEGREE AUTHOR TITLE

Economics

M.A. Zümrüt İmamoğlu Inventory behaviour in a cash in advance economy

Educational Sciences

M.A. Evrim Uysal A comparative study of student participation: a case study comparing classroom discussions with webCT bulletin board discussions 

M.A. Ayşegül Somçelik A comparative psycho-social study on the self-concept levels of working and non-working children 

M.A. Alper Şahin The ideological meaning of primary education in Turkish modernization 

M.A. Yelda Kerimol Orçan The Perception of the university residence environment by the Boğaziçi University students

Ph.D. Kamile Hamiloğlu The teacher training policies in Turkey in a changing socio-political context from 1946 to the present day 

M.A. Şükran İlimsever Başarır Family background, parental expectations, school choice and student performance

M.A. Ece Akın Young adolescents selected self reported characteristics and attitudes about themselves and smoking 

M.A. Seçil Akaygün The relationship between mother's explanatory style and child's explanatory style

Foreign Language Education

M.A. Sibel Ergün Possible effects of practicum on student teachers beliefs about teaching 

 

M.A. Aslı Derin Incidental and intentional vocabulary learning of 3rd grade EFL learners: a case in Turkey

History

M.A. Lale Uçan Ottoman Kırklareli and its Hinterland in the 19th century

M.A. Saffet Emre Tonguç The impact of the 1492 mass exodus Jews and the Ottoman social structure

M.A. Müge Serin Seriality as modern form in Turkish Literary history: Ebu'ssüreyya Sami's detective serial Turks' Sherlock Holmes Avni the Merciless

M.A. Mineko Satto British perspectives on Ottoman architecture and design, 1851-1914 

M.A. Özlem Özen The Atik Valide complex in Üsküdar, İstanbul

M.A. Burak Onaran A tarditional district, a conservative image: a history of Üsküdar between 1838-1914

M.A. Müjde Odabaşıoğlu The perception and representation of Islamic art and the emergence of the Islamic department in the Müze-i Humayun (1889-1908)

M.A. Gül Ayşe Öcal Cases of violence in the ottoman empire between 1909 and 1913

M.A. Vildan Nuhoğlu The battle of Sarıkamış: as it was fought- as it was told

M.A. Gülçin (Tunalı) Koç Sadullah el-Ankaravi : Daily concerns of an Ottoman Astrologer

M.A. Yasemin Bozoğlu Erdinç The relationship between the Mevlevi order and the Ottoman State in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

M.A. Çiğdem Coşkun Social history today through the analysis of Hobsbawm's historical writing

M.A. Yusuf Doğan Çetinkaya Economic boycott as a political weapon: the 1908 boycott in the Ottoman Empire

M.A. Mevlüde Bakır Impact and consequences of earthquakes in Byzantine Constantinople and its vicinity, A.D.342-1454

 

M.A. Zeynep Altok Late Ottoman language reformisim: a study on an early phase of the development of turkish as a print language

Linguistics

M.A. Aslı Ciğer Acquisition of complementation in Turkish 

Managemnet

Ph.D. Selim Sidi A survey of empirical tests of the APT and an application on Turkish data

Ph.D. Rüştü Alptekin Sabuncuoğlu Analysis and prediction of bank failures in Turkey "a multivariate logistic approach"

Ph.D. Begümhan Özdinçer An analysis of the value financial information for internet companies

M.A. Abdülmecit Karataş Performance of direct foreign investments in Turkey

Ph.D. Kıvanç V. Ö. İnelmen Trust in buyer-supplier relationships: a small and medium sized enterprises perspective

Ph.D. Hatice Gaye Gencer Ownership structure and performance: a comparison between firms owned by profit oriented groups and firms owned by mission oriented social security foundations

 

Ph.D. Kazım Develioğlu The impact of organizational structure and culture on performance: a comparative study on domestic and JV affiliates of Turkish holding firms

Philosophy

M.A. Alper Türken Carnap's empiricist dogma and ontological relativism

M.A. Hüseyin Fırat Şenol The democracy paradox, and some of its moral and legal implications

M.A. Eylem Özaltun On Hintikka's reconstruction of Kantian intuitions and ecthesis in mathematical reasoning

M.A. Mahmut Özer Marx's ceonception of human nature

Ph.D. Aliye Kovanlıkaya A critical approach to Kant's conception of experience in view of Leibniz's ontology

M.A. Gülberk Koç Bertrand Russell's multiple relation theory of belief

M.A. Cevher, Kadriye Bürkem Functionalist replies to the inverted spectrum argument

 

M.A. Fazilet Akdoğan The rationality debate

Political Science

M.A. Nilay Şafak Enlargement of the European Union : a comparative analysis of Turkey and Poland 

M.A. Yeşim Sezdirmez The Russian-Chechen conflict after the disintegration of the Soviet Union 

M.A. Nikolaos Michailides Approaches to political culture: the cases of Greece and Turkey 

Ph.D. Aslı Daldal A Comparative cultural and socio-political analysis of post-war Italian and Turkish societies in the context of realism in cinema 

M.A. Zeynep Arıkanlı On the possibilities and constrains of new regionalism in the Middle East 

M.A. Esra Alagöz Social movements and pact making in Eastern European transitions to democracy: the case of Poland 

 

M.A. Aydan Alboğa The Turkish-Israeli relationship in the post cold war era 

Psychology

M.A. Ceren Duran Tokdemir Directed forgetting in eating disorders

M.A. Leman Pınar Tosun The effects of culture, gender and self-construal on friendship and intimacy in face to face and computer-mediated environments

M.A. Ebru Şalcıoğlu Long-term psychological consequences of the 1999 Kocaeli earthquake

M.A. S.Adil Sarıbay Individualism-collectivism, self esteem, and alternative indices of self-certainty

M.A. Lale Köse Affect modulation and selfobject experiences in a group of adolescent girls: a narrative analysis

M.A. T. Alper Karslı Antidepressant-like effects of modulating light dark cycle on female wistar rats in the forced swim test

M.A. S. Elçin Hazar The effects of leadership prototypes and perceived leadership styles on leadership outcomes and the effects of self-construals on leadership prototypes

M.A. Berna Güroğlu Prediction of academic achievement in Turkish adolescents from Attachment style and mother's parenting style variables

M.A. Fatma Sevinç Göral The second separation-individuation process of the Turkish young adults 

M.A. Ö. Evren Göneneç Source, message, and audience factors in persuasion:an application of the elaboration likelihood model 

M.A. Ulaş Başar Gezgin The psychological correlates of endowment effect: Individualism-collectivism, perspective taking, and real and hypothetical endowment effects

M.A. E. Selin Demiroğlu False memory in bilinguas

M.A. Arzu Çakar Psychogenic pain: a descriptive study about chronic pain patients' socio-demographic and psychological features

M.A. Meltem Aydoğdu An evaluation study of a basic disaster awareness training program

M.A. Deniz İnan Arslan Dating violence among Turkish University students: prevalence rates and predictors of psychological, physical and sexual violence

M.A. Searp Altekin Assessment of effectiveness of a creative thinking training program

M.A. Shamsi Mehin Akhondzadeh Enhancement of self-esteem in hierarchical relationships

 

M.A. Deniz Yücel The reactions of school-age children to disaster: effects of the 1999 İzmit earthquake assessed by self-rating, parental rating and projective techniques

Sociology

M.A. Bülent Tunga Yılmaz Discourse and narrative in the national cinema movement

M.A. Cem Samurçay Dreaming of liberation: codes of masculinity in some upper middle class literati male texts

 

M.A. Defne Erdur Seeking the truth of sex: narratives of sexuality amongst Boğaziçi University students

Translation

M.A. Barış Emre Alkım Re-creating H.P. Lovecraft's distinctive style in Turkish

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Economics

M.A. Levent Ülkü Individual transferable quotas in the black sea anchovy industry

Ph.D. İpek Özkal Sanver Essays in matching design

Ph.D. Ayça E. Giritligil Kara Public preferences concerning social choice rules : exploratory panel studies

 

Ph.D. Cem Başlevent Essays on female labor supply in Turkey

Educatonal Sciences

M.A. Arzu Yeşilleten Parent education programs in selected private psychological counseling centers in İstanbul 

M.A. Güliz Kurt Validity, reliability and partial norm study of the four subtests of the Woodcock Johnson Psycgo-Educational Battery Revised Test of Cognitive Ability (WJ-R), Namely, Visual Matching (VM), Cross-Out (CO), Visual Closure (VC) and Picture Recognition (PR)

M.A. Aliye Ebru Kublay Children's psychological well-being and mothers' stress and coping styles in an earthquake situation 

M.A. Lütfiye Aslıhan Karay Adolescents' perception of psychological maltreatment living in divorced versus intact families 

M.A. Gülşah Ertekin Transliteral equivalence and reliability of the Turkish version of the Moos University Dormitory Environment Scale 

M.A. Münevver Çelik The status of labour union education in Turkey: theoretical and practical problems of educational programs and possible solutions to these problems 

 

M.A. Aliriza Arenliu Kosovar adolescent smoking experience: Effect of family environment and peer pressure 

English Literature

Ph.D. Ayşe Rana Tekcan In search of the elusive other: the biographer and the subject

M.A. Ayten Şuvak Feminist ethics in Angela Carter's works (nights at the circus and the passion of new eve

M.A. Tuğba Hacaloğlu The representation of postcolonical identity in Meatless Days, Lucy and Our Sister Killjoy

M.A. Vedat Kore Binatlı Concept of time in Ulysses and Watt

Ph.D. Nazmi Ağıl W.H. Auden's speculum: "the sea and the mirror: a commentary on Shakespeare's the tempest"

M.A. Aylin Alkaç Magic realism as a subversive strategy in contemporary third world novel

 

Ph.D. Alban, Gillian M.E Melusine, snake in the garden of Byatt's possession: great goddess dispossessed

Foreign Language Education

M.A. Meral Kara Learning strategies used in the development of two different aspects of foreign language proficiency : 'CALP' in English and 'BICS' in Turkish

M.A. Idylle Fridman Immediate and long-term effects of form-focused instruction in the learning of English relative clauses by Turkish EFL learners : Implications for the levels of embeddedness in RRCs

 

M.A. Ayşe Seza Doğruöz Comparison of communication strategies used by Turkish monolingual and bilingual EFL learners 

History

M.A. Yunus Uğur The Ottoman court records and the making of 'Urban History', with special reference to Mudanya Sicils (1645-1800)

M.A. Nalan Turna Ottoman craft guilds and silk-weaving industry in İstanbul

M.A. Fatma Sel Turhan The abolition of the Janissary army and its reflections

M.A. Seza Sinanlar Atmeydanı as a public square in Ottoman İstanbul 

M.A. Kahraman Şakul Ottoman artillery and warfare in the eighteenth century

M.A. Ayşe Ozil Education in the Greek Orthodox Community of Pera in 19th century İstanbul

M.A. Ayşe Özdemir A history of Turkish archaeology from the nineteenth century to the end of the one-party period

M.A. Miyase Koyuncu he institution of gedik in Ottoman Istanbul, 1750-1850

M.A. Esra Güzel Erdoğan Monastic patronage in Palaiologan Constantinople 

M.A. Şevki Koray Durak Byzantine-Turkish encounter in Western Anatolia in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth Centuries

M.A. Betül İpşirli Argıt Clothing habits and regulations in the Ottoman Empire (1703-1839)

 

M.A. Aslıhan Akışık The Akritai and frontier Ethos in Byzantine and Pre-Ottoman Turkish epic poetry

Linguistics

M.A. Şirin Tufan On word order in Gostivar Turkish

 

M.A. Mehmet Onat Işık Semantic relations among basic verbs 

Management

Ph.D. Alövsat Müslümov The financial analysis of mergers

Ph.D. Hande Bahar Kımıloğlu (Türker) The internet as a marketing environment: consumer perceptions, attitudes and behavior

 

M.A. Ilyas Akbaş Stabilization programmes, effects on the socio-economic life and Turkish experiment 

Philosophy

M.A. Ebru Zeynep Aktürk Muğaloğlu Radical constructivism in science education

M.A. Fahri Ulus Atayurt The theory of Pathos in Stoicism

 

M.A. F. Neren Alpar The problem of 'understanding' in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time

Political Science

M.A. Güneş Tetik Change in the organization of production and labor process : a comparison of two factories in the Turkish automotive industry 

Ph.D. Yüksel Taşkın Intellectuals and the state in Turkey: the case of nationalist conservatism during and after the Cold War 

M.A. Serkan Tanka Protectionism on textiles and clothing : the end or a new beginning?

M.A. Didem Süzer State big business relations in Turkey : the case of TÜSİAD 

Ph.D. Aylin Seker Understanding intervention: an inquiry into ethics and international affairs 

M.A. Selma Sabanovic A divisive history: Serb, Croat and Bosniak nationalism in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina tex