Theses in Humanities and Social Sciences - 2006

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences

History

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Tuna Artun	Nevra  Necipoğlu	The regestes of the medieval acts of the Vazelon Monastery: the codex E of the Timios Prodromos on mount Vazelon as a source for the social, economic and institutional history od rural Matzouka from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century	M.A.
Ayşe Bozkurt	Meltem  Toksöz	The issue of education in Late Ottoman women's periodicals (1869-1895)	Ph.D
Ebubekir Ceylan	Selim Deringil	Ottoman centralization and modernization in the province of Baghdad, 1831-1872	M.A.
Fatma Betül  Cihan	Edhem Eldem	The image of western women in Ahmed Midhat's discourse on westernization	M.A.
Ebru Soytemel  Salgut	Yavuz Selim  Karakışla	Labour and occupation during the early republican era: Meslek magazine 1924-1925	M.A.
Yaşar Ozan Say	Vangelis  Kechriotis	The Balkan Muhacirs of Akköy: memory and identity in a western Anatolian village	M.A.
Ebru Sönmez	Derin Terzioğlu	An Acem statesman in the Ottoman court: İdris-i Bidlîsî and the making of the Ottoman policy on Iran	M.A.
Konstantinos  Thanasakis	Derin Terzioğlu	The Ottoman geographer Osman B. Abdülmennan and his vision of the world in Tecrüme-i Kitab-ı Coğrafya (ca. 1749-1750)	M.A.

Linguistics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Ercan Balcı	Ann Denwood	A government phonology analysis of Turkish consonants	Ph.D
M.Cem Çakır	Aslı Göksel	On stress, types of extrametricality and the phonological structure of the extrametrical syllable in turkish simplex words	M.A.
Emrah Görgülü	A. Sumru Özsoy	Variable wh-words in Turkish	M.A.
Zekiye Ceyda Arslan Kechriotis	A. Sumru Özsoy	Case as an uninterpretable feature	Ph.D
B. Dilara Koçbaş	Didar Akar	Expository writing in Turkish: a rhetorical approach to coherence and cohesion	M.A.
İlknur Oded	Balkız Öztürk	Control in Turkish	M.A.
Fatma Aslı Üntak Tarhan	Meltem Kelepir	Topics in syntax-phonology interface in Turkish: sentential stress and phases	M.A.
Süleyman Ulutaş	A. Sumru Özsoy	Verb movement and feature percolation: evidence from Turkish	M.A.

Philosophy

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Vildan Atalay	Stephen Voss	The genealogy of Nietzsche an attack on the traditional ways of thinking	M.A.
Fulya Özlem Daşhan	Murat Baç	Liberal culturalism and the individual: an alternative account of cultural identities	M.A.
Memduh Er	Sun Demirli	The theory of time as relations	M.A.
Itır Erhart	Stephen Voss	What am I? A non-psychological answer to a fundamental question	Ph.D
Cavit Hacıhamdioğlu	Gürol Irzık	Popper and Hayek on the principle of unintended consequences	M.A.
Cem Şişkolar	Stephen Voss	Inferentialism and indeterminacy at home	M.A.
Uluğ R. Sungur	Gürol Irzık	Carnap's conventionalism	M.A.

Psychology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
S. Arzu Akkum Batmaz	Falih Köksal	Different learning environments for preschool children in Turkish private and public preschools: mind versus virtue	M.A.
Dilek Büyükselçuk	Bilge Ataca	Self-efficacy in relation to self-construals and causal attributions	M.A.
Sibel Halfon	Güler Fişek	Attachment in a cultural framework	M.A.
İdil Ayça Karaca	Ali Tekcan	Source monitoring in autobiographical recall: a complementary approach to reminiscence bump accounts	M.A.
Elif Tunç Özcan	Reşit Canbeyli	The Effects of short light pulse at ZT21 on behavioral despair in old and young male wistar rats	M.A.
Pınar Pezük	Reşit Canbeyli	Effect of BNST lesions on behavioral despair and navigational learning in female wistar rats	M.A.
Nihan Sefer	Güler Fişek	Paternal representations in late adolescence	M.A.
Ayça Orer Tokuzlu	Ali Tekcan	Beliefs of legal professionals about eyewitness testimony and identification	M.A.
Deniz Yılmaz	Nuran Hortaçsu	Blame attribution and information processing	M.A.
İlknur Yılmaz	Falih Köksal	The Determinants of depression and anxiety in Turkish infertility patients: social support, sex role orientation, infertility causality, and selesteem	M.A.

Sociology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Hilal Alkan	Nüket Sirman	Intimate governing: public space, community and women in Keçiören	M.A.
Sündüz Şule Bakırcan	Meltem Ahıska	Becoming individuals or the endless discovery: the reconstruction of feminine subjectivities through depression narratives in Turkey	M.A.
Yalın Emek Çelik	Biray Kolluoğlu Kırlı	Towards a national imagination: the script reform of 1928 in Turkey	M.A.
Berna Ekal	Nüket Sirman	Through differences commonalities: women's experiences of being Alevi	M.A.
Murat Es	Ayfer Bartu Candan	Alevist politics of place and the construction of cemevis in Turkey	M.A.
Rahime Arzu Ünal	Ferhunde Özbay	Transformations in transit: reconstitution of gender identity among Moldovan domestic workers in Istanbul households	M.A.
Erdem Yörük	Çağlar Keyder	Social relations of production within the workshop system in Istanbul's apparel industry	M.A.
Sezai Ozan Zeybek	Meltem Ahıska	Human enterprise of global capitalism and the golden collars: producing the producer	M.A.

Translation and Interpreting Studies 

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Fatma Cihan Dansuk	İsmail Kaplan	(Un)Bridging the GAP: The case of translations from Yugoslav literature into Turkish (1962-2001)	M.A.

Turkish Language and Literature

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Canan Çamcı	Nüket Esen	Detective novels of Ahmet Mithat	M.A.
Murat Umut İnan	Günay Kut	Edirneli Güfti Ali ve Şah u Derviş mesnevisi	M.A.
Seher Özkök	Nüket Esen	A language and content oriented analysis concerning the stories of Sevim Burak	M.A.

Western Languages and Literatures

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Nadir Öperli (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Meltem Ahıska, Işıl Baş	"The Entel" representations of a degenerated intellectual figure in cartoon strips	M.A.

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Economics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Ayça Bilir	Burçay Erus	The effect of the private sector on geographic distribution of public sector physicians in Turkey, 1990-2000	M.A.
Burcu Ciğerli	Emre Alper	Fundamentals, credit ratings and global indicators: what determines Turkish sovereign spreads?	M.A.
Gözde Şener	Ayşe Buğra	Classification of welfare regimes using cluster analysis: where does Turkey stand?	M.A.
Didem Tüzemen	Fikret Adaman	Network effects in risk sharing and credit market access: evidence from Istanbul	M.A.
Burak Ünveren	E. Ünal Zenginobuz	On the existence of equilibrium in a two-class economy with production	M.A.

Management

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Gurur Altun	Nesrin Okay	The causes and predictors of the 2001 Turkish crisis	Ph.D
Çetin Ali Dönmez	Vedat Akgiray	Time series analysis of IMKB-30 equity market index returns and the effect of volume and volatility on returns	Ph.D
Uğur Gökhan Özdinç	Muzaffer Bodur	The antecedents and consequences of relationship quality in financial services	Ph.D
Kadri Özgüneş	Metin Ercan	IPO performances of VC-backed & non-backed companies: a cross country comparison of Germany & the UK	Ph.D
Ali Tükel	Özer Ertuna	Foreign investors' role in a stock market boom and bust cycle: Turkey's experience in 1999-2001	Ph.D
Gözde Erhan Ünal	Vedat Akgiray	Extreme value approach in analyzing stock returns in Istanbul Stock Exchange	Ph.D

Political Science and International Relations

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
İsmet Akça	Taha Parla	Militarism, capitalism and the State: putting the military in its place in Turkey	Ph.D
Hatice Selen Akçalı	Hakan Yılmaz	The emergence of a new type of NGO: think-firms. A study of the ARI and ESI (European Stability Initiative) movements in the context of Turkey's integration to the EU	M.A.
Sude Bahar Beltan	Yeşim Arat	Citizenship and identity in Turkey: the case of the post-1980 Turkish-muslim immigrants from Macedonia	M.A.
Sema Binay	Zeynep Gambetti	Coming to terms with the past: narrating the 12 September 1980 military coup	M.A.
Alper Bilgili	Murat Akan	The re-organization of the main islamic communities in Turkey, in the post 1980 coup era	M.A.
Fazilet Çavdar	Mine Eder	The role of the IMF in the Turkish financial crisis of 2000-2001: a comparison with the Mexican crisis of 1997	M.A.
Demir Chavynchak	Gül Sosay	Vicious cycle in the Russo-Japanese territorial dispute	M.A.
Betül Demirkaya	Yeşim Arat	Civil society and democracy: the case of a migrant association	M.A.
Sinan Dinçer	Ayşen Bilgen Candaş	The revolution of 1908 and the working class in Turkey	M.A.
Yasemin İpek	Zeynep Gambetti	Volunteers or governors? Rethinking civil society in Turkey beyond the problematic of democratization: the case of TEGV	M.A.
Tülay Ayalp Kılıçdağı	Hakan Yılmaz	Small business associations in Turkey: relations with big business and the state since the 1980s	M.A.
Süheyla Nil Moustafa	Zeynep Ç. Gambetti	Re-articulation of the sign of Turkish National identity through the discursive performances of the Arab "other": the case of Arabs in Batman	M.A.
Ömer Murat	Koray Çalışkan	The role of the Egyptian military as an economic actor in business	M.A.
Esin Saraç	Mine Eder	Political economy of agricultural protectionism in the EU and US	M.A.
Evren Yalaz	Yeşim Arat	The teachers of the republic: mediating between state and students	M.A.

The Faculty of Education

Educational Sciences

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Yusuf Alpaydın	Fatma Gök	Contribution of municipalities to adult education: İSMEK case	M.A.
Gökçe Bulgan	Aydan Gülerce	A psychological comparison of people's perceptions of their own families and their presumptions of the "typical" Turkish family	M.A.
Duygun Göktürk	Fatma Gök	Analysis of the National Education Councils during the single-party era in Turkey	M.A.
Ramazan Güngör	Özlem Ünlühisarcıklı	Adaptation of the education participation scale (EPS) for participants in level II literacy courses	M.A.
Simge Kırcan	Fatoş Erkman	The Relationship between peer presure, internal versus external locus of control and adolescent substance use	M.A.
Deniz Ortaçtepe	Ayşe Akyel	The relationship between teacher efficacy and professional development within the scope of an in-service teacher education program	M.A.
Seçil Özbeklik	Ayşe Caner	Women's marital quality and mothering quality: determinants and interrelations	M.A.
Özlem Pehlivaner	Aki Virtanen	Perceptions of Erasmus students about European identity	M.A.
Melisa Sayar	Hande Sart	A Longitudinal study of the relationship between perceived social support and psychological well-being of adolescents from low socioeconomic status	M.A.
Semra Yıldırım	Fatoş Erkman	Validity, reliability, and partial norm study of the Turkish teacher's acceptance-rejection/control questionnaire child short form	M.A.

Foreign Language Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Nur Eser Altun	Senem Yıldız	Effects of different types of tasks on junior ELT students’ use of communication strategies in computer-mediated communication	M.A.
Fatma Anğ	Gülcan Erçetin	Effectiveness of corpus consultation through concordancing on the formulaic academic language use of freshman ELT students	M.A.
Neslihan Aslan	Ayşe Akyel	The relative contributions to foreign language reading comprehension of the selected individual-difference variables	M.A.
Hüseyin Can	Yasemin Bayyurt	An analysis of freshman year university students' argumentative essays	M.A.
Vasfiye Geçkin	Belma Haznedar	The acquisition of morphosyntax in child L2 English evidence from Turkish learners	M.A.
Zeynep Banu Koçoğlu	Ayşe Akyel, Gülcan Erçetin	The role of portfolios in EFL student teachers' professional development: a case study	Ph.D
Derya Kulavuz	Sibel Tatar	Exploring burnout and participation in professional learning activities among university prep Turkish EFL instructors	M.A.
Ayşe Eser Başyurt Tüzel	Sumru Akcan	Raising the language awareness of pre-service language teachers during their practice teaching experience: a case study in an EFL setting	M.A.
Devrim Yılmaz	Yasemin Bayyurt	Students' opinions of the role of 'culture' in learning English as a foreign language	M.A.
Gülsen Yılmaz	Ayşe Gürel	L2 acquisition of the English article system by Turkish learners	M.A.

The School of Applied Disciplines

Management Information Systems

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Gülçin Buruncuk	Bertan Badur	Data mining for customer segmentation and profiling: a case study for a fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) company	M.A.
Burak Gedikoğlu	Aslı Erdem	A decision support system for workforce management in call centers	M.A.
Zarife Gonca Gülser	Bertan Badur	A framework for integrating knowledge management and decision support systems by using knowledge discovery techniques: a case study forecasting financial time series	M.A.
Onur Kerimoğlu	A. Nuri Başoğlu	Organizational adoption of enterprise resource planning systems	M.A.
Ünsal Haakan Nikbay	Hande B. Kımıloğlu	Consumer behavior in electronic retailing and the critical success factors affecting consumer preferences and loyalty	M.A.
A. Ürün Sancar	Aslı Erdem	A simulation based decision support system for supply chain management	M.A.
Yaşar Özge Sağıroğlu	Meltem Özturan	Implementation difficulties of hospital information systems: a case study in a private hospital in Turkey	M.A.
Ecehan Sofuoğlu	A. Nuri Basoglu	Feature analysis of an information systems product development: the case of e-mail systems	M.A.
İlda Tanoğlu	A. Nuri Başoğlu	Information technology diffusion and managerial decision making	M.A.
Eray Uluhan	Bertan Badur	WEB mining issues: topic finding and focused crawling evaluation	M.A.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

Cognitive Science

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Robert Ian Bowers	Stephen Voss, Pınar Yolum	Fake sex: diploidy, dominance, coupling, attraction	M.A.
Hakan Ünlü	Reşit Canbeyli	A visual search task to evaluate top-down and bottom-up control of the pre-attentive stage and the ACT-R/PM vision module	M.A.