Theses in Humanities and Social Sciences - 2010

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences

History

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Ayşe Seren Akyoldaş	Yavuz Selim Karakışla	Instrumentalization of music in the late Ottoman Empire: The case of the Teutonia	M.A.
Anna Maria Aslanoğlu	Evangelos Kechriotis	"Staying away from politics, not foreseeing militarism": The case of corps of Greek scouts in Armistice Istanbul, 1918-1923	M.A.
Ayşe Yasemin Baran	Edhem Eldem	The medicinal use and commodification of leeches in the late Ottoman Empire	M.A.
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı	Michel Kaplan, Nevra Necipoğlu	Martyrs and dervishes as witnesses : The transformation of Byzantine identity in the lands of Rum	Ph.D
Stefo Benlisoy	Selim Deringil	Education in the Turcophone Orthodox Communities of Anatolia during the nineteenth century	Ph.D
Fatma Özyiğit Coşkuner	Selim Deringil	Ottoman official discourse and its reflections during the Crimean War	M.A.
Ali Eroğul	Yavuz Selim Karakışla	Spor Alemi (1919-1929): A Turkish sports magazine in the transition period from The Ottoman Empire to The Turkish Republic	M.A.
Zuhal İbidan	Yücel Terzibaşoğlu	The urban development of Istanbul in the nineteenth century: The role of expropriations	M.A.
Ahmet Kaylı	Derin Terzioğlu	A critical study of Birgivi Mehmed Efendi’s (d.981/1573) works and their dissemination in manuscript form	M.A.
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu	Selçuk Esenbel	Xinjiang between the globes: The Ottomans in the making of modern Xinjiang	M.A.
Saadet Özen	Arzu Öztürkmen	Rethinking the young revolution : Manaki brothers still and moving images	M.A.
Fatmanur Samastı	Meltem Toksöz, Suraiya Faroqhi	History of identification in the Ottoman lands: From the security of the person to the security of the state: Implementation of Mürur Tezkeresi in the nineteenth century	M.A.
Cafer Sarıkaya	Arzu Öztürkmen	Celebrating difference: "Turkish Theatre" in the Chicago World’s Columbian exposition of 1893	M.A.
Onur Şar	Yavuz Selim Karakışla	Alliance Israelite Universelle Schools within the existing school networks in the Ottoman Empire	M.A.
Melis Süloş	Arzu Öztürkmen	Between theatrical politics and political theater: Late Ottoman theatrical spheres	M.A.

Linguistics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Semra Baturay	Markus A. Pöchtrager	Apophony in Turkish onomatopoeic reduplications	M.A.
Eda Esra Bülbül	Mine Nakipoğlu Demiralp, Meltem Kelepir Wood	A computational approach to collectivity and distributivity in Turkish quantificational sentences	Ph.D
Güliz Güneş	Aslı Göksel	Pragmatic and prosodic analysis of sentence topic in Turkish	M.A.
Aslı Gürer	A. Sumru Özsoy	Subject positions, case checking and EPP in complex noun phrase constructions in Turkish	M.A.
Alya Humphrey	Didar Akar	Establishing legitimacy: persuasion and organisational identity	M.A.
Didem İkizoğlu	Didar Akar	Direct reported speech: positioning and relational identity work	M.A.
Yasemin Kesen	Meltem Kelepir-Wood	Intervention effects in simple Wh-questions in Turkish	M.A.
Hasan Mesud Meral	A. Sumru Özsoy	Resumption, A’- chains and implications on clausal architecture	Ph.D
Derya Nuhbalaoğlu	Markus A. Pöchtrager	On the role of empty onsets in Turkish: a government phonology approach	M.A.

Philosophy

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Seçil Aracı	Karanfil Soyhun	An ethical criticism of industrial animal farms	M.A.
Onur Bakır	Chryssi Sidiropoulou	Embodiment of rules in action : primacy of action in late Wittgenstein and Marx	M.A.
Kerem Eksen	Chryssi Sidiropoulou, Catherine Chalier	Tragic error and the Augustinian Morals	Ph.D
Fatma Deniz Kandemir	Stephen Voss	Phenomenology of spirit as the teleological unfolding of consciosness	M.A.
Senem Karagözoğlu	Berna Kılınç	Historical perspective in the sciences	M.A.
Laura Elizabeth Kingston	Murat Baç	The seeming middle ground : concessions of a realist	M.A.
İbrahim Korkmaz	Berna Kılınç	Marx’s economic law of motion	M.A.
Emek Ön	Berna Kılınç	Hilbert's finitism and its limits	M.A.
Banu Berna Sürmen	Karanfil Soyhun	Egg donation: where should market stand?	M.A.
Clinton Marshall Willey	Stephen Voss	The place of Albert Schweitzer in contemporary philosophy and why we should concern ourselves with his ethical thought nonetheless	M.A.
Şirin Yılmaz	Stephen Voss	Plato's Socrates : dialectical method as techne	M.A.

Psychology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Mustafa Taha Bilge	Esra Mungan	Effect of tune repetition on judgments of preference in nontonal music	M.A.
Sinem Özen Canbolat	Ali İ. Tekcan	Childhood amnesia and attachment styles	M.A.
Nur Evirgen	Falih Köksal	The prevalence of emotional eating and its relation to affect regulation in a Turkish sample of obese, overweight and normal weighted women	M.A.
Can Gezgör	Falih Köksal	Exam preparation anxiety in Turkey : a longitudinal study on "2010 Level Determination Exam"	M.A.
Ezgi Kayhan	Nur Yeniçeri	A validation study for the Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory : Behavioral correlates of executive functioning	M.A.
Handan Odaman	Ayşecan Boduroğlu	Effects of self-construal priming on autobiographical memory and attentional processes	M.A.
Zeynep Emine Okur	Feyza Çorapçı	Expression and display rules of basic and self-conscious emotions among Turkish children : role age, gendder, socio economic status and context	M.A.
Nilay Şentürk	Nur Yeniçeri	The validity of the Junior Brixton Spatial Rule Attainment Test in 6- to 8- year-old Turkish children	M.A.
Hande Sungur	Ayşecan Boduroğlu	Examination of the effects of action video game experience on visual representation of objects	M.A.
Anıl Özge Üstünel	Güler Okman Fişek	The construction of masculine self among youth in Turkey	M.A.
Berivan Ece Usta	Ali İ. Tekcan	The interplay between cultural life scripts and life stories across three different age groups	M.A.
Akif Ercihan Yerlioğlu	Feyza Çorapçı	The relation of attachment security with maternal responsiveness and child’s socioemotional competence : using the attachment Q-Set with a Turkish preschool sample	M.A.

Sociology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
İlkay Baliç Ayvaz	Biray Kolluoğlu	The empire's exhibition aand the city's biennial : contemporary implications of world as picture	M.A.
Gülgün Küçükören	Meltem Ahıska	Reconstituting the youth as a political category and neo-liberal reason: The case of Community Volunteers Foundation	M.A.
Ceren Kuşcuoğlu	Ayfer Bartu Candan	Relocation and disempowerment: a critical approach to gecekondu resettlement projects in Turkey through the example of Bezirganbahçe housing project	M.A.
Belkıs Nurten Özkoray	Faruk Birtek	Individualism and democracy in Turkey	M.A.
Sait Öztürk	Nükhet Sirman	Minding the gap between militancy and radicalism the case of Topkapı porters	M.A.
Zeynep Polat Satoğlu	Nükhet Sirman	"Don't let the children wilt away in the streets" reconsidering poverty and philanthropy through the eyes of muslim women in contemporary Turkey : the case of the Ç.S.S., children's welfare project	M.A.
Habibe Şentürk	Abbas Vali	The 1989 migration from Bulgaria to Turkey: nationalism and identity among the migrants	M.A.

Translation and Interpreting Studies 

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Arzu Akbatur	Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar	Writing/translating in/to English: The 'ambivalent' case of Elif Şafak	Ph.D
Yao-Kai Chi	Oğuz Baykara	The Chinese translation of Benim Adım Kırmızı by Orhan Pamuk through English : a comparative stylistic analysis of the two translations and the Turkish source text	M.A.
Burç İdem Dinçel	Jonathan Ross	A critical study of the Turkish translations of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and its interpretations within the Turkish theatrical system	M.A.
Şule Demirkol Ertürk	Saliha Paker	The city and its translators : Istanbul metonymized and refracted in the literary narratives of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and Orhan Pamuk in Turkish, English and French	Ph.D
Fatma İdil	Jonathan Maurice Ross	Translation of heteroglossia : the case of Turkish translations of heteroglot novels by black British women writers	M.A.
Alaz Pesen	Jonathan Ross	Aranjman : rewriting foreign pop songs for the Turkish cultural repertoire	M.A.
İrem Üstünsöz	Şehnaz Tahir-Gürçağlar	The legal status and the self-images of translators in Turkey : translators at the crossroads : experts or messengers?	M.A.

Turkish Language and Literature

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Berat Açıl	Zeynep Sabuncu	Muhyi's Hüsn ü Dil : an allegorical work	Ph.D
Pelin Aslan	Nüket Esen	Fantastic novel : a genre of dubious existence in the shadow of Ottoman/Turkish modernization (1875-1960)	Ph.D
Esra Dicle Başbuğ	Nur Gürani Arslan	The role of the theatre in the construction of state ideology	Ph.D
Bihter Dereli	Zeynep Uysal	Epistolary novel and women writers: Fatma Aliye, Halide Edip Adıvar and Şükûfe Nihal Başar	M.A.
Tuğba Doğan	Nüket Esen	Narratives of loss : Mai ve Siyah, Huzur and Tutunamayanlar	M.A.
Aişe Handan Konar	Günay Kut	Hasan Şu'uri Efendi's translation of Pend-Name-i Attar : text and textual analysis	M.A.
Zeynep Oktay	Zeynep Sabuncu	Kaygusuz Abdal's Mesnevi-i Baba Kaygusuz : critical edition and textual analysis	M.A.
Veysel Öztürk	Halim Kara	The romantic roots of Turkish poetry : romantic subjectivity in Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan's poetry	Ph.D
Betül Sinan Nizam	Günay Kut	Kemal Ahmed Dede''s verse narrative Tercüme-i Menakıb-ı Mevlana (a verse version in The Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn tradition)	Ph.D
F. Betül Telli	Zehra Toksa	Divan by Hasan Rıza	M.A.
Ayfer Ünal	Nur Gürani Arslan	The representation of the disabled in Turkish children's literature (1969-2009)	M.A.

Western Languages and Literatures

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Ayşe Balaman (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Stephen Voss, Işıl Baş	Animated critical theory: Nasrettin Hoca anecdotes as an animation of theories of Marx, Foucault and Simmel	M.A.
Nina Cemiloğlu (English Literature)	Cevza Sevgen	Tracing Bloch's "anticipatory illumination" in Bacon's New Atlantis and Cavendish's The Blazing World	Ph.D
Melis Günekan (English Literature)	Cevza Sevgen	Metamorphosing selves and narrations in The Interrogation and The Magus	M.A.
Hande Yalınateş Bilgen (English Literature)	Işıl Baş	A voice for Eurydice: approaching the Orpheus myth from a feminist perpective	M.A.
Yasemin Yılmaz (English Literature)	Özlem Öğüt	Return to exile : nation and identity in The Mimic Men, Surfacing and Ignorance	M.A.

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Economics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Ekrem Akkaya	Ayşe Mumcu	Erasmus student exchange programme: a placement problem	M.A.
Nazlı Aktakke	Burçay Erus	Labor force participation of women in Turkey: a microeconometric analysis	M.A.
Pınar Ertör Akyazı	Begüm Özkaynak	The Analysis of citizens' preferences for energy investment alternatives in Turkey:Nuclear versus renewable energy	M.A.
Alper Alkan	Levent Yıldıran	Essays on switching costs in the Turkish credit card market	M.A.
Şebnem İleri	Levent Yıldıran	Demand, competition and welfare analysis in the Turkish banking sector	M.A.
Hale Koç	Burak Saltoğlu	Real interest rates and fractional integration : the case of emerging markets	M.A.
Ozan Ekin Kurt	Kamil Kıvanç Karaman	Endogeneity of economic perceptions in Turkish electorate's voting behaviour	M.A.
Gizem Melis Muhtar	Şemsa Özar	Feminization of employment in the Turkish banking sector: A critical analysis	M.A.
İrfan Özdabak	Şemsa Özar	From gecekondu to apartmankondu: economic transformation of the squatter settlers of Rumeli Hisarüstü from 1960 onward	M.A.
Çağrı Savcı	E. Ünal Zenginobuz	Tax policy and informal economy within the context of productive government expenditures	M.A.
Mehmet Emre Tokgöz	E. Ünal Zenginobuz	Assessing tax evasion within an endogenous growth model with productive public expenditure	M.A.
Ahmet Mithat Tunçez	Güzin Gülsün Akın	Essays on consumer behavior in the Turkish credit card market	M.A.
Osman Onur Uyar	Ozan Hatipoğlu	Do Bubbles Spill Over?	M.A.
Taylan Eren Yenilmez	Burak Saltoğlu	A Network analysis of Turkish financial crisis of 2000	M.A.

Management

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Pınar Büyükbalcı	Güven Alpay, Muzaffer Bodur	Analyzing activities of multinational enterprises through foreign direct investment patterns : a value chain based perspective	Ph.D
M. K. Tahir Demircioğlu	Vedat Akgiray	A financial early warning system for financial intermediary institutions by Neural networks	Ph.D
Tutku Eker İçcioğlu	Eser Borak	The impact of company trustworthiness on the success of cause-related marketing programs	Ph.D
Deniz Kantur	Arzu İşeri Say	Understanding firm-level entrepreneurship: a study of exploring the construct and its relationsip with contextual factors	Ph.D
Aysa İpek Küçükosmanoğlu	Attila Odabaşı	Financial performance and productivity : dose foreign ownership matter?	Ph.D
Ceyda Maden	Hayat Kabasakal	Person-environment fit, social exchange relationships, and employee outcomes in organizations	Ph.D
Muhammet Cumhur Selek	Ulaş Akküçük	An exploratory study of beer consumersʹ preferences and consumption characteristics	M.A.
Esra (Sönmezler) Arıkan	Muzaffer Bodur	Drivers of brand extension success and the role of brand relationship quality	Ph.D
Özgür Ahmet Tarakçı	Mine Uğurlu	Firm and industry level factors that affect the growth of SMEs : evidence from Turkey	Ph.D
Emine Eser Telci	Muzaffer Bodur	Mall shopping behavior : an examination of differences in utilitarian versus hedonic shoppers' mall shopping experiences	Ph.D
Kaan Varnalı	Cengiz Yılmaz, Ayşegül Toker	Exploring drivers of success in push-type mobile marketing	Ph.D

Political Science and International Relations

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Suavi Selim Akan	Zeynep Çağlayan Gambetti	The human rights perspectives of two human rights organizations: Mazlum-Der and İHD	M.A.
Oğuz Alyanak	Zeynep Çağlayan Gambetti	The constitutive role of loss in understanding Kemalism and Islamism in contemporary Turkey: A comparative look at Republic Protests and Palestine Demonstrations	M.A.
Talat Balca Arda	Hakan Yılmaz	Politics and arts: The transformation of the Kurdish oppositional music in Turkey	Ph.D
Mustafa Görkem Doğan	Ayşen Candaş	Labor resistance against neoliberal challenges to the traditional trade unionism in Turkey: 1986-1991	M.A.
Emre Çetin Gürer	Zeynep Çağlayan Gambetti	Ethics of the political realm in Hannah Arendt's thought	M.A.
Erdem Kaya	Gün Kut	The Resistance of states system against nonstate violence: International cooperation to preserve state monopoly of force	M.A.
Sibel Ekdemir Kaya	Selcan Kaynak	Gated communities in İstanbul	M.A.
İrem Kök	Zühre Aksoy	Environment is our mother, mining is our father: contesting gold mining in Turkey	M.A.
Azar Musayev	Zühre Aksoy	The National security policy of the Russian Federation: A case for broader security perspective	M.A.

The Faculty of Education

Educational Sciences

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Hüseyin Ala	Fatma Gök	A Case study on the current state of in-service training in a public school based on teachers' and administrators' evaluation	M.A.
T. Eylül Altunay	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Profile of students and the reasons why they prefer private universities in Turkey	M.A.
Dilan Bayındır	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Reasons for student field trips to botanic gardens: A case from Turkey	M.A.
Nevin Kahriman	Özlem Ünlühisarcıklı	Adult educators' views on their occupation and professionalization of adult education	M.A.
Okan Kumbaracı	Zeynep Kızıltepe	Credit card literacy among university students	M.A.
Sevla Serbest	Fatoş Erkman	The influence of university students' perceived paternal and maternal acceptance, father involvement and depressive symptoms on their resiliency	M.A.
Erdal Yanardöner	Zeynep Kızıltepe	The Relationship between learning styles and personality traits of students from Boğaziçi University Faculty of Education	M.A.
Fatma Kantaş Yılmaz	Zeynep Kızıltepe	Comparison of factors affecting the level of job satisfaction of certificated and non-certificated nurses	M.A.

Foreign Language Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Hatice Bilgin	Senem Yıldız	The effects of a learning management system on the achievement of university EFL students	M.A.
Akif Çal	Sibel Tatar	An exploratory study of two EFL teacher's perceptions and application of curriculum principles	M.A.
Filiz Çele	Ayşe Gürel	Processing wh-dependencies in L2 English : the role of L1 and working memory capacity	M.A.
Mehmet Şerif Derince	Ayşe Gürel	The role of first language (Kurdish) development in acquisition of a second language (Turkish) and a third language (English)	M.A.
Burcu Varol	Sumru Akcan	EFL teachers' beliefs and practices on reading strategies and strategy instruction in university level reading classes	M.A.
Sinem Yılmaz	Sumru Akcan	Exploring learner autonomy through The European Language Portfolio (ELP) in Turkish context	M.A.

The School of Applied Disciplines

International Trade 

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Aycan Aytekin	Arzu Tektaş	International supplier selection and order allocation decision: a comparison of a Turkish and an Australian company	M.A.
Duygu Ceylan	Emine Nur Günay	Economy-wide energy efficiency assesment: a cross-Country Comparison Study in Europe	M.A.
Halit Fedai	Emine Nur Günay	The Effects of climate change on agricultural trade capability of Turkey and her major rivals in european food market	M.A.
Hasan Ali Göncü	Emine Nur Özkan Günay	Integrating Turkey’s renewable energy with global carbon market	M.A.
Doğan Levent	Elif Alakavuk	The competitive identity of Istanbul: a city brand management model	M.A.
Özge Öz	Nisan Selekler Gökşen	Impact of general manager characteristics on the export performance of manufacturing companies in Turkey	M.A.
İsmail Yıldırım	Gözde Erhan Ünal	The impacts of R&D expenditures on the manufacturing sectors export performance in Turkey and comparative emering markets	M.A.

Management Information Systems

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Derya Acar	Meltem Özturan	Framework for evaluation of purchasing process in ERP systems in terms of internal control risks	M.A.
Berna Akın	Hande Kımıloğlu	Usage of current mobile marketing services and evaluation of potential future applications	M.A.
İnci Aksoy	Bertan Badur, Sona Mardikyan	Finding hidden patterns of hospital infections on the newborn in Turkey: A data mining approach	M.A.
Sedat Çankaya	Birgül Kutlu	An unsupervised semantic similarity based method for word sense disambiguation	M.A.
Sinan Çayır	A. Nuri Başoğlu	Development of a task information fit model: A study of relationship between task, information and individual performance	M.A.
Ömer Faruk Çevik	Birgül Kutlu	Prediction of IMKB sector indices by using artificial neural networks	M.A.
Volkan Coşgun	Özgür Döğerlioğlu	Critical success factors affecting e-commerce activities of small and medium enterprises in Turkey	M.A.
Neslihan Doğan	Zuhal Tanrıkulu	Analysis and applications of data mining algorithms	M.A.
Emre Dursunluer	Ali Tükel	Private pension decision support system	M.A.
Ebru Polat	A. Nuri Başoğlu	Exploration of mobile service adoption: Special focus on adaptivity	M.A.
Onur Eren Sürgit	Aslı Sencer Erdem	A web-based group decision support system for supplier evaluation and selection	M.A.
Gülşah Yılmaz	Bertan Badur, Sona Mardikyan	Development of a constraint based sequential pattern mining tool	M.A.