Theses in Humanities and Social Sciences - 2015

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences

History

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Mehmet Yılmaz  Akbulut	Derin Terzioğlu	The Scramble for Iran: Ottoman Military and Diplomatic Engagements During the Afghan Occupation of Iran, 1772-1729	M.A.
Mahmut Halef  Cevrioğlu	Edhem Eldem	Ottoman Policy Towards Central Europe During the Thirty Years' War: Paul Strassburg’s Embassy to Constantinople	M.A.
Şirin Güneşer  Erzurum	Yavuz Selim  Karakışla	Greek Occupation of İzmir and Protest Meetings in İstanbul: 15 May 1919 - 13 January 1920	M.A.
Selvihan Kurt	Ahmet Ersoy	The founding of the İzmir Museum: a preliminary narrative based on Aziz Ogan’s archive	M.A.
Ezgi Burcu Işıl	Yücel Terzibaşoğlu	A critical review of marxist historiography on transitions: antiquity, feudalism, capitalism	M.A
Ahmet Tahir Nur	Derin Terzioğlu	Politics in a sixteenth-century Ottoman scholar’s worldview: Taşköprizade Ahmed’s (d. 968/1561) discourse on rulership	M.A
Gamze Yavuzer	Derin Terzioğlu	Istanbul wine-taverns as public places in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries	M.A
Seriyye Akan	Meltem Toksöz	A tanzimat intellectual: Sadık Rıfat Paşa’s economic thoughts	M.A
Günsel, Gürel	Ahmet Ersoy	Into the wild: Ottoman photographic excursions to Libya at the turn of the twentieth century	M.A
Damla Özakay	Derin Terzioğlu	Discourses on writing in the early modern Ottoman biographical dictionaries of calligraphers	M.A
Burcu Özkaçar	Yücel Terzibaşoğlu	Reading modernity in India: the practice of widow-burning in the light of nineteenth and twentieth century debates	M.A
Ömer Faruk Köse	Derin Terzioğlu	The fatwa collection of an Ottoman provincial mufti, Vani Mehmed Efendi (d. 1685)	M.A

Linguistics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Betül Erbaşı	Aslı Göksel, Eser E. Taylan	Inflected Doubled Verbs in Turkish	M.A.
Aslı Gürer	Aslı Göksel	Semantic, Prosodic and Syntactic Marking of Information Structural Units in Turkish	Ph.D
Emre  Hakgüder	Aslı Göksel, Meltem Kelepir  Wood	Complex Clauses with Embedded Constituent Interrogatives in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)	M.A.
Nil Tonyalı	Balkız Öztürk Başaran	Non-Structural Datives in Turkish	M.A.
Ayşe Büşra  Yakut	Meltem Kelepir Wood	Contrastive Değil Constructions in Turkish: A Large Conjunct and PF-Deletion Analysis	M.A.
Feyza Balakbabalar	Balkız Öztürk Başaran	Turkish change of state verbs in the inchoative-causative alternation	M.A
Seda Akpınar	Mine Nakipoğlu	Processing genitive-possessive long distance dependencies in Turkish	M.A

Philosophy

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Nazım Adaklı	Murat Baç	Conceptual and Factual Relativity and Realism: A Theory of Absolutism Regarding Microphysical Facts and Concepts	M.A.
İlter Çoşkun	Chryssi  Sindiropoulou	Musical Paideia in Plato's Republic	M.A.
Gökhan Doğru	İlhan  İnan	The emergence of inostensible reference	M.A.
Doğan Can  Kazaklı	Nurbay Irmak	Fundamental Quantification and the Ontology Room	M.A.
Ayşe Büşra  Sertalp	Lucas Thorpe	Is Language a Prerequisite for Belief? An Alternative Approach on False-Belief Understanding and Meta-Representation	M.A
Sean Tracy	Lucas Thorpe	Reconciling Comprehensive Liberalism and Islam	M.A.
Tuğba Sevinç  Yüksel	Lucas Thorpe	Reconsidering Rawls: Justice and Solidarity	Ph.D
Beste Yamalıoğlu	Yıldız Silier	The human soul, free will and determinism under capitalism through Cronenberg’s films	M.A
Başak Doğan	LucaTorphe	Musical experience: musical process, emotion and meaning	M.A
Yener Çağla Çimendereli	İrem Kurtsal Steen	Justifying oneself as a foundation of morality	M.A
Nezihe Müge  Kuyumcuoğlu Tütüncüoğlu	Steven Voss	A philosophical interpretation of the unconscious in light of Wilfrid Sellars’ reasons – causes dichotomy	M.A
Arzu Gökmen	Stephen Voss	Transcendental apperception and knowing that i am	M.A
Matthew Jernberg	İrem Kurtsal Steen	Drawing the mark of the normative	M.A
Özge Kelekçi	Yıldız Silier	The Disclosure of petrified unrest: The Gezi protests from the perspective of Jean-Luc Nancy and Walter Benjamin	M.A

Psychology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Cihan Züleyha Aydın Özdemir	İ. Ercan Alp	A Measure of Conflict Inhibition in Toddlers: The Animal Vehicle Task	M.A.
Aylin Deniz Ülkümen	Serra Müderrisoğlu	A Changing Sense of Self in the Context of Coercive Control	M.A.
Naziye Güneş Açar	Ercan Alp	Gesture and language use in toddlers: the role of verbal and non-verbal working memory in language development and gesture production process	M.A
Onurcan Yılmaz	Adil Sarıbay	An investigation of the reciprocal relationship between cognitive style and political ideology	M.A

Sociology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Yusuf  Kutlu	Nükhet  Sirman	Living Waste: Making a Life in Wasted Spaces	M.A.
Hale  Şaşmaz	Barış  Büyükokutan	A Comparative Study on the Reputational Trajectories of Turkish Women Intellectuals from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic	M.A.
Osman Özarslan	Zafer Yenal	Masculinities at night in the provinces	M.A

Translation and Interpreting Studies

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Harika Karavin	Özlem Berk Albachten	Translating Humor: A Comparative Analysis of Three Translations of Three Men in a Boat	M.A.
Cansu Canseven	Arzu Akbatur	Looking through translation: the importation of Chick lit in Turkey via translations and/or rewritings	M.A
Semih Sarıgül	Martin Cyr Hicks	The institutional translator's image in Turkey: a comparative analysis from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Republic	M.A
Seçil Töre	Jonathan Maurice Ross	Translation and ideology: a study of paratexts of Turkish translations of the Kurdish Mesnevi Mem û Zin in the Republican period	M.A

Turkish Language and Literature

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Fatma  Akdemir	Nüket Esen	From Hayal ve Hakikat to Enin: the literary life of Fatma Aliye	M.A.
Duygu  Ergun	Zeynep Uysal	The eye of singularity: toward an ethics of encounter in Halid Ziya’s novel Kırık Hayatlar	M.A.
Özcan  Kaya	Erol Köroğlu	Atatürk poems and anthologies of Atatürk poems: genre, content, imagery	M.A.
Murat  Narcı	Olcay Akyıldız	The split in Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca’s poetry: wandering into the valley of Çocuk ve Allah	M.A.
Sevgin  Özer	Nur Gürani  Arslan	Representing social order on the stage: an analysis of Şemsettin Sâmi’s plays within the framework of literary genres and themes	M.A.
Muhammet Ali  Demir	Zehra Toska	The scent of the beloved’s hair in Divan poetry	M.A

Western Languages and Literatures

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Hardy Griffin	Matthew Gumbert	Humanist Humor: Aziz Nesin’s Yaşar Ne Yaşar Ne Yaşamaz and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five	Ph.D
Lamia Kabal (English Literature)	Özlem Görey,  Cevza Sevgen	The Moral and Political Worlds of Macbeth	M.A.
Aysun Kan (English Literature)	Aslı Tekinay	Violence and Sexuality in In-Yer-Face Drama: Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love, Mark Ravenhill's Some Explicit Polaroids, and Anthony Neilson's Penetrator	M.A.
Merve Kansız (English Literature)	Aslı Tekinay	Narrative Voice in Feminist Drama: A Study of Adrienne Kennedy, Caryl Churchill and Sarah Kane	M.A.
İpek Kotan (English Literature)	Kim Fortuny	Descending Into Us From We Know Not Whence: Marilynne Robinson and the Emersonian Tradition	M.A.
Hülya Yağcıoğlu (English Literature)	Özlem Öğüt,  Matthew  Gumpert	The “Innocence” of Objects: Commodification, Collecting and Fetishism in The Age of Innocence and The Museum of Innocence	Ph.D
Ömer Faruk Peksöz (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Işıl Baş	Formations of the body: Talal Asad and the secular	M.A
Mürüvet Esra Yıldırım (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Işıl Baş	Another way is possible: looking at women‟s lives through the filter of divorce	M.A
Mediha Pınar Sorma  (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Didar Akar	Fragile identities: prostitutes as signifiers of patriarchy and heteronormativity in Turkey	M.A
Utku Ali Yıldırım (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Didar Akar	Fans by proxy: cross-cultural media fandom in Turkey	M.A

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Economics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Suat Akbulut	Murat Yılmaz	A Dynamic Model of Mixed Duopolistic Competition: Open Source vs. Proprietary Innovation	M.A.
Mustafa Metin Başbay	Orhan Torul	Empirical Essays on the Informal Economy	M.A.
Gökçen Cangüven	Mehmet Yiğit  Gürdal	Risk Sharing Rules and Investment in Groups	M.A.
Sezgin Daşdöğen	Güzin Gülsün  Akın	Household Indebtedness and Financial Literacy in Turkey	M.A.
İbrahim  Emirahmetoğlu	Mehmet Yiğit  Gürdal	A Horse Race among Models of Strategic Thinking across Similar Games	M.A.
Nebahat Ferda Ertürk	Ceyhun Elgin	Two Essays on Informality	M.A.
Ahmet Altınok	Murat Yılmaz	Dynamic voluntary contribution under time-inconsistency	M.A
Barış Güven	Yahya Mete Madra	The Parisian Regulation Approach: capitalism as a panoply of crisis tendencies	M.A
Alp Güven Buğra Akyüz	Ali Ozan Hatipoğlu	A comparative study of bubble components	M.A
Ahmet Cem Peker	Murat Yılmaz	The Impact of Charity Effort and Transparency on Price Elasticity of Charitable Giving	M.A.
Can Sever	Tolga Umut  Kuzubaş	Systemic Risk and Heterogeneous Leverage in Banking Networks: Implications for Banking Regulation	M.A.

Management

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Çiğdem Asarkaya	Hayat  Kabasakal	Psychological Empowerment: Antecedents, Correlates and Consequences	Ph.D
Ezgi Merdin	Özlem Hesapçı, Zeynep  Gürhan-Canlı	Self-Concept Related Explanations for Social Experiential Happiness Settings	Ph.D
Bülent Tekçe	Neslihan Yılmaz	What Factors Affect Behavioral Biases?: Evidence From Individual Turkish Stock Investors	Ph.D
Gözem  Güçeri  Uçar	Stefan Koch	Innovation Attributes and Service Brand Equity in the Context of Information Technology Innovations	Ph.D
Mehmet Selami Algur	Hüseyin Sami Karaca	The effects of valence and perceived brand globalness on trust in eWOM and on eWOM’s influence	M.A
Nigar Çağla Mutlucan	Özlem Öz	Competitive advantage and clusters: evidence from textile, wearing apparel, carpet, automotive, tourism, and furniture clusters in Turkey	Ph.D

Political Science and International Relations

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Tamer Coşar	Zeynep  Kadirbeyoğlu	The Impact of Social Trust on Attitude Towards the Welfare State: The Case of Turkey	M.A.
Defne Kadıoğlu Polat	Hakan Yılmaz	Migrants and the City: Gentrification, Ethnicity and Class in a Berlin Neighborhood	Ph.D
Zeynep Özge Iğdır	Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu	The politics of everyday life: solidarity-based organization and squatting in an Istanbul neighborhood	M.A
Seren Selvin Korkmaz	Mine Eder	The politics of everyday life in Malatya: class, identity and space	M.A
Hande Gökşin Uğur	Mine Eder	The institution of work-dorms in Turkey	M.A
Nadire Pınar Genç	Gün Kut	Humanitarian intervention realist concerns of liberal aims: a comparative study of Somalia and Rwanda	M.A

The Faculty of Education

Educational Sciences

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Kadriye  Dimici	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Leadership of department heads in higher education and their professionalization as leaders	M.A.
Sabri Ergül	Fatma Nevra Seggie	The role of religious dormitories and houses in adult education: a case study	M.A
Onur Seçkin	Özlem  Ünlühisarcıklı	Lifelong Learning Policy Making Process in Turkey: The Lifelong Learning Coordination Law	Ph.D
Betül Betina  Yolak	Zeynep Kızıltepe	The Impact of Istanbul Beykoz Municipality "Culture, Arts and Education Courses" on Students' Lives	M.A.
Betül Tanacıoğlu	Sibel Akmethmet Şenerler	A single case study of family resilience after parental death	M.A
Tümay Algan Ferrara	Hande Sart	Voices of children at workplaces: children’s perspectives on their lives at school and work	M.A
Salih Cıngıllıoğlu	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Adult education in social movements: the case of the Gülen movement	Ph.D

Foreign Language Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Derya Altınmakas (English Language Education)	Yasemin Bayyurt	Dynamic Interaction of Factors Influencing University Students’ Academic Writing Practices in English: A Case Study in Turkey	Ph.D
Esra Bener (English Language Education)	Senem Yıldız	The use of blog activities to promote reflection in an ELT practicum	M.A.
Sevdeğer Çeçen Besimoğlu (English Language Education)	Naciye Gülcan Erçetin	Interrelationships Among L2 Linguistic Knowledge, Working Memory Functions, and L2 Learning	Ph.D
Pınar Ersin (English Language Education)	Yasemin Bayyurt,  Gayle Nelson	A Case Study of a Turkish English Learner in an EFL Setting: Investment, Imagined Community, and Identity	Ph.D
Çağla Nikbay (English Language Education)	Sumru Akcan	An Exploratory Study of the Progressive ‘-ing’ in a Turkish Academic Context From an ELF Perspective	M.A.
Didem Tuğçe Erdem (English  Language Education)	Naciye Gülcan  Erçetin	Comparing L2 Learners' Strategy Use in Literal vs. Inferential Reading: A Cognitive Validity Study Through Eye-Tracking	M.A.
Beyza Sümer Karadallı (English Language Education)	Belma Haznedar	Scene-Setting and Referant Introduction in Turkish and Turkish Sign Language (Türk İşaret Dili, TİD): What Does Modality Tell Us?	M.A.
Ecehan Sönmez (English Language Education)	Belma Haznedar	An investigation of spelling skills in Turkish: the role of phonological encoding and rapid naming in the literacy skills of third and fourth graders	M.A
Yavuz Kurt (English Language Education)	Gülcan Erçetin	Development of a reading test for second language learners of Turkish	M.A
Talip Güllü (English Language Education)	Gülcan Erçetin	Development of a speaking test for second language learners of Turkish	M.A
Beyza Sümer Karadallı	Belma Haznedar	Scene-setting and referent introduction in Turkish and Turkish sign language (Türk İşaret Dili, TİD): What does modality tell us	M.A

 

Primary Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Birce Başol	Engin Ader	The relationship among metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive calibration accuracy and mathematical problem solving performance	M.A.
Mehmet Eren	Serkan Özel	A Collective Case Study to Understand The Whys and Wherefores of Not Using Technology in Mathematics Education	M.A.
Seçil İnanlı	Ayşegül  Metindoğan	Preschool-aged Children's Media Use and Its Relationship With Their Prosocial and Aggressive Behavior	M.A.
Aysun Sülün  Taş	Serkan Özel	The effect of mathematics online review sessions through a webcast system on fifth-grade students’ mathematics achievement	M.A

The School of Applied Disciplines

International Trade 

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Ömer Faruk Tan	Gözde Erhan Ünal	A Comparative Study on Mutual Fund Performances of Emerging Markets in the Era of Quantitative Easing	M.A.
Ahmet Onur  Yıldız	Aslı Deniz  Helvacıoğlu	International Competitiveness of the Turkish Film Industry	M.A.
Burak Can Bayram	Aslı  Deniz Helvacıoğlu	Challenges of the EU emission trading scheme: the carbon fat cats case and prospects for Turkey	M.A
Ekaterina Chiklyaukova	Aslı Deniz Helvacıoğlu	Achieving growth through social innovation: a beyond GDP trial. Case studies of Turkey and Russia	M.A
Anıl Tabakan	Mehtap Işık	Effects of information and communication technologies on international trade: a panel data analysis	M.A

Tourism Administration

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Ayşenur Gökçetin	Kıvanç İnelmen	The Role of NGOs in Sustainable Tourism in Turkey	M.A.

Management Information Systems

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Aycan Turan	Bilgin Metin	A decision support system for inventory management of information technology spare parts	M.A.