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Theses in Humanities and Social Sciences - 2019

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences

History

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Melisa Korkmaz	Edhem Eldem	Martha Jane Dalzel Riggs: An American missionary wife in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire	M.A
Ayşe Başaran	Derin Terzioğlu	The Ottoman printing enterprise : legalization, agency and networks, 1831-1863	Ph.D
Zeynep Küçükceran	Yücel Terzibaşoğlu, Zühre Aksoy Terzibaşoğlu	Agriculture and agricultural knowledge in Bursa and Mihaliç (Karacabey) in the nineteenth century	Ph.D
Merve Savaş	Nevra Necipoğlu	People and politics in eleventh-century Constantinople, 1025–1081	M.A
Özlem Kinaş	Nevra Necipoğlu	The depiction of natural disasters in middle Byzantine histories (867-1204)	M.A
Agustin Rafael Avila	Nevra Necipoğlu	The exhortations of George Trapezuntios and Cardinal Bessarion against the Ottomans : Identities and representations	M.A
Bilal Adıgüzel	Nevra Necipoğlu	The Byzantine perception of India in late antique literary sources	M.A
Demet Yıldız	Arzu Öztürkmen	Belonging in a marginalized neighborhood : a historical ethnography of Istanbul’s Okmeydanı	M.A
Sait Kutay Şen	Aslı Özyar	Text and image in dialogue : revisiting Iron age neo-Hittite stelae	M.A
Ayşe Sena Gürlek	Yücel Terzibaşoğlu	Agrarian change in Bosnia under Habsburg rule : 1878 - 1914	M.A
Erkan Oruçoğlu	Arzu Öztürkmen	Boys in court : questioning child abuse cases between 1860 and 1865	M.A
Muzaffer Suna Kafadar	Ahmet Ersoy	Yedikule lettuce as urban legend : environmental imaginary of Istanbul in the early twentieth century	M.A
Naide Gedikli Goralı	Çiğdem Kafescioğlu	Spatial and socio-cultural changes in Eyüp between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries	M.A
Mustafa İşçier	Ahmet A. Ersoy	Remember every time, not just once : historical geography and social memory in Turkey and Armenia	M.A
Turhan Ozan Yıldız	Çiğdem Kafescioğlu	Ilyas Arabi's Risale-yi Istanbul : perceptions of architecture and legend through a sixteenth-century Ottoman text	M.A
Mustafa Akay	Edhem Eldem	Shifting Narratives of Universal Histories in the Ottoman Empire: From the "Divine" to the "Scientific"	M.A
Onur Atay	Ahmet A. Ersoy	The Visibility of Late Ottoman Rulers: The Ideological Transition of Urban Representation in Southern Arab Provinces	M.A
Işık Gürgen	Oya Pancaroğlu	Palace Architecture and Its Rhetoric in Seljuk Anatolia: The Conceptualization of Kubadabad	M.A

Linguistics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/ Ph.D
Aysel Kapan	Aslı Göksel	Derivational networks of nouns and adjectives in Turkish	M.A
Reyhan Lütfiye Okumuş	Balkız Öztürk Başaran	Aspect and thematic suffixes in Şavşat Georgian	M.A
Ali Yağız Şen	Aslı Göksel	Idiomaticity, formulaicity and semi-fixed constructions in Turkish	M.A
Audrey Lynn Richardson	Aslı Göksel, Pavel Logacev	Developing a talking dictionary for a morphologically complex language: The case of Laz	M.A
Müge Gedik	Balkız Öztürk Başaran	Denominal verbs in Turkish	M.A
Hande Sevgi	Kadir Gökgöz	Effects of age of acquisition on morphosyntactic structures in Turkish Sign Language : Evidence from classifiers	M.A
Özlem Ergelen	Kadir Gökgöz	The syntax of information structure in Turkish nominal phrases	M.A
Burcu Saral	Meltem Kelepir	The universal quantifier 'All’ in Turkish sign language	M.A
Noyan Dokudan	Pavel Logacev	The role of heuristics in sentence processing in Turkish	M.A
Melike Hendek	Mine Nakipoğlu	How Turkish-speaking children tackle negation when it combines with modality and (non)factivity in complex sentences	M.A
Can Özbey	Didar Akar	A corpus analysis of multiple negation in Turkish	M.A
Songül Gündoğdu Yücel	Balkız Öztürk Başaran, Sumru Özsoy	Argument-adjunct distinction in Kurmanji Kurdish	Ph.D
Uğurcan Vurgun	Sumru Özsoy	The syntax of focus particles in Turkish	M.A

Philosophy

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Adil Alibaş	Nurbay Irmak	Identity, quantification and sortals	Ph.D
Gizem Tığlı	Stephen Voss	A philosophical inquiry into Nasreddin Hodja stories	M.A
Can Özer	Chryssi Sidiropoulou	Therapeutic philosophy: Advantages and limitations	M.A
Aran Arslan	Stephen Voss, İlhan İnan	A critique of Hintikka’s reconstruction of Kantian intuition in logical and mathematical reasoning	M.A
İrem Günhan Altıparmak	Chryssi Sidiropoulou, Halit İlhan İnan	The role and significance of curiosity in philosophy for children	M.A
Göksu Dayan	Nurbay Irmak	On ordinary objects	M.A
Neva Çöğendez	Sun Demirli	Trope theory and resemblance	M.A
Ahmed Halil Oğuzhan Gül	Chryssi Sidiropoulou, Nazif Muhtaroğlu	Leibniz’s criticism of occasionalism and a response through a reconstruction of Al-Ghazālī’s and Malebranche’s arguments	M.A
Duygu Aktaş	Nurbay Irmak	Digital artifacts as abstract objects : an ontological comparison to musical works	M.A
Tuğba Baykal	Yıldız Silier	A debate on the constitution of subject in feminist theory and politics	M.A
Sanghun Han	Stephen Voss	Mental causation is not counterfactual: A defense of the exclusion argument against counterfactual solutions	M.A
Enes Güran	Lucas Torphe	The Republicanism of Philip Pettit in Times of Crisis	M.A

Psychology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Bilge Gençoğlu	Feyza Çorapçı	The role of reappraisal and suppression in the relationship between maternal warmth and adolescents’ self-esteem	M.A
Birge Birgin	Falih Köksal	The effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy in reducing performance anxiety in elite Turkish athletes	M.A
Muhammed Dorukhan Açıl	Serra Müderrisoğlu, Güler Okman Fişek	Transference in the school context : an examination of self and object representations	M.A
Ece Aybeniz Çetin	Güneş Ünal, Reşit Canbeyli	What if days were shorter? The behavioral effects of a 22-hour period in wistar rats	M.A
Metin Koçyiğit	Serra Müderrisoğlu, Güler Okman Fişek	Relational cutoff and its role in protecting the self in social contexts	M.A
Sinem Üner Yanılmaz	Adil Sarıbay, Bilge Ataca	Prejudice against Syrians in Turkey : the role of age, moral perception, group identification, and contact	M.A
Nazike Mert	Ali İzzet Tekcan	Changes in psychological well-being after disclosing negative autobiographical memories	M.A
Begüm Coşgun	Ali İzzet Tekcan	Self-regulation in at-risk children : exploring factors that affect cognitive functions in refugee children	M.A
Gizem Ünlü	Gaye Soley	The role of shared knowledge in children's identification of norm violators' group affiliation	M.A
Can Baycan	Serra Müderrisoğlu	A Turkish adaptation of the revised post-event processing questionnaire	M.A
Alperen Karan	Esra Mungan	In search of tonal grounds for short term melody recognition	M.A
Tuğba Ayan	Serra Müderrisoğlu	Assessing children’s subjective well-being in a school context	M.A
Özlem Küçüközdemir	Feyza Çorapçı	Social and emotional learning in a preschool context: A teacher-led intervention program	M.A
Nihan Keşir	Feyza Çorapçı	Socioeconomic-related differences in Turkish mothers’ autonomy granting to adolescents	M.A
Saliha Erman	Ali İzzet Tekcan	Autobiographical memories of first- and second-generation Balkan immigrants and place attachment to the homeland	M.A
Nihan Sönmez	Feyza Çorapçı	The relationship between environmental chaos and diurnal cortisol levels of preschoolers	M.A
Merve İpek Şentürk	Feyza Çorapçı	Preventing preschoolers’ social skill deficits through a child training program	M.A
Sema Avşar Esen	Ayşecan Boduroğlu	The influence of recollection-driven factors on the magnitude of feeling-of-knowing judgments : a non-criterial recollection perspective	M.A
Didar Karadağ	Gaye Soley	Exploring selectivity in children’s knowledge transmission : the effects of group affiliation and knowledge type	M.A
Selen Küçüktaş	Ali İzzet Tekcan	The relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and autobiographical memory functions	M.A
Gamze Sofuoğlu	Ali İzzet Tekcan	The Effect of Disability Perception on the Temporal Distribution of Emotionally Charged Autobiographical Memories	M.A
Müge Özvarol	Ali İzzet Tekcan	Self-Defining Memories of Change and Continuity: The Effect of University Experience	M.A
Mustafa Fırat	Adil Sarıbay , Bilge Ataca Macdonald	Turks' Prejudice Against Kurds and Syrians: The Role of Contact, Identification and Threat	M.A
Gülşen Güldeste Ot	Feyza Çorapçı	The Relationshhip Between Parental Psychological Control and Preschoolers' Social-Emotional Competence	M.A

Sociology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Nihan Deniz Aktan	Ayfer Bartu Candan	Sexuality politics on the football field	M.A
Özlem İlyas	Ceren Özselçuk	Reframing freelancing for difference : towards a post-fantasmatic politics of work and class	M.A
Ahmet Uzun	Ceren Özselçuk	Spatialization of antagonism: Hegemonic struggles over Taksim square	M.A
İnci Ünal	Ayfer Bartu Candan	Academies of possibilities: An analysis of intellectual field, social movements, and knowledge production in Turkey	M.A
Didem Sağlam	Saygun Gökarıksel	Governing childhood: The juvenile justice system in Turkey	M.A
Çağla Ay	Ayfer Bartu Candan	Living with “the Mad”: The politics of psychiatric caregiving in Turkey	M.A
Esma Güney Aksoy	Bülent Küçük	Working with the suffering of the other through ummah activism : performative humanitarianism in the Mahalle	M.A
Zeynep Gizem Haspolat	Ayfer Bartu Candan	Human - non-human socialities in the city : an examination of Istanbul’s multispecies histories	M.A
Mesut Açıkalın	Meltem Ahıska	Circular entrapment : tracing the (in)formational contours of F-type high security prisons	M.A
Ekinsu Devrim Danış	Biray Kolluoğlu	Forms of labor control, consent and resistance in Islamic enterprises : a study of a factory in Kayseri	M.A
Sebastian Heuer	Saygun Gökarıksel	Emergent images : frames of counterinsurgent warfare	M.A
Doğukan Dere	Tuna Kuyucu, Mine Eder	Attempts at constructing counter-space : a comparative study of two Istanbul neighborhoods	M.A
Hümeyra Dincer	Nükhet Sirman	Conveying the message of Islam : mosque sermons by women preachers	M.A
Dilan Salık	Meltem Ahıska	Voice as a space of memory and sonorous object in the dengbêj tradition	M.A
Hatice Sıla Öztürk	Bülent Küçük	Muslim 'Feminist' Women in Modern-Day Turkey: The Changing Conceptualization of Body, Intimacy and Sexuality	M.A
Alperen Gençosmanoğlu	Nükhet Sirman	The Affective Community of Trabzonspor: Emotions, Belonging and Affective Labour	M.A
Adnan Keği	Saygun Gökarıksel	A New Episode of Displacement: The Protracted Exile of Syriand Kurds in Istanbul's Demirkapı Neighbourhood	M.A

Translation and Interpreting Studies

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Sare Rabia Öztürk	Şule Demirkol Ertürk, Mehmet Hakkı Suçin, Oğuz Baykara	From minority writer to Turkish exemplar: How Elif Shafak was consecrated for the Arab reader	Ph.D
Sema Üstün Külünk	Özlem Berk Albachten	Recontextualizing Turkish Islamist discourse: Hilal (1958-1980) as a site of translational repertoire construction	Ph.D
Müzeyyen Baturay	Jonathan Maurice Ross	Turkish-English subtitling strategies in Turkey : the case of the 2014 Istanbul film festival	M.A
Yağmur Telaferli Kalaycıoğlu	Ayşenaz Cengiz	Delayed for forty years : the journey of Anayurt Oteli from Turkish into English	M.A
Cemal Batuhan Bekmen	Ena Hodjik	Wallace’s Ghosts and Capote’s Voices: An interdisciplinary approach to style-aware reading in literary translation	M.A
Gökhan Fırat	İsmail Kaplan	Commercial translation and professional translation practitioners in the era of cognitive capitalism	M.A
Muazzez Uslu	Özlem Berk Albachten	(In) direct (Re) translations of leftist non-fiction in Turkish (1921-2016): Actors and networks	Ph.D

Turkish Language and Literature

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Abdullah Esen	Tülay Gençtürk Demircioğlu	An Ottoman miscellany compiled in the eighteenth century (Textual analysis, transcription and comparative text)	M.A
Hüsniye Koç	Fatih Altuğ	The construction of the self in Nigâr Hanım’s diaries: Writing the female subject in the late Ottoman period	M.A
Yüce Aydoğan	Erol Köroğlu	The economy of sense in Oktay Rifat’s poetry	Ph.D
Seher Özkök	Zeynep Uysal	Subject, nature and deterritorialization in Ahmet Haşim’s poetry	Ph.D
Remzi Soytürk	Erol Köroğlu	Safahat as a “Serial Novel”	M.A
Selver Sezen Kutup	Olcay Akyıldız	Textual network in Sevim Burak: The nonhuman beings of Ford Mach I	M.A
Cüneyt Yüce	Olcay Akyıldız	A queer deviance in Turkish detective fiction: The Hop-Çiki-Yaya series by Mehmet Murat Somer	M.A
İrem Vançin	Erol Köroğlu	The Relationship between historical documents and fiction in Attila İlhan's Aynanın İçindekiler series of novels	M.A
Abdullah Doğan	Veysel Öztürk	A response to the demand for modern narrative: Sergüzeşt-i Kalyopi	M.A
Hatice Kübra Armağan	Veysel Öztürk	Evil in Yusuf Atılgan's fiction	M.A
İbrahim Topal	Olcay Akyıldız	Beyond unity, between duality : a queer perspective on Venüs as a hybrid construct	M.A
Engin Kaçar	Tülay Gençtürk Demircioğlu	Kava id-i Teshirat by İbn-i İsa: An analysis and transcription	M.A
Dürdane Tekin	Tülay Gençtürk Demircioğlu	A Nineteenth-Century Chagatai Divan: A Transcription and Analysis of the Divan of Harezmî Kâmil	M.A
Merve Aykurt Orakçı	Olcay Akyıldız, Fatih Altuğ	From historical figure to literary character : representation of religious woman figures in literary texts	M.A
Ümran Atasoy	Tülay Gençtürk Demircioğlu	Style in the divans of Âdile Sultan and Tevhîde Hanım	M.A
Hayrettin Yıldırım	Fatma Büyükkarcı Yılmaz	Wine and wine-related elements of Bâkî, Fuzûlî, Hayâlî and Yahyâ Bey’s divans	M.A
Meryem Selva İnce	Zeynep Uysal	Historicising the novel : Madonna in a Fur Coat as a literary event	M.A
Fatma Kahraman	Erol Köroğlu	Embedded narratives and the chronotope concept in Ahmet Metin ve Şirzat	M.A
Yasir İslam Kaplan	Olcay Akyıldız	Messianic hopes in Oğuz Atay’s works : representations of Jesus in Tutunamayanlar and “Beyaz Mantolu Adam”	M.A
Arif Can Topçuoğlu	Erol Köroğlu	Seriality, influence and adaptation in Ahmet Mithat's novels Hasan Mellâh and Zeyl-i Hasan Mellâh	M.A
Zekiye Şeyma Erçin	Tülay Gençtürk Demircioğlu	Ahmed Bin Hüseyin El-Giridî’s Risâletü'l-Kavsiye : a transcription and textual analysis	M.A

Western Languages and Literatures

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Can Koparan	Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu	Future conceptions of language in contemporary science fiction novel	Ph.D
Selvin Yaltır	Matthew Gumpert	Samuel Beckett and communicational aesthetics: Between resonant worlds and material regimes	Ph.D
Ayşenur Feyza Şahingöz	Kim Fortuny	The cross-fertilization of the botanical and the literary	M.A
Saliha İrenci	Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu	Narrating the war : Jacob’s Room, The Return of the Soldier, and A Farewell to Arms	M.A
Büşra Erdurucan	Ethan Guagliardo	The early modern imagination : the historical drama of Bond, Churchill, Brenton and McLean	M.A
Bircan Sıkık	Matthew Gumpert, Aslı Tekinay	The lyric as the voice of pain: Individual suffering in contemporary Anglo-American poetry	M.A
Tülay Pınar Taşdemir	Matthew Gumpert	Man-animal-machine: Exploring the posthuman life in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Lady Chatterley’s Lover	M.A
Nilhan Kalkan Aydın	Emine Fişek	Staging the law : verbatim theatre and access to justice	M.A
Ayşe Beyza Artukarslan	Özlem Görey	An ecopoetic inquiry into Emily Dickinson's dwelling earthward	M.A
Burcu Kılınç	Aslı Tekinay	Haunted : tracing the figure of the ghost in drama	M.A
Gülsima Eryılmaz	Kim Fortuny	Mark Twain's dual vision of Hawaii : sublime wilderness in nineteenth-century America	M.A
Turhan Ozan Yıldız	Çiğdem Kafescioğlu	Ilyas Arabi's Risale-yi Istanbul : perceptions of architecture and legend through a sixteenth-century Ottoman text	M.A
Cihan Özkan	Aslı Tekinay	Modern Liminality of the Comic Sublime in Bernard Shaw's Drama	M.A
Cristiane Regina de Oliveira	Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu	Traumatic Testimonies: Trauma, Temporal Hybridity and Language	M.A
Gürsel Kahraman (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Emine Fişek	The representation of class-inflected masculinity in contemporary Turkish cinema	M.A
Erdem Akgün (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Didar Akar	The cosmopolitanization of culinary "Consumption" : Steakhouses as instances of the culture industry	M.A
Yasin Sofuoğlu (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Erol Köroğlu	Tragic thought in Oğuz Atay’s Tehlikeli Oyunlar: Identity, culture, and history	M.A
Minji Lee (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Maria Pilar Milagros Garcia	Views from the Varzharan : negotiation of social identities through Armenian schools	M.A
Sena Hatice Akalın Arslanalp (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Hande Tekdemir	Gendered experiences of modern cities in the novels of Turkish and Mexican women writers	M.A
Mehmet Tunay Altay (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Maria Pilar Milagros, Evren Savcı	Negotiating community engagements and alliances : Queer People of Color and Turkish migrants in Berlin	M.A
Cansu Varol (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu	Authorship in the culture industry: Azra Kohen’s series of novels Fi, Çi, and Pi	M.A
Bengi Çakmak (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Başak Demirhan, Belma Oğul	Kadıköy rock culture as an affectual environment in transition	M.A
Yaprak Damla Yıldırım (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Maria Pilar Milagros	Located Subjecthoods: Gender and Lived Body in An Atlas of the Difficult World and Afiş	M.A

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Economics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
İpek Tuğçe Çineli	Kamil Kıvanç Karaman	Historical determinants of state capacity	M.A
Hüseyin Akar	Gökhan Özertan	The welfare effects of changes in global food prices on income distribution in Turkey	M.A
Emine Taşçı	Orhan Aygün	Redesigning the high school placement mechanism in Turkey	M.A
Ravshanbek Khodzhimatov	Tolga Umut Kuzubaş	A welfare comparison of life-cycle investment strategies for Turkey	M.A
Ezgi Sevinç Gültürk	Güzin Gülsün Akın	The informal borrowing ratio in Turkey	M.A
Elif Çatmakaş	Gökhan Özertan	The impact of climate change on Turkish agriculture: An analysis of crop yields and acreage decision	M.A
Gökhan Dilek	Fikret Adaman	A system dynamic macroeconomic model for an inquiry of income inequality and environmental impact	M.A
Mehlika Özsoy	Malik Çürük	Firm size, volatility and labor market thickness	M.A
Baurzhan Toktabekov	Tolga Umut Kuzubaş	Macro stress testing on the credit risk of the banking sector in Turkey	M.A
Ramazan Aslan	Tolga Umut Kuzubaş	The effects of index constituent changes to Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 and BIST 30 indices	M.A
Yazğı Genç	Tolga Umut Kuzubaş, Gökçe Uysal Kolaşın	Dropping out of the labor force : women in Turkey	M.A
Uğurcan Acar	Tolga Umut Kuzubaş, Ozan Bakış	The dynamics of employment growth in Turkey and the creative destruction during the great recession	M.A
Serdar Selçuk	Tolga Umut Kuzubaş	Competition and the distance puzzle	M.A
Gaye Sakarya Barlas	Ceyhun Elgin	A study on the skill premium and informality	M.A
İnan Kılıç	Burak Saltoğlu	Comparing systemic risk measures during a financial crash	M.A
Ali Batuhan Barlas	Burak Saltoğlu	Statistical measures of systemic risk : an application for the Turkish banking system	M.A
Emre İnan	Murat Güray Kırdar	The effect of the 2008 employment subsidy program in Turkey	M.A

Management

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Oğuz Gençay	Hayat Kabasakal	Abusive supervision and leader–member exchange: An analysis of attitudinal, emotional and behavioral outcomes	M.A
Bahadır Karakoç	Vedat Akgiray	Financial liquidity, financing constraints and financing patterns	Ph.D
Murat Açar	Ayşegül Toker	A perceived service quality model in the sharing economy: The case of airbnb	Ph.D
Yusuf Öç	Ayşegül Toker	The effects of context awareness on the adoption of sports technologies	Ph.D
Eda Sena Şenceylan	Ayşegül Toker	Motivations behind social media use by older adults	M.A
Begüm Çeliktutan	Özlem Hesapçı Karaca	The link between the self and the fear of missing out in marketing	M.A
Berkay Bulut	Hüseyin Sami Karaca	Using local linearization to identify the dynamics of features in second-hand automobile pricing	M.A
Ezgi Etuzsoy Durgun	Burcu Rodopman	Psychological capital : links to support, job engagement and organizational commitment	M.A
Elif Tuğba Aydınlıyurt	Ayşegül Toker	Information systems continuance intention in gamified mobile applications : exploring behavioral inhibition and activation systems	Ph.D
Feyzullah Alim Kalyoncu	Hüseyin Sami Karaca	A feature engineering approach to predicting player performance in basketball	M.A
Zeynep Ogan	Hüseyin Sami Karaca	Consumer-level factors that moderate the success of private label brands: Hedonic versus utilitarian products	M.A
Emre Örendil	Belgin Arısan, Eser Borak	A marketplace with unusual dynamics: An investigation of shopper behaviour in travel retail sector	M.A
Zerrin Ekşioğlu	Hüseyin Sami Karaca	The perception of organic apparel and its effect on the purchase behavior of consumers	M.A
Onur Alten	Hayat Kabasakal	The effect of overqualification on employee work outcomes	M.A
Tutku Seçkin Çelik	Özlem Öz	Sustainability in the Turkish business environment	Ph.D
Gizem Aykanat	Gülden Asugman	An Exploration of Impulse Buying for New Insights into Consumer Behavior	M.A

Political Science and International Relations

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Charalampos Theodorelis-Rigas	Hakan Yılmaz	Identifty, informal institutions and collective action in Istanbul’s Rum community in the twenty-first century	Ph.D
Ayşe Karasaç	Murat Akan	The politics of the Olympics: The case of the Sochi 2014 winter games	Ph.D
Ömer Naim Küçük	Bann Seng Tan	The role of the military in democratization processes: The cases of Egypt and Tunisia	Ph.D
Alican Çağrı Gökçek	Murat Akan	Beyond limits : the mobilization of a wildcat strike in Turkey	M.A
Sinancan Silsüpür	Mert Arslanalp	The politics of judicial independence : explaining the trajectories of judicial councils in Italy and Turkey	M.A
Onur Mamak	Murat Akan	Sheltered bodies: Investigating the representations of Syrian refugees in Turkish media	M.A
Adil Usturalı	Volkan Çıdam	The legitimacy of secularism : a conceptual analysis	Ph.D
Jubjana Vila	Gün Kut	In search of sustainable peace : conflict transformation in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina	Ph.D
Sena Bilen Gürçay	Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu	Women’s labour force participation : rethinking the role of civil society	M.A
Ebrar Şahika Küçükaşçı	Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu	The impact of policy-making on tourism development : the case of Uzungöl	M.A
Omar Talal Samhan	Murat Akan	Entrepreneurial officers: Examining the commercial enterprises of the Algerian, Turkish, and Indonesian armed forces	M.A
Kübra Özdemir	Mine Eder	Rethinking the production of space: The case of Istanbul's Beyoğlu	M.A
Mert Köksal	Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu	Media ownership structure and media freedom analyzed from a republican conceptualization of freedom	M.A
Özlem Tunçel Gürlek	Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu	Rethinking state and civil society : two educational policies during the Justice and Development Party era	M.A
Aşkınnur Eşigül	Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu	Threat perception, contact and social distance : factors that affect public opinion on Syrians in Turkey	M.A
Hüseyin Azbay	Yeşim Arat	Kurdish tribes and the question of assimilation in Turkey	M.A
Yvo Fitzherbert	Murat Akan	The politics of civic identity in Turkey: 2011–2017	M.A
Omar Talal Samhan	Murat Akan	Entrepreneurial officers: Examining the commercial enterprises of the Algerian, Turkish, and Indonesian armed forces	M.A
Elif Akpınar	Zeynep Kadirbeyoğlu	A new wave of migration from Turkey: An exploration of driving forces	M.A
İlknur Yiğit Yazğan	Mert Arslanalp	Urban integration of irregular Afghan migrants in İstanbul: The case of the Yeni Mahalle neighborhood	M.A
Bahar Albayrak	Z. Umut Türem	Syrian refugees and the politics of migration in Europe : an ontological security perspective	M.A

The Faculty of Education

Computer Education and Educational Technology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Gülsüm Bayer	Diler Öner	The role of a virtual internship in developing preservice teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge	M.A
Havva Delal	Diler Öner	Developing middle school students’ computational thinking skills using unplugged computing activities	M.A
Gamze Uçak	Diler Öner	The effects of using an experimental strategy training tool on reading comprehension, engagement, and metacognitive awareness	M.A
Bedi Cananoğlu	Yavuz Akpınar	Redundant on-screen text, learner control and self-regulation : effects on learning past tense in English	M.A
Yağmur Uysal	Hamdi Erkunt	The effects of block-based visual programming on mathematical problem solving and computational thinking	M.A
Kader Baş	Diler Öner	Examining the role of the learning activity types approach in teachers’ technology integration	M.A
Melike İşcan	Hamdi Erkunt	Facilitating the online inquiry process for limited English users through an online search-and-find tool	M.A

Educational Sciences

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Büşra Aksöz	Zeynep Kızıltepe, Ebru Kaya	The effects of pre- and in-service training on teachers’ understanding of the nature of science	M.A
Ali Varol	Deniz Albayrak Kaymak	Early parental loss : young adults' attachment patterns, mourning, and dysfunctional romantic relationship beliefs	M.A
Süheyla Özen	Zeynep Hande Sart	Intergenerational transmission of perceived maternal acceptance and psychological adjustment in children	M.A
Osman Yılmaz	Zeynep Hande Sart	Disability microaggressions toward students in inclusive settings : The perspective of school counselors	M.A
Şeyda Çetintaş	Nihal Yeniad, Rosanneke A. G. Emmen	Beliefs about children's upbringing: The views of Turkish mothers and preschool teachers	M.A
Işık Yılmaz	Havva Ayşe Caner	Factors that contribute to adult learners' persistence in basic literacy programs	M.A
Zeynep Özdoğan	Havva Ayşe Caner, Fatma Gök	Open Education High School in Turkey: An Opportunity or a Track in Purgatory	Ph.D
Kezban Altuntaş Özben	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Workplace Learning in a School of Languages: Instructors' Values and Professional Learning Practices	M.A
Uğur Zat	Zeynep Kızıltepe	Educating the Parents of Gifted Children: A Needs Analysis	Ph.D
Gizem Öztemür	Nihal Yeniad	Relationships between executive functioning, private speech, and emotion regulation in preschoolers	M.A
Merve Kurç	Sibel Akmehmet Şekerler	An exploration of maternal transition from the perspective of employed pregnant women	M.A
Fatih Yılmaz	Sibel Akmehmet Şekerler	Cybercounseling from the perspective of cybercounselors : opportunities and challenges	M.A
Fuat Can Çalışkan	Sibel Akmehmet Şekerler	The role of anxiety, depression, and mindfulness in predicting college adjustment	M.A
Hacer Ocak	Sibel Akmehmet Şekerler	WhatsApp school groups : A study of parental experiences with instant group messaging	M.A
Betül Gülcan Çakmak	Bengü Börkan, Nihal Yeniad	Perceived social support and the psychological well-being of adolescent Syrian refugees	M.A
Akın Cihan	Deniz Albayrak-Kaymak	Expanding a counseling intake form and examining psychosocial problems of university students	M.A

Foreign Language Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Hanife Emel Yüksel Aytar	Ayşe Gürel	The organization of the mental lexicon in late second language learners	M.A
Gülşah Sobucalı	Şebnem Yalçın	The comparative effects of meaning-focused and form-focused instruction on L2 collocation learning	Ph.D
Serhat Başar	Sumru Akcan	EFL teachers’ beliefs and their practices in grammar teaching and corrective feedback: A case study	Ph.D
Fazilet Sönmez	Şebnem Yalçın	First-language use in learning the Ser/Estar distinction in Spanish as a third language	M.A
Eda Üzüm	Sumru Akcan	The effects of a practicum on pre-service english teachers’ L2 grammar teaching	M.A
Hilal Serin Demirler	Nazik Dinçtopal DenizNazik Dinçtopal Deniz	The processing of English number agreement by Turkish speakers of English : an eye-tracking study	M.A
Yeliz Korkmaz	Belma Haznedar	Spelling development in Turkish : phonological encoding and rapid naming skills in first and second graders	M.A
Hasret Saygı	Yasemin Bayyurt, Işıl Erduyan	Everyday interactions between local and refugee women in a Turkish town : identity construction and negotiation	Ph.D
Saime Kara Duman	Şebnem Yalçın	Strategy training and individual differences in L2 listening comprehension : evidence from an EFL classroom-based study	M.A
Yusuf Cengiz	Yasemin Bayyurt	An evaluation of a university-based intensive English program: Insights of students and teachers	M.A
Sena Sebit	Sibel Tatar, Sinem Yıldız	Individual and collaborative computerized concept mapping as a pre-writing strategy: Effects on EFL students’ writing	M.A
Mahsume Öz	Belma Haznedar, Nalan Babür	Predictors of emerging reading skills in Turkish: Evidence from Kurdish-Turkish bilingual early readers	M.A
Tuba Kıvanç Contuk	Belma Haznedar	The effects of writing activities on L2 vocabulary learning	M.A
Sevgi Yaman	Sibel Tatar	Native-English-speaking teachers' self-perceptions and experiences in an EFL context : perspectives from Turkey	M.A
İrem Orhan Konuk	Gülcan Erçetin	The effect of first-language versus second-language glosses on incidental vocabulary learning and retention	M.A
Sibel Ünal	Leyla Martı	An analysis of requestive emails in Turkish to an academic advisor	M.A
Tuğba Çelik Keskin	Yasemin Bayyurt	ELF-awareness in teacher training : perspectives of pre-service language teachers in an EFL context	M.A

Primary Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Samet Sarıgül	Emine Erktin	The role of parental Math anxiety in students’ Math anxiety and performance	Ph.D
Duygu Tosun	Fatma Nalan Babur, Serkan Arıkan	Development of a scale on primary school teachers’ knowledge and perception of dyslexia	M.A
Şeyda Karan	Ersoy Erdemir	The subjective well-being of children in public primary schools	M.A
Eda Özdil	Zeynep Berna Erdiller Yatmaz	Child participation in the family : a phenomenological study of fifth-grade girls’ awareness and experiences	M.A
Tuğba Aladağ	Ersoy Erdemir	Children's perspectives on the ideal preschool classroom community : an ethnographic case study	M.A
Ragibe Yeşil	Zeynep Berna Erdiller Yatmaz	Exploring children's play culture in an early childhood classroom : an ethnographic study	M.A
Hayriye Sinem Boyacı	Engin Ader	The proportional reasoning ability of preservice mathematics teachers : a mixed method study	M.A
Cansu Demirbağ	Ebru Muğaloğlu, Serkan Arıkan	Turkish Adaptation of the STEM Competency Beliefs Instrument	M.A

The School of Applied Disciplines

International Trade

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Cihat Köksal	Mehtap Işık	The Role of ecologicals in ecological footprint quality : empirical evidence from Turkey	M.A
Aziz Fırat Açar	Oğuzhan Aygören, Sema Sakarya	An examination of sales performance indicators for international live music events in Turkey	M.A
Cansın Arsen Kadakal	Oğuzhan Aygören	A novel measurement of internationalization speed and its implementation on early internationalization of new ventures	M.A
Ahmet Kaya	Ülfet Zeynep Ata	Participation in the sharing economy : the role of national culture	M.A
İrem Birol	Mehtap Işık	The effect of international trade on greenhouse gas emissions : panel data analysis	M.A
Kınay Barkın Benli	Osman Sabri Kıratlı	The impact of economic performance on voting behavior in Turkey	M.A
Mahdi Ghorbani Hokmabad	Gözde Ünal	Cointegration and causality relationship between Borsa Istanbul’s BIST100 and exchange rates	M.A
Daniel Georg Schulz	Oğuzhan Aygören	Exploring the antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions an examination of global entrepreneurship monitor data	M.A
Hanna Adela Tobola	Oğuzhan Aygören	Effects of visual design on consumer perceptions of e-commerce websites for search and experience products	M.A
Bengi Meriç Benderlioğlu	Ülfet Zeynep Ata	Consumer acceptance of wearable technology devices : A cross-cultural study in Turkey and Germany	M.A
Sevinj Aliyeva	Ülfet Zeynep Ata	Factors in companies' decisions on outsourcing : an empirical study in Turkey	M.A
Kübra Yurtgezen	Mehtap Işık	The effect of after-sales services on customer retention : the case of the Turkish smartphone market	M.A
Oğuz can Şahin	Gözde Erhan Ünal	Stock market responses to sovereign rating announcements: An event study on different country groups	M.A
Ayşe Hande Keskin	Nisan Selekler-Gökşen	Firm-level antecedents of export performance	M.A
Hüseyin Aksu	Mehtap Işık	An ex ante evaluation of free trade agreements: The case of Turkey and Brazil	M.A
Kerime Aycan Ertuğrul	Mehtap Işık	The relationship between financial development and international trade in Turkey	M.A
Muhammed Kahraman	Arzu Tektaş	The Access to Finance by SME's in Turkey and the EU: A Comparative Study	M.A

Management Information Systems

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Sarp M. Kohen	Ceylan Onay, Aslıhan Nasır	Investigating resistance factors that affect mobile banking usage	M.A
Sibel Bezirgan Alan	Meltem Özturan	The effect of organizational citizenship behavior and teamwork on the success of information systems projects	M.A
Aycan Ayyılmaz	Zuhan Tanrıkulu	An adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system for a location based social network	M.A
Gönül Zeynep Savacı	Birgül Kutlu Bayraktar	The impacts of behavioral factors on social media addiction	M.A
Hatice Ergüder	Meltem Özturan	Agile versus traditional approaches to information technology project management : a comparison of critical success factors	M.A
Samet Sayın	Ahmet Onur Durahim, Aslıhan Nasır	Identifying areas of specific interest of twitter users who tweet about cryptocurrencies	M.A
Övül Elest Gün	Sona Mardikyan	Digital transformation: The influence of critical success factors on the modern working environment	M.A
Ali Sertaç Yılmaz	Aslıhan Nasır, Nuri Başoğlu	Determinants of green product usage in two industries: Personal care and information technology	M.A
Nevzat Çakmak	Özgür Döğerlioğlu	Customer perspectives on e-commerce in different sectors	M.A
Serkan Özdemir	Bilgin Metin	Enabling domestic digital transformation: A methodology for determining the country of origin of IT products	M.A
Murat Turan	Aslı Sencer	A decision support system for reducing empty run costs in a logistic service provider company	M.A
Seçkin Karabağ	Hande Türker	Perceived value in the online shopping environment: The case of supermarket shopping	M.A
Serhat Serhatlı	Ceylan Onay Şahin	Consumer adoption of Bitcoin in e-commerce	M.A
Sedat Payal	Ahmet Onur Durahim	A social network analytics based recommendation system	M.A
Mustafa Can Akbaş	Aslıhan Nasır	The relationship between snapchat users‟ motivation, attitude and personality and the application‟s content and features	M.A
Yeşim Yılmaz	Aslı Sencer	Business process reengineering using process mining	M.A
Nuri Tuğkan İnce	Ahmet Onur Durahim	Predicting the Bitcoin trend using technical indicators for deep learning algorithmic features	M.A
Ala Rabea	Bilgin Metin	Privacy concerns on mobile applications Vis-À-Vis the number of permissions requested by android apps	M.A
Deniz Kut	Hande Türker	Consumers evaluations of brand extensions for digital brands	M.A
Didem Özkan	Ceylan Onay Şahin	Multi-dimensional trust formation in neobanks and its implications for users' perceived risk	M.A
Sevgi Çavuşyan	Ceylan Onay Şahin	Digital transformation : a mutual understanding and strategic alignment perspective	M.A
Merve Bilici	Hande Türker	Online consumer dissatisfaction, perceived solution effectiveness and the service recovery paradox	M.A
Halil Göker Ulaş	Birgül Kutlu Bayraktar	The accessibility of airline websites to the handicapped	M.A
Ahmet Yanar	Birgül Kutlu Bayraktar	Business Process Reengineering: The Case of a Chemical Company in Turkey	M.A
Büşra Atlanel	Ahmet Onur Durahim	A Hybrid Article Recommendation System Based on Deep Learning and Co-Publication Network Analytics	M.A
Cihan Alpay	Ceylan Onay Şahin	The Moderating Effect of Financial Literacy on the Adoption of Fintech	M.A
İlke Uygun	Ahmet Onur Durahim	Playing the Turkish game Okey with deep reinforcement learning	M.A
Onur Burak Özkan	Ceylan Onay Şahin	The adoption of near-field communication technology for mobile payments : an empirical investigation of major determinants	M.A

Tourism Administration

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Selanay Ata	Bengi Ertuna	The effects of tourism on the subjective well-being of the residents of Cappadocia	M.A
Marveh Farhoodi	Bengi Ertuna	Turkey’s tourism social entrepreneurship ecosystem: An assessment of the potential for hybrid value creation	M.A
Burcu Görek	Kıvanç İnelmen, Perran Akan	Sustainable tourism from the perspective of local residents : the case of Büyükada	M.A
Hilal Akdemir	Duygu Salman Öztürk	Social tourism as a tool for creating an inclusive society : examining Turkey’s alternative camp	M.A

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

Asian Studies

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Türkan Arslan	Arzu Öztürkmen, Kadir Temiz	Emerging energy trends in East Asia : the relationship between production levels and world oil prices	M.A
Alp Anıl Ateş	M. Asım Karaömerlioğlu	The making of luxury markets: A comparison of Chinese and Turkish patterns	M.A
Zeynepcan Akar	M. Asım Karaömerlioğlu, Altay Atlı	Turkey, China and the silk road of energy : The Trans-Anatolian natural gas pipeline	M.A
Reyhan Silingar	Oğuz Baykara	The role of the emperor in postwar Japan : an analysis of emperor Showa’s addresses at parliament openings	M.A
Aslı İdil Kaynar	Oğuz Baykara, Lale Babaoğlu	Representations of the modern girl in Japanese interwar literature	M.A
Gözde Can	Arzu Öztürkmen, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu	Nasreddin Efendi (Afanti) in the Chinese media: A state instrument for coping with the Uyghur issue	M.A
Can Öçalan	Lale Babaoğlu, Selçuk Esenbel	Japan’s constitutional revision debate in the light of domestic and regional developments	M.A
Çağdaş Utku Çakmak	Arzu Öztürkmen, Selçuk Esenbel	Policy convergence between the Russian Federation and the people's republic of China	M.A
Ebru Duman	Oğuz Baykara	The impact of Kawaii culture on gender and Japan’s national image	M.A
Güneş Sargüney	Arzu Öztürkmen, Erdal Küçükyalçın	Robotics and ageing well in Japan : the challenges and prospects for a super-aged society	M.A
Melisa Gündüz	Arzu Öztürkmen, Erdal Küçükyalçın	The changing role of Japanese NGOs : a case study of a Japanese NGO in Turkey	M.A

Cognitive Science

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Ece Kaya	Esra Mungan, Pavel Logacev	In search of language-based factors influencing rhythmic grouping	M.A
Naciye Tuğçe Akkoç	İnce Ayhan, Emre Uğur	Interaction between cyberbodies and cyberspace : the effect of avatar abilities on affordance perception in virtual reality	M.A
Ali Taylan Bilik	İnci Ayhan, Tuna Çakar	Neural and cognitive underpinnings of trustworthiness in the prefrontal cortex via optical brain imaging	M.A
Ayşe Melisa Kurtcan	Lucas Thorpe, İnci Ayhan	Temporal experience : perception and action dynamics	M.A
Fatih Sivridağ	Gülcan Erçetin, Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz	Effects of working memory and language proficiency on second language predictive inference generation : an eye-movement study	M.A
Mehmet Abdulkerim Tetik	Stephen Voss, Adil Sarıbay	Inconsistency and multiplicity in the self	M.A

Social Policy

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A/Ph.D
Sercan Zülfikar	Volkan Yılmaz	Turkey‘s tobacco control policies in comparative perspective: An analysis of anti-tobacco NGO stances	M.A
Simla Serim	Serra Müderrisoğlu	Educational well-being of Syrian refugee children in public schools : a qualitative study in Istanbul	M.A
Müge Gülmez	Volkan Yılmaz	Attitudes of young Turkish workers towards private pension plans	M.A
Didem Gürbüz	Volkan Yılmaz	Reclassifying the Turkish welfare regime in the light of child well-being indicators	M.A
Şule Nur Sarper	Volkan Yılmaz	The role of domestic politics in the 2006 corporate tax reform in Turkey	M.A
Çağla Gün	Volkan Yılmaz	Public-private partnership in Turkish healthcare provision : the city hospital model	M.A
Şeyma Nazlı Gürbüz	Volkan Yılmaz	Refugee women's employment in Turkey's humanitarian response to the Syrian crisis : a qualitative documentary analysis	M.A
Anıl Gencelli	Volkan Yılmaz	An analysis of rehabilitation policies in Turkey from the perspective of disability rights activists	M.A
Merve Kardelen Bilir	Volkan Yılmaz	Mental health care policy reform in Turkey: User group perspectives	M.A

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