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Ideology Political Agenda and Conflict: A Comparison of American European and Turkish Legislatures' Discourses on Kurdish Question
(Center Foreign Policy & Peace Research, 2017)
Combining discourse analysis with quantitative methods this article compares how the legislatures of Turkey the US and the EU discursively constructed Turkey's Kurdish question. An examination of the legislative-political ...
A crude marriage: Iraq Turkey and the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
Since the discovery of oil at Kirkuk in northern Iraq oil has shaped relations between Iraq and Turkey as the former needed markets and export routes to the Mediterranean and the latter reliable sources of supply. This ...
Border Crossings between Georgia and Turkey: The Sarp Land Border Gate
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
The Sarp land border gate between Turkey and Georgia has become Turkey's gateway to the East in recent years. With a large number of individuals crossing every day it is also a labour gate where irregular Georgian immigrants ...
Turkey's Outward Foreign Direct Investment: Trends and Patterns of Mergers and Acquisitions
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
The aim of this study is to examine the recent evolution of Turkish outward foreign direct investment together with Turkish firms' cross-border acquisitions across time countries and industries. The article suggests that ...
Abortion services at hospitals in Istanbul
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
Objective: Despite the existence of a liberal law on abortion in Turkey there is growing evidence that actually securing an abortion in Istanbul may prove difficult. This study aimed to determine whether or not state ...
Bayesian estimation of discrete-time cellular neural network coefficients
(TUBITAK Scientific & Technical Research Council Turkey, 2017)
A new method for finding the network coefficients of a discrete-time cellular neural network (DTCNN) is proposed. This new method uses a probabilistic approach that itself uses Bayesian learning to estimate the network ...
Efficiency in Turkish banking: post-restructuring evidence
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
Turkish banking sector went through a significant restructuring process in the aftermath of the country's financial crisis of 2000-2001. In this paper we analyze the evolution of banking performance using a novel approach ...
How people can become persuaded by weak messages presented by credible communicators: Not all sleeper effects are created equal
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2017)
The sleeper effect has been proposed to describe temporal changes in persuasion for messages associated with noncredible sources. The present research introduces a new kind of sleeper effect denoting increases in persuasion ...
Broadband matching via reflection function optimization
(Wiley, 2017)
In this paper a practical approach is presented for designing broadband matching networks via reflection function optimization. In the proposed algorithm the input or output reflection function of the matching network is ...
The role of climate: implications for service employee engagement and customer service performance
(Springer, 2017)
This research attempts to challenge the resource-engagement and engagement-performance linkage of the job demands-resources model by testing these links under the moderating role of two climates: performance-focused and ...