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You Are What You Wear: Clothing/Appearance Laws and the Construction of the Public Citizen in Turkey
(Berg Publ, 2010)
As Turkey set its sights on modernization and Westernization in the early decades of the twentieth century, clothing reform took center stage. The state used clothing as a constitutive element in its establishment and ...
Do we have the right toolbox? A process of mixed methods: A research case from an urban transformation site in Istanbul
(WITPress, 2013)
Since 2000, cities have been undergoing rapid and forced transformations initiated both by real estate markets and governments. Within the context of such developments, urban researchers often focus on sites and communities ...
Media and democracy in Turkey: Toward a model of neoliberal media autocracy
(2012)
This paper reveals the ways in which media autocracy operates on political, judicial, economic and discursive levels in post-2007 Turkish media. Newsmakers in Turkey currently experience five different systemic kinds of ...
The evolution civil-military relations and democratization in the balkans
(Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, 2012)
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, in addition to the political and economic orders, the structure of civil-military relations also began to change. The paper will provide an insight into the ...
Contending agendas for the Black Sea region
(2012)
The Black Sea has been a site of conflictual relations for centuries, though changes since the end of the Cold War have allowed for the emergence of a cooperative environment. Because of the region's strategic location, ...
Studying of effects of offset print education to print quality
(2012)
With development of societies, quality is also required along with fair prices on products. As the technology progresses rapidly, some negations are faced in sense off print quality due to lack of information and skill in ...
Ecological strategies for designing halys river: A landscape of flux
(Scibulcom Ltd., 2019)
Natural and manmade disasters led to the emergence of new approaches in designing our environment in the postindustrial era. Modern technological infrastructures failure to respond to the challenges from environmental ...
A heuristic approach for allocation of data to RFID tags: A data allocation knapsack problem (DAKP)
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2012)
Durable products and their components are increasingly being equipped with one of several forms of automatic identification technology such as radio frequency identification (RFID). This technology enables data collection, ...
Bargaining with nonanonymous disagreement: Decomposable rules
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2011)
We analyze bargaining situations where the agents' payoffs from disagreement depend on who among them breaks down the negotiations. We model such problems as a superset of the standard domain of Nash (1950). We first show ...
How do women receive inheritance? The processes of Turkish women’s inclusion and exclusion from property
(Research Institute of Asian Women, 2013)
This article employs Turkey as a case study to explore the relationship between property ownership, inheritance, and women’s empowerment. In Turkey, as in much of the world, men dominate ownership of property. This is ...