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The despotic imperative: From Hiero to the circle
(Duke University Press, 2019)
The article thematizes the actuality of despotism through a double reading of Xenophon’s Hiero and Dave Eggers’s Circle. A key text on despotism, Hiero is interesting to reconsider in a contemporary context because of its ...
Revisiting the Mainstream Approaches of the Theories of International Relations
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2015)
The view that we have reached the end of the "grand debates" in International Relations (IR) is widespread among the majority of IR scholars. Today, we observe that the references to the great theoretical debates in the ...
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 ...
A memetic random-key genetic algorithm for a symmetric multi-objective traveling salesman problem
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2008)
This paper proposes a methodology to find weakly Pareto optimal solutions to a symmetric multi-objective traveling salesman problem using a memetic random-key genetic algorithm that has been augmented by a 2-opt local ...
Will peace flourish in the end? The history of suffering: Terrorism in Turkey
(2013)
For the past 30 years, the PKK has launched a campaign of terror in Turkey. Despite the rise and fall of attacks throughout the years, the PKK's terrorist activities have never completely ended. Through the recent initiative ...
A Sustainable Multi-Layered Open Data Processing Model For Agriculture: IoT Based Case Study Using Semantic Web For Hazelnut Fields
(ASTES Publishers, 2020)
In recent years, several projects which are supported by information and communications technologies (ICT) have been developed in the agricultural domain to promote more precise agricultural activities. These projects ...
Effects of second language on motion event lexicalization: Comparison of bilingual and monolingual children's frog story narratives
(Selcuk University, 2020)
This study investigates how children lexicalize motion event patterns in their first and second languages, L1-Turkish and L2-English. English is a satellite-framed language that conflates motion with manner expressed in ...
Cultural heritage as status seeking: The international politics of Turkey's restoration wave
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2020)
This article explores the relationship between cultural heritage politics and international status-seeking. We advance a two-fold typology of status-seeking that explains why states engage in cultural heritage restoration ...
Does mood affect institutional herding?
(Elsevier, 2020)
Drawing on a unique data set of daily portfolio holdings for Turkish mutual funds we investigate the relationship between mood and institutional herding on the premises of various established mood proxies (weekend effect; ...