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Towards better child protection programmes: a qualitative evaluation of Youth Disseminating Life Skills Programme
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
The present study aimed to assess the acceptability of a 12-week training programme Youth Disseminating Life Skills Programme whose aims were to help university students acquire knowledge on and to increase sensitivity ...
Characterization of MWCNT-TiO2 Qps and TiO2 QDs in self-assembled films
(Elsevier, 2017)
In this study the solution which includes TiO2 quantum dots (QDs) was mixed with the multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) to prepare MWCNT-TiO2 QDs composite films. The effect of microstructures on the structural and optical ...
A fuzzy AHP-PROMETHEE II approach for evaluation of solar power plant location alternatives in Turkey
(IOS Press, 2017)
Solar energy produced through a solar power plant is a freely available non-polluting renewable source of energy that reduces the greenhouse effect. Selecting the best location for a solar power plant among several location ...
The Effect of Energy Geopolitics on International Climate Change Initiatives
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2017)
In this article in general the relationship between international climate change initiatives and energy geopolitics was analyzed and in particular the developments in energy geopolitics were investigated with a historical ...
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 ...