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Border as "Zone of Indistinction": The State of Exception and the Spectacle of Terror Along Turkey's Border With Syria
(Sage Publications Inc, 2018)
Turkey's border with Syria today is a laboratory in which biopolitics and the spectacle coincide in new ways. As a consequence of the ongoing war between the state and Kurdish insurgents, and the state of emergency ...
Unveiling the effects of a headscarf ban: Evidence from municipal jobs in Turkey
(Academic Press Inc., 2020)
Religious conservatism is often associated with patriarchal attitudes and deterioration of women's rights. This conventional wisdom has motivated ubiquitous policies that limit public expressions of religion and emphasize ...
Forecasting Models For Daily Natural Gas Consumption Considering Periodic Variations And Demand Segregation
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)
Due to expensive infrastructure and the difficulties in storage, supply conditions of natural gas are different from those of other traditional energy sources like petroleum or coal. To overcome these challenges, supplier ...
A 'Regional Energy Hub' for achieving a low-carbon energy transition
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2018)
The transition to a low-carbon energy economy will remain a cornerstone of national energy policies of countries committed to the climate change accord for decades to come. We think that transmission investment is one key ...
Who is responsible? The impact of emotional personalization on explaining the origins of social problems
(Routledge, 2020)
Personalization refers to the journalistic practice of including emotional case studies of ordinary people in news stories, increasing vividness and emotional charge of news and eliciting identification and empathy in news ...
Wallace Stevens's Poetics of the Other
(Walter De Gruyter Gmbh, 2017)
This article reveals a central yet hitherto unsuspected meditation in Wallace Stevens on the problem of the other person in relation to the concept of the other construed by Gilles Deleuze as the "expression of a possible ...
Understanding the Images of Alan Kurdi With "Small Data": A Qualitative, Comparative Analysis of Tweets About Refugees in Turkey and Flanders (Belgium)
(USC Annenberg Press, 2017)
One of the peak moments of the debate on the European refugee crisis was caused by the circulation of images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Aegean Sea on September 2, 2015. The images triggered ...
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 ...
"Life is a state of mind' - on fiction, society and Trump
(Routledge Journals, 2017)
The article undertakes an allegorical double reading of Being There and Trump as instances of what we call socio-fiction. Crucially in this respect, reality and fiction are not two opposed realms. The two realms always ...
Design, Synthesis and hMAO Inhibitory Screening of Novel 2-Pyrazoline Analogues
(Bentham Science Publ Ltd, 2017)
Aim and Objective: MAO inhibitors have a significant effect on the nervous system since they act in regulation of neurotransmitter concentrations. Neurotransmitter levels are critical for a healthy nervous system. MAO ...