Theses supervised by Yrd. Doç. Dr. Mahmut Deniz Tansi
10 theses · Yeditepe University
Transformation process of Northern Iraq to Kurdistan regional government after the Gulf War
Because of its geopolitical location, natural resources and ethnic ? cultural structure, Northern Iraq has always been the center of attention of hegemon countries in each period especially after World War I when industrialization started to improve. Kurdish revolts that aimed to establish an administration in which Kurdish factors were effective whose past actually were based on much more ago in Northern Iraq, increased after World War I and achieved a very large acceleration even after World War II.Kurdish factors which were one of the most important factors in the Middle East have focused this process; they started with the purpose of establishing an administrational structure for themselves after World War II, predominantly in lands of Iraq. Consequently, they could manage to establish a de facto administration for themselves thanks to; the circumstances created following the Gulf War in 1991 and also provided external support. Kurdish factors played an important role in reshaping of Iraq following the invasion by the USA and Kurdish formation movement gained a boost and earned the current de facto administrational structure a legal nature. The administration established by Iraqi Kurds who earned such a situation that could be very effective about the future of Iraq and accordingly the Middle East after the invasion by the USA, and also the establishment process this administration present the scope of this thesis. In this context, the purpose of this thesis is to observe; development process and current situation of Regional Kurdish Administration, and its situation in Turkish Foreign Policy after World War I through definition, explanation and interpretation phases. All stages covered along the formation of Regional Kurdish Administration was observed chronologically. In our research based on documents; books, magazines, articles, newspaper and official documents about Turkey and Iraq, and domestic and foreign press have been referenced, and maps and reports have also been used. Additionally, documents present in the internet were also referenced.
The economic foundations of Turkish foreign policy during AK Party era
This thesis examines the foreign economic relations of Turkey which is an instrument of Turkish foreign policy and the contribution of Turkish foreign policy to Turkish economy by benefiting both from the statistics and indices. In this context, the economy foreign policy relationship will be scrutinized. Our study is focused on the change of Turkish economy during the period of 2002 – 2012 of Ak Party that came into power after the crisis of year 2001 and the new approaches in the foreign policy within this period. In this study the basic findings are: Firstly, the performance of the Turkish economy in the 1990s is compared with its performance between the years 2002 – 2012 with different parameters and it was seen that there was a relative improvement. Second, in this period the scale is enlarged with new approaches in global and regional areas in the Turkish foreign policy and as a result of this the quests of regional economic integration has been shown by benefiting from statistics. Thirdly, depending on the growth of the scale in Turkish Foreign Policy; by removing visas within the frames of new approaches, it has been facilitated the opening of diplomatic embassies, the signing of free trade agreements, the Non-governmental organizations, to be able to cooperate and conducting trade of the business world with the global and regional world rapidly. In this context, Turkish Foreign Policy has increased the global and regional cooperation and its quests for conducting trade in becoming a "Trading State". Keywords: Ak Party, Foreign Policy, Soft Power, Economy, Trading State
Local administration policies on the basis of Turkey's local elections (2014): A comparative study of ruling–main opposition parties
In countries such as Turkey, where political parties and electoral systems are observed to impact the national political programs, negative or positive influence on local politics is purported to be the probable consequence. It has been observed that localization, which is coming more into the forefront especially in line with the recent developments, increments the importance of local administration structures, where concepts such as accountability and improvement of service quality have become the homesite for democracy. As for the social requests emanating from daily needs, while result-oriented services carried out via the local governments have turned out to be more valuable because of the principle of affinity to the citizen, the existence of a ruling party and an opposition party that will inspect this ruling party, which in turn, will accelerate public administration through structural reforms is deemed among significant factors in determining local policies. Under these circumstances, the objective of this study is to determine the contributing causes in implementing or targeting to implement local administration policies from the ruling and main opposition parties' perspectives within the scope of the 2014 Local Elections, in addition to the historical development of the local administrations.
Arab-Isaraeli relations in respect to the Camp David: Camp David's relevence for today
This thesis examines the support and assistance of Western powers to the Zionist Organization by chronologically scrutinizing the foundation phases of the Jewish state initially established in the Middle East as well as the First Zionism Congress. In addition, the conflicts and the ongoing wars from1947 till 1973 shall be focused on. In relation to this perspective, fast growing and developing Arab nationalism will be explained. The main purpose of this thesis is to explain the conflictual Arab-Israeli relations due to the wars and to explore the foundations of the better relationship after a prolonged period of time through pro-western acts and shifts in the axis of Egypt in recent years with the Camp David Peace Treaty. Then, how Camp David has affected the Middle East and how significant changes such as "Arab Awakening" have had an effect on the Camp David Peace Process. However; only the effects of "Arab Awakening" on the Camp David Peace Process will be examined in this thesis as the issue of "Arab Awakening" should be examined thoroughly in an another research.
The effects of Johnson letter on Turkish-American relations and Turkish foreign policy during the period of 1960-1980 relative authonomy and the process of identification priorities
This study in essence, dealt with 1960-1980 period covering the most turbulent years of Turkish-American relations, and relative autonomy process experienced Turkey's foreign policy structuring within this time frame. Just as bipolar ideological power struggle emerged after WWII in international conjuncture, became one of the main determining factor for rising course and continuity of Turkish-American relations, the external conjunctural environment of 1960s, that begun to change, and the forces coming from internal social-structural dynamics of country have been accepted as factors that will relatively change the nature of both relations and foreign politics, and pushes search for alternative solutions that will balance against Western dependency. While footsteps of this changes were heard by Cuban Crisis and U-2 events, become clearer after Johnson Letter coming with 1964 Cyprus Crisis. Our aim in this thesis work, is to investigate what kind of effects did Johnson Letter create on point of re-evaluation, diversification and transition to versatility in process of relative autonomy and determining priorities in Turkish Foreign Policy that generally began in 1960s and continued until 1980 military coup. To find answers to these questions qualitative research technique was used, formation and development of process has been dealt with the framework of foreign policy levels of analysis covering international-system, state-societal and individual levels, from a historical perspective. Founding result is; although there is not seeing a permanent deviation in main axis of foreign policy, assumption that Johnson Letter is an important catalyst on point of re-evaluating, transition to versatility and diversification of foreign policy, tension with US after letter and lack of confidence forming in public opinion not only affected course of relations, but also opens a transformation can be considered important in one-way, block-oriented foreign policy structuring of Turkey. In this context, Letter has considered as a reference point for some important changes about diversifying general orientation in conduct of foreign policy decision-makers', changing a certain extent, and increasing their ability to act in foreign policy, even if it is relative. After this date, Turkey's relations with Eastern Bloc, Soviets, and Third World Countries esspecially Arabs in Middle East has entered a certain degree of rapprochement and recovery process. However, relative autonomy and multifaceted foreign policy process, which gained momentum after Johnson Letter, ended with September 12, 1980 military coup.
Turkey's approach to Northern Iraq after 1991
Iraq has been an interesting foreign policy area for the analysis of Turkish foreign policy due to the fact that security concerns have dominated the foreign policy agenda besides economic and socio-cultural issues. However, Turkish interest in Iraq is not limited to security domain; there are other aspects of Turkish interest in Iraq such as historical ties and socio-cultural bonds. Moreover, in order to understand the current relationships between the Iraq and Turkey to analyze Turkish foreign policy towards Northern Iraq, a multi-dimensional analysis on the historical and theoretical ground should be asserted. To assess the Iraq policy of Turkey comprehensively, this study tried to make the analysis of current Turkish foreign policy and its assumptions, besides sociopolitical realities of the region.
The effect of word of mouth marketing on consumer buying decisions a pratice aimed at the students of Yeditepe University
The primary aim of all businesses is to be able to maintain their continuity. The top priority act the businesses have to perform in order to maintain their continuity is to supply by producing the most appropriate and accessible goods and services best suited to the demands and needs of consumer masses. They must act by taking into account the empathy technique while presenting the produced goods and services to the market. Ultimately, the producer is also a consumer. Every individual receives the title of consumer of an enterprise at least once. What is important here is to increase the loyal customer potential and number. There occur many duties and responsibilities for the businesses. Businesses benefit from many marketing techniques while presenting their products or services to the market. Traditional and modern marketing are the most common forms of these. Because consumers are influenced positively or negatively by oral communication while they are in buying behavior. When consumers are consuming to meet their needs and are unable to find time to investigate and think about the information they are exposed to, they behave in a buying behavior taking into consideration the opinions and thoughts of people who are found in their surroundings, such as family, friends, neighbors etc. since the fact that the individuals in their immediate surroundings are able to reach it in a shorter time without any profit-oriented intentions play an important role in this issue. This communication process, which has become so popular and more objective and independent for people, is of great importance in word of mouth marketing's determining the marketing techniques of businesses today. For example, we can explain with a very simple example that no doctor would write mint lemon on the prescription of the flu patient. However, mint and lemon, in almost no generation, has ever lost its importance from the past day to the present. It is a grandmother vitamin medicine that will continue throughout generations.
The Ukraine policy of the Russian Federation and the paradigms in European energy security
After gaining its independence from the Soviet Union on July 16, 1990, Ukraine has been stuck between the Russia and the West due to different domestic political structures. Moscow would like to keep Kyiv on its side because of latter's geopolitical, geoeconomical and geostrategical significance for itself within the context of its Wider Black Sea Policy. On the other hand, the Euro-Atlantic Bloc would like to see Ukraine within it. Moreover, the transportation of 66 percent of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine makes this country a critically important one both within the European and Russian energy strategies. When that flow is interrupted, the European countries face very tough conditions. In November 2013, the refusal of then Ukraine administration under pro-Russian President Yanukovych in signing the EU Association Agreement caused the rebel movements of pro-Europeans against Yanukovych. Now, the Western Ukraine is controlled by pro-Western groups whereas Crimea and Eastern Ukraine are controlled by pro-Russians. The Western world makes pressure over Moscow for its Ukraine policy via applying sanctions. But Kremlin seems not to go backward from its existing stance in Ukraine as well as to develop new security and economic initiatives with other states. The use of Case Study Method with classical realist theory tries to open up a new window for understanding Russia's Ukraine Policy and its impacts on European energy security. The uncertainty on the future of current stalemate necessitates the close examination of this issue.
Kadima Partisi'nin İsrail dış politikasına etkisi (2005-2009)
The topic of thesis will be how did the security issues surrounding The Second Lebanese War and Operation Cast Lead reshape Kadima Party's role in Israel's political life. This thesis will limited between 2005-2009 (Kadima's government term). Most of the literature of this period focuses on the political or security issues surrounding The Second Lebanese War. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to explore how the security and political issues surrounding. The Lebanese War and Operation Cast Lead reshaped Kadima's role in Israel's political life. The following key issues will guide the research: 1.General security is always high in Israel's historical and political life. This factor also gives a directions in Israeli political parties and political life. This factor also gives a directions in Israeli political parties and political life. Operation Cast Lead and The Second Lebanese War has changed Israel's security policies. 2.Kadima's role has changed after Operation Cast Lead and The Second Lebanese War in Israel political life. Because of this the election results changed 2006 to 2009. 3.Hamas' election victory how influence the direction of Kadima's international politics in Operation Cast Lead and The Second Lebanese War.
Integration of Anatolian Alevis in German political life
In early 1960's when Anatolian guest workers started to immigrate into European lands an irreversible political, cultural and sociological transformation process started. In this migration wave, inevitably Anatolian Alevis' religious, cultural and political codes arrived in European countries as other Anatolian identity groups. As generations passed and guest workers transformed into regular inhabitants and citizens an integration equation occurred with many dependent and independent variables with European societies. Before 1990s Alevis were an unknown entity and also an irrelevant detail in the perception of European political elites, but, after the European Union process, just as other minority groups, Alevis found the suitable political and sociological climate to express themselves and became engaged in the political process. The biggest group of immigrants in Germany comes from Turkey but their integration process into the German society and political life are considered difficult due to the differences in the cultures and traditions between local and immigrant groups. Integration of Anatolian Alevis in German political life is a social aspect and can be studied best through looking at the how people interact with the established assumptions. For this reason the researcher decided to use a qualitative research design based on a literature review. This research examines the integration of the Alevis into the German political life, how far had the integration become possible, and the barriers, which constrain the full integration of the Alevis into the German political life.