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WAITING FOR STATE: POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF EXPANDED DISPOSSESSION AND THE DESICCATION OF LAKE MARMARA Çam, Faruk; Zırh, Besim Can; Department of Sociology (2026-10-9) Environmental considerations diffused into various disciplines of social sciences with climate change fundamentally changed these fields. The relationship between people and their environments has been a central issue in s...
Structure and Transformation: Two Ontological Reconfigurations of the Event in Badiou and Deleuze Türkmen, Kaan Ali; Ertuğrul, Kürşad; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2026-10-7) This thesis examines the concept of the event as a response to the problem of political transformation after structuralism. It argues that structuralism, by displacing the sovereign subject and emphasizing relational deter...
Analysis of stigmatization of non-refoulement violations in EU migration governance: I/NGO and IGO responses since 2010 Köse, Berna; Bahçecik, Şerif Onur; Department of European Studies (2026-10-5) The non-refoulement principle constitutes one of the building blocks of international refugee law, prohibiting the return of individuals to territories where they face persecution, torture, or other serious harm. Despite i...
Transit Lives, Imagined Futures: Home, Belonging and Temporality Among Iranian Migrant Women in Türkiye Güneş, Hava Sare; Zırh, Besim Can; Department of Sociology (2026-10-5) The thesis examines Iranian migrant women’s experiences of prolonged transit in Türkiye and how this experience shapes their understandings of home, belonging and the future. Instead of conceptualizing transit migration as...
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE IDENTITY POSITIONING AND TRANSLANGUAGING PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY OF TURKISH-GERMAN RETURNEES Öztürk, Havva; Sağın Şimşek, Sultan Çiğdem; Department of English Language Teaching (2026-10-5) The present study investigates identity positioning and translanguaging practices of Turkish-German returnees who grew up in Germany and subsequently returned to the ethnic homeland Türkiye. The study focuses on how retur...
RETHINKING THE POLITICAL IN ECOLOGICAL THOUGHT Aydemir, Fatmagül; Birler, Reşide Ömür; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2026-10-5) Despite the growing visibility of ecological crises, institutional responses rarely produce a political rupture and remain largely confined to consensual governance. This thesis seeks one of the reasons for this situation ...
Exploring Precarious Labour Of Women Tourism Workers: The Case Of Antalya Carti, Pelinsu; Kuymulu, Mehmet Barış; Department of Sociology (2026-10-2) This thesis examines the structural dimensions of women's precarious labor within Antalya's tourism sector. Situated as a primary engine of regional economic development, Antalya’s tourism economy relies heavily on flexibl...
NEVER JUST A GAME: LUDIC AGGRESSION AND THE PROCESS ONTOLOGY OF PLAY Şilen, Yusuf Kayra; Shores, Corry Michael; Department of Philosophy (2026-10-2) That a life is a game is said constantly and examined rarely, and the sentence cannot be assessed until one of its two terms is fixed. This thesis fixes that term. Taking seriously the counterexample of the examination pap...
Techno-nationalism, state patronage, and the formation of a professional moral order among METU graduates in the Turkish defense industry Öz, Elif; Tokluoğlu, Ayşe Ceylan; Department of Sociology (2026-10-2) This thesis examines how METU-graduated engineers in the Turkish defense industry construct the meaning of their work and how techno-nationalism and state patronage enter that construction. Its primary source is a corpus o...
Water, Society, and Environment: The History and Political Ecology of Atatürk Dam Çobanoğlu, Atakan; Dursun, Selçuk; Department of History (2026-10-1) The Atatürk Dam, Turkey’s largest hydraulic infrastructure project, is the result of immense technical capacity, state capital, labor, the subjugation of nature, and massive resettlement. This thesis examines the historica...
“WHAT AM I EXPERIENCING?”: WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP Karal, Şevval; Gençöz, Faruk; Uçar, Selin; Department of Psychology (2026-10-1) This study aims to explore the subjective experiences of women subjected to psychological abuse in their intimate relationships. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five women, who reported exp...
NON-NATIVE PARENTING AS A FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY: BELIEFS, CHALLENGES AND DAILY PRACTICES Bulut, Erva; Işık, Elvan Eda; Sağın Şimşek, Sultan Çiğdem; Department of English Language Teaching (2026-9-30) This study aims to provide a holistic account of Non-Native Parenting (NNP) by examining parents‟ beliefs and motivations, the challenges they encounter throughout the process, and how these beliefs and challenges shape th...
COUNTERTRANSFERENCE: THE IMPACT OF PSYCHOTHERAPISTS’ PERSONAL ANALYSIS ON CLINICAL PRACTICE Yüksel, Elif; Gençöz, Faruk; Özüorçun Küçükertan, Nurten; Department of Psychology (2026-9-30) Countertransference has long been considered a central issue in psychotherapy, yet limited research has examined how therapists’ personal analysis influence their understanding and management of countertransference. The ai...
A WAY OF BEING, BECOMING, AND BELONGING: AN INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MASOCHISM WITHIN BDSM Keçeci, Elif Sena; Gençöz, Tülin; Demir, Eylül Ceren; Department of Psychology (2026-9-30) The present study aims to explore how individuals who identify as masochists experience and make sense of sexual masochism within the context of consensual BDSM, and how this experience is situated in their lives, what mea...
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPATHY IN YOUNG CHILDREN AND EMOTION SOCIALIZATION PRACTICES OF THEIR PARENTS Topatan, Elif; Olgan, Refika; Department of Early Childhood Education (2026-9-30) The purposes of this study are, first, to examine the empathy levels of children 60-72 months and gender differences in empathy; second, identifying emotion socialization practices of mothers and fathers of children 60-72 ...
Pre-service teachers’ perceptions of inclusion through reflective practices in language teacher education Aysan, Aslı; Çakır, Nur; Department of Curriculum and Instruction (2026-9-30) This qualitative study explores pre-service language teachers’ perceptions of how reflective practices influence their preparation for inclusive teaching. Using a basic qualitative design, data were collected from 10 fourt...
IMPLICIT CAUSALITY BIASES IN TURKISH CHILDREN: A STUDY ON AMBIGUOUS PRONOUN RESOLUTION IN PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE EVENTS Saraç, Galiya; Özge, Duygu; Department of English Language Teaching (2026-9-30) This study investigated pronoun resolution in Turkish psychological state events in volving implicit causality among young children whose linguistic proficiency and world knowledge were still developing. Three experiments ...
TURKISH ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS IN PRIVATE PRACTICE: NEW DYNAMICS IN ORGANIZING THE ARCHITECTURAL PROFESSION IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY İpek, Elif Nur; Altan, Tomris Elvan; Department of History of Architecture (2026-9-30) This study examines the history of the professional architectural organizations in Turkey, focusing on the new dynamics of organization in the late twentieth century that led to the foundation of Türk Serbest Mimarlar Dern...
BRIDGING THE DISCURSIVE ABYSS: A KANTIAN READING OF AESTHETIC JUDGMENT Fidan, Ayşe; Çırakman, Elif; Department of Philosophy (2026-9-30) This thesis aims to give an elaborate exposition of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic theory by discussing particularly its foundational difficulties within the “Analytic of the Beautiful” in the Critique of Judgment. The initial ...
A modern public space in twentieth century Ankara: Tracing the spatial layers of functions in Tandoğan Square and its surroundings Kulaksız, Nuri Cem; Altan, Tomris Elvan; Department of History of Architecture (2026-9-30) This thesis traces the processes that formed and transformed through the 20th century the Tandoğan Square and its surroundings as an example of modern public space in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. The spatial scope o...

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