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ESSAYS ON ENERGY ECONOMICS AND SOLAR ENERGY Tüzün, Furkan; Derin Güre, Pınar; Department of Economics (2026-2-27) This dissertation explores the industrial adoption of solar energy in Türkiye through a three-essay holistic approach. As Türkiye aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2053, transitioning energy-intensive industrial sect...
The Implementation of New Public Management (NPM) Approach in European Transport Governance: Evidence from the TEN-T and Rail Freight Corridors (RFCs) Süloğlu, Bülent; Yavuz, Nilay; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2026-2-25) The European Union has undertaken a process of reform lasting decades in response to the historical inefficiency, fragmentation, and a shrinking competitiveness of European rail freight. This thesis argues that these refor...
TURKEY'S MILITARY RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION (1923-1939) Turhal, Abdullah; Boyar, Ebru; Department of International Relations (2026-2-25) This thesis examines the military relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union between 1923-1939 which were largely overlooked and underappreciated despite forming a significant part of the relations between the two count...
RURAL SETTLEMENT, SPACE AND ECONOMIC PRODUCTION IN LATE ANTIQUE SOUTHERN ASIA MINOR: CILICIA, PAMPHYLIA AND LYCIA (3RD – 6TH CENTURY AD) Aytekin, Çiğdem; Özgenel, Lale; Department of History of Architecture (2026-2-23) This dissertation explores the distribution, diversity, and spatial structuring of rural settlements in Southern Asia Minor during Late Antiquity, focusing on the provinces of Cilicia, Pamphylia, and Lycia, to examine the ...
LANGUAGE TEACHER IDENTITY: HOW EXPERIENCED TEACHERS CONSTRUCT AND NEGOTIATE THEIR IDENTITIES IN A NEW INSTITUTION Kızıl, Vedat; Daloğlu, Ayşegül; Department of English Language Teaching (2026-2-20) In this study, I explored how a group of six newly recruited English language teachers with prior teaching experience constructed and negotiated their professional identities in a new institutional community. In this proce...
READING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THROUGH SPATIAL, TEMPORAL AND SOCIAL WALKING PRACTICES OF ELDERLY RESIDENTS IN KÜÇÜKESAT Eriş, Nihal; Birler, Reşide Ömür; Department of Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments (2026-2-19) The current literature on walking behaviours of elderly residents suggests that several factors related to built environment, social life and city’s rhythm affects walking practices of elderly residents in an urban space. ...
RITUALS OF MODERNITY: MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISPLAYS, AND THE FORMATION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY Soysal, Ali Kaan; Atakuman, Çiğdem; Department of Settlement Archaeology (2026-2-19) This thesis investigates the evolving relationship between state-led archaeological narratives and public perception in Türkiye, focusing on the tension between authorized heritage discourse and contemporary identities. It...
BEYOND THE DARK AGE: UNDERSTANDING THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC SPACE IN CHALCOLITHIC ANATOLIA THROUGHSPATIAL INTERACTION MODELING (ca. 6000-3000 BCE) Sarmusak, Ezgi; Atakuman, Çiğdem; Department of Settlement Archaeology (2026-2-19) This thesis re-evaluates the “Dark Age” narrative of the Anatolian Chalcolithic (ca. 6000-3000 BCE), a period traditionally characterized as one of stagnation between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. By shifting the focus...
AGENTS, STRUCTURES AND FOREIGN POLICY: EXPLAINING CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN REGIONAL FOREIGN POLICY OF SAUDI ARABIA Ay, Cihan; Altunışık, Meliha; Department of International Relations (2026-2-18) This thesis aims to explain major predilections of Saudi Arabian foreign policy in the 21st century by proposing an analytical model based upon a critical realist resolution of the agent-structure debate in IR theory. By s...
Redesigning common compulsory foreign language courses in higher education: A needs-based approach Uğurlu, Mustafa; Daloğlu, Ayşegül; Department of English Language Teaching (2026-2-18) This study focuses on the improvement of Common Compulsory Foreign Language (CCFL) courses offered in English within Turkish higher education. Research indicates that many universities do not have a structured roadmap for ...
ENCOUNTERS WITH BUREAUCRACY: THE CASE OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN ANKARA Sadi, Hande İrem; Göksel, Asuman; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2026-2-18) This study examines women entrepreneurs’ encounters with bureaucracy in Ankara by conceptualizing bureaucracy not as a neutral chain of procedures but as a gendered structure reproduced through everyday routines. Building ...
Hope in the margins: Simon Stephens’s post-anthropocentric reconfigurations in Herons, Punk Rock, Wastwater, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Özoltulular, Muammer; Birlik, Nurten; Department of English Literature (2026-2-17) Writing amid the 21st-century financial, political, and environmental crises, Simon Stephens portrays a human-centred, dark, and brutal world. Alongside this anthropogenic bleakness, marginal spaces within his dramaturgy m...
NONNORMATIVE SUBJECTIVITIES IN ANGELA CARTER‘S FICTION: WISE CHILDREN, THE INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINES OF DOCTOR HOFFMAN AND THE PASSION OF NEW EVE Ahmetoğlu, Zehra; Birlik, Nurten; Department of English Literature (2026-2-16) Carter‘s suggestion of an alternative subjectivity marks her as a revolutionary writer as, through this alternative, she seems to point at new possibilities and new sites of existence in patriarchal discourse. However, thi...
THE EUROPEAN UNION’S RESPONSES TO THE RIVALRY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA OVER THE GLOBAL CHIP SUPPLY CHAIN Canıgüzel, Ezgi; Tanrısever, Oktay Fırat; Department of European Studies (2026-2-16) This thesis examines the European Union’s (EU) strategies, the European Chips Act (ECA) and the Critical Raw Materials Act’s (CRMA) effectiveness in responding to the technological leadership rivalry between the United Sta...
THE MILITARY AI COMPETITION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA: IS IT AN ARMS RACE? Karaca, Ulaş; Bahçecik, Şerif Onur; Department of International Relations (2026-2-13) The military utilization of AI technology has the potential to disrupt the international balance of power, especially the balance of power between the United States and China. Throughout the last decade, the term Artificia...
Multiple dominance by default, ellipsis by necessity: An analysis of hem...hem coordination in turkish Köse, Engin; Gracanın Yüksek, Martına; Department of English Language Teaching (2026-2-13) This dissertation explores hem…hem ‘both…and’ coordination (HHC) in Turkish. I argue that HHC never involves small coordination (i.e., coordination of DPs) but consistently conjoins structures that are at least as big as v...
ESSAYS IN ORGANIZATIONAL ECONOMICS WITH SOCIAL PREFERENCES Ayhan, Rengin Meryem; Küçükşenel, Serkan; Department of Economics (2026-2-13) This thesis studies incentive provision in multi-agent environments with other-regarding agents and informational frictions. The essays focus on which contract aligns incentives most efficiently under behavioral and inform...
EXPLORING ONLINE INTERCULTURAL NEGOTIATION AMONG ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS WITH STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE: A DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDY Özkal, Ceyhun; Karaman, Abdullah Cendel; Department of English Language Teaching (2026-2-11) This doctoral dissertation examines how Turkish English language learners (ELLs) who completed a one-semester Erasmus study-abroad (SA) (2023–2024) construct, perform, and reflect on identity through digital self-represent...
Predicting feedback literacy of pre-service teachers: A structural equation model Arslan, Büşra Zeynep; Çapa Aydın, Yeşim; Department of Curriculum and Instruction (2026-2-10) Feedback is crucial for pre-service teachers to enhance their learning and transform their teaching practices. Several studies have investigated pre-service teachers‘ feedback literacy across disciplines; however, few stud...
Being subject in other language: A Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective on migration Uçurum, Sultan Berfin; Gençöz, Tülin; Cantekin, Duygu; Department of Psychology (2026-2-10) This study explores the migration experiences of young adults who moved from Turkey to Germany and reported emotional difficulties related to migration, within a Lacanian psychoanalytic framework. Interpretative Phenomenol...

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