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    A historical sociology of disability: human validity and invalidity from antiquity to early modernity
    (Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2022) N/A; Bozkurt, Ozancan; Master Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
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    A metal workshop? Multi-hollow anvils at Taştepe obası in southeastern Konya
    (Brill, 2017) N/A; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Maner, Çiğdem; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 104427
    During the first campaign of the Konya Ereğli Survey Project (keyar) in 2013, c. 12 km north of the Bolkar Mountains, a site called Taştepe Obası just north of the village of Çayhan was surveyed. In between domestic houses and in the field of Taştepe Obası, four large stones with man-made small circular depressions were discovered. These rocks, known as multi-hollow anvils or multi-hollow mortars, are important indications that metal ores were dressed here. The proximity to the metal-rich Bolkar Mountains might indicate the presence of a metal workshop. Very similar multi-hollow anvils have been discovered in the vicinity of the Kestel mine, where they were used for ore dressing of cassiterite, the first stage in the preparation of the ore for the smelting process. This article will introduce the site of Taştepe Obası and consider it in the context of ancient metal workshops in the region and the mining activities in the Bolkar Mountains.
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    A new pilgrimage site at late antique Ephesus transfer of religious ideas in Western Asia Minor
    (Brill, 2020) N/A; Sewing, Katinka; Researcher; N/A; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED); N/A
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    A reevaluation for the Genoese period of the Galata Tower
    (Suna ve İnan Kıraç Vakfı Kültür ve Sanat İşletmesi, 2020) N/A; Sağlam, Hasan Sercan; Researcher; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED); N/A; N/A
    The Galata Tower has been witness to many historical events and has gone through multiple architectural phases over the course of its long life. Its Genoese origins began to receive scholarly attention particularly in the late eighteenth century and especially during the nineteenth century. In the meantime, a general consensus was reached about the history and architecture of the tower's Genoese period. However, this consensus was actually based on a few primary sources without any comprehensive approaches nor in-depth investigation. The tower's erroneous name, "Tower of Christ" (Christea Turris), during its Genoese period is perhaps the most widespread assumption in the secondary literature. A first construction by Anastasios I and a heightening around 1445/1446 are further related misconceptions. Despite the popularity of Galata as a research topic, these misconceptions have become anonymous and continuously repeated without being questioned. Moreover, slightly different arguments for the tower were put forward. In particular, when compared to later periods of the monument, the former name of the tower, its alleged Byzantine past, and especially the Genoese architectural identity of the present structure remain rather ambiguous in the light of all the arguments in the literature. For these reasons, this article presents a fundamental reevaluation for the Genoese period of the Galata Tower through virtually all of the primary sources and a small architectural survey. This article shows that there is no solid evidence of the supposed Byzantine period of the tower; that it was named as the "Tower of Holy Cross" (Turris Sancte Crucis) by the Genoese who built it, and its first structural alteration was probably executed by the Ottomans around 1453. / Galata Kulesi’nin uzun yaşamı, birçok tarihî olaya ve mimari evreye tanıklık etmiştir. Bu doğrultuda kuleye yönelik bilimsel araştırmalar on sekizinci yüzyılın sonunda ve özellikle on dokuzuncu yüzyılda yoğunlaşmış, yapının Ceneviz dönemi ve öncesine ilişkin başlıca argümanlar bu süreçte şekillenmiştir. Lakin başvurulan sınırlı sayıdaki birincil kaynak, kapsamlı bir bakış açısıyla ele alınmamış, bazı noktalar üstünkörü yorumlanmıştır. Bunlar arasında belki de en yaygın olanı, kulenin Ceneviz dönemindeki adının ikincil kaynaklarca yanlış bir şekilde “İsa Kulesi” (Christea Turris) zannedilmesidir. İlk inşasının I. Anastasios tarafından yapılması ve Ceneviz döneminde 1445–1446 civarında yükseltilmesi ise diğer yanılgılardır. Tüm bu görüşler, Galata’nın artık alışılmış akademik popülerliğine karşın pek sorgulanmamış ve zamanla anonimleşerek kuleye dair temel bilgilere dönüşmüştür. Bu esnada farklı birincil kaynaklar irdelenerek başka iddialar da öne sürülmüş ve sonuç olarak kuleye yönelik bilgilerde birtakım ikilikler ortaya çıkmıştır. Öyle ki, Galata Kulesi’nin Ceneviz öncesi dönemi, Ceneviz dönemindeki adı ve bunların yanında özellikle de mevcut yapının bu dönemden geriye kaldığı düşünülen kısmı, literatürdeki tüm argümanların ışığında ve anıtın daha sonraki dönemlerine kıyasla bir hayli muğlaktır. Dolayısıyla bu makale, Galata Kulesi’nin Ceneviz döneminin, tarihî ve mimari açılardan temel düzeyde bir yeniden değerlendirmesidir. Kayda değer bulgularsa kulenin Bizans dönemine uzanan bir geçmişi olduğuna dair ortada somut hiçbir verinin bulunmadığı; inşa edildiği Ceneviz dönemindeki isminin yalnızca “Kutsal Haç Kulesi” (Turris Sancte Crucis) olduğu ve ilk yapısal değişikliğini de Osmanlılar tarafından 1453 dolaylarında geçirdiğine işaret etmektedir.
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    A tale of ambiguity: citizenship, nationalism and democracy in Turkey
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) Keyman, Emin Fuat; Department of International Relations; Kancı, Tuba; Researcher; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A
    We argue that historically the official Turkish nationalism and citizenship regime have been marked by an ambiguity that arises from the simultaneous existence of - and repeatedly occurring swings between - the ethno-centric and civic-political understandings of citizenship. We also suggest that the concept of territoriality, which took precedence over other factors in the creation of a new state in 1923, has functioned as a hegemonic reference in the official conceptualisations of the Turkish nation and self. The territorial focus, over time, has been conflated with the ethnic conceptualisations of the nation: both become the underlining elements of the discourse of official nationalism in Turkey, and are utilised in the successive reformulations of citizenship into the 2000s. Through the analysis of schoolbooks and curricula, we further argue that the major oscillations in nationalism nevertheless coincided with the ruptures that characterised the making of modern Turkey: modernisation, democratisation, globalisation and Europeanisation.
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    A tale of two cities: Thebes and Chalcis in a world of change (ninth to fifteenth centuries)
    (Taylor and Francis, 2021) Department of Archeology and History of Art; Kontogiannis, Nikolaos; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 258781
    Central Greece during the Byzantine era has often been summarily and perhaps simplistically considered by earlier historians as a primarily agrarian backwater, coming to forefront only. Chalcis gradually came under Venetian rule, and served as an international maritime colony. These divergent political conditions also gradually influenced the civic conditions and the urban fabric of both cities. Between the ninth and the twelfth centuries, the “special bond” between two cities was achieved through a matrix of economic, social, and political features, which can be traced down to the level of urban neighbourhoods. In both cities, similar patterns emerge on the basis of material culture and the concentration of activities. The establishment and continuous use of Byzantine neighbourhoods despite the deficiencies in our knowledge of their boundaries, organization, and exact size seem to represent a conscious choice on the part of the inhabitants. Defensive walls played a primary role, defining the walled area as primary and that outside the walls as secondary.
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    After Gallipoli: empire, nation and diversity in multicultural Turkey and Australia
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) Jakubowicz, Andrew; Department of International Relations; İçduygu, Ahmet; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 207882
    Gallipoli has played a critical role in the formation of national identity, and remains a significant part of contemporary identities for both Turkey and Australia.1 This chapter explores the ways in which the development of a racialised or ethno-culturally bound modernity in Australia and Turkey has followed a similar path, notwithstanding the very great differences in the histories of the countries, their political geographies, and their contemporary challenges. However real and important such differences may be, the struggle to create a state that can encompass diversity while claiming singularity offers a shared contradiction. As Bacek Ince has observed in her study of Turkey’s struggle with citizenship and identity, the formation of a fully republican citizenship requires the assertion of ‘constitutional patriotism’, where membership of the nation and full participation can accommodate cultural and linguistic pluralism.2 The challenges for Australia are not dissimilar.
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    An inquiry into the linkage among nationalizing policies, democratization, and ethno-nationalist conflict: the Kurdish case in Turkey
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012) N/A; Department of International Relations; Mousseau, Demet Yalçın; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A
    This article analyzes the effects of nationalizing policies of the state, processes of democratization, and uneven socio-economic development on the rise of Kurdish ethno-mobilization led by the PKK terrorist organization since the 1980s in Turkey. Three features of the Turkish modernization context are identified as conducive for the rise and continuation of Kurdish ethno-mobilization: a) a nation-building autocratic state that resisted granting cultural rights and recognition for the Kurds; b) democratization with the exclusion of ethnic politics and rights; c) economic regional inequality that coincided with the regional distribution of the Kurdish population. It is argued that autocratic policies of the state during nation-building accompanied the development of an illiberal democracy and intolerance for cultural pluralism. These aspects of Turkish democracy seem to be incompatible with both the liberal and consociational models of democracy that accommodate ethnicity within multiculturalism.
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    An Ottoman order of Persian verse
    (Brill Academic Publishers, 2019) N/A; Department of Comparative Literature; Kim, Sooyong; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 52305
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    An unnoticed regimental diaconus in the correspondence of theodoret of cyrrhus
    (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014) Rance, Philip; Researcher; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED); N/A
    This short article examines the textual transmission of a letter written by Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus, in 432/3, in which he remarks that a member of the equites tertii stablesiani had previously delivered his correspondence to an episcopal colleague. Successive modern editors, puzzled by the term diaconum in the unique manuscript, proposed the emendations decanum or decurionem. The latter conjecture is found, unacknowledged, in the most recent edition of Theodoret's letters. Textual, historical and linguistic criteria corroborate the received reading and reveal that, as a result of these Editorial material interventions, an early reference to a deacon serving as a regimental chaplain has been overlooked. Correctly identified and contextualised, Theodoret's courier can take his place in future discussions of clergy within the late Roman army.