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The main purpose of the article is to focus on the work of Ilija Garašanin, a prominent Serbian statesman and diplomat who devoted himself to the modernization of the Serbian state in the 19th century. The article will evaluate the progress of the Serbian sta…
We witness the existence of a female identity that is positioned and symbolized at the center of the identity constructions that constitute the triangulation point of Turkish modernization. The masculine mentality of modernization has primarily conceived of a…
Ahmet Mithat Efendi, one of the important journalists, writers and thinkers of the Tanzimat period, spent intense mental effort on the “East-West” dilemma, one of the most vital issues of his period. While he criticizes the “East” image produced by Orientalis…
After the transformation it underwent in the 1970s, capitalism is undergoing a new transformation today. In the first one, political economy ended and was replaced by indicator economy. In other words, there has been a transition from the rational production …
Visual Poetry, which appeals to the reader with advanced visual methods by minimizing traditional syntax rules, is defined as a school that liberates communication and interaction between literary and visual arts. This important innovation, which emerged with…
Among literary works, especially oral cultural works have the feature of reflecting the social spirit and perspective in a deep and effective way. These products, which have been passed through centuries of contribution, accumulation and censorship, are valua…
Following the military intervention on September 12, Turkey's Özal governments were known for their conservative political and cultural stance, while their liberal economic policies led to certain limitations in the arts and culture. However, this situation b…
From the 1830s onwards, British consuls in the Ottoman Empire undertook important responsibilities in accordance with Britain’s policy to preserve the integrity of the Ottoman Empire and contribute to the institutional and financial restructuring of the state…
As a Western art form, ballet entered Turkey’s art culture portfolio as an ideology of the modernization process. Its adoption as a foreign cultural element has been problematic and its social perception equally controversial. As an art form based on the danc…
In this essay, Fredric Jameson’s most recently published work, The Benjamin Files, will be introduced, and reviews of the book will be discussed. Fredric Jameson is an American literary critic, philosopher, and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for…
The comic book The Adventures of Tintin, created by Hergé, has been the target of much criticism as well as being famous. There are many traces of implicit and explicit imperialist and orientalist discourse in the cartoon albums criticised for being racist an…
This article examines how twenty households of refugees from Batumi who settled in Ladik, an administrative district of Amasya, after the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878, used the telegraph in their attempts to present their urgent grievances over such basic i…
Population registration books, tahrir (records) and temettuat (financial profits) registers and yearbooks are essential sources for studies dealing with the population of the Ottoman Empire. After the establishment of the Ottoman Empire, registrations were ar…
This study focuses on the forty martyrs of Sivas and the stories of Mor Behnam and Sarah, which have an important place in Syriac Orthodox Christianity. The forty martyrs of Sivas are frequently depicted in Byzantine and Syriac Orthodox art. In Byzantine art,…
Orientalism as a term defining the relationship between the East and the West had been in circulation before the seminal work of Edward Said with the same name. As Said theorized the systematic othering done by the West towards the East he touched upon multip…
Cultural memory, which might be observed in monuments, museums, historicised buildings, objects and even literary works, transmits to contemporary generations many traumatic events of history such as holocausts, famines, mass emigrations, starvation, pandemia…
This article aims to undertake a comprehensive analysis of a pivotal passage titled ‘Abdulhamid Dream’ from Oğuz Atay’s renowned novel, Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected), originally published in 1971. Widely regarded as one of the most significant literary wo…
It was the years following the Second World War, when Western European countries imported labor from underdeveloped countries, especially Mediterranean countries. Hundreds of thousands of Turkish workers immigrated to Europe as a result of bilateral labor agr…
The studies in cognitive and psycholinguistics have reported that the sentential position of converb clauses which are part of adverbial clauses is influenced by syntactic, semantic and discourse factors (Diessel, 2005, 2008; Verstraete, 2004; Wiechmann & Ker…
With the transition from chaos, the first sign of disorder, to the cosmos, human beings started to search for the "why", "how" and "result" of the creation of the universe and were able to find the answers to their questions within their own ecological worldv…