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Anti-tobacco control industry strategies in Turkey
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2018-02-26)
Background: Transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) penetrated the Turkish cigarette market due to trade and investment liberalization in the post-1980 period and eventually secured full control. Despite tobacco control ...
The moderation of Turkey's Kurdish left: the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018-10-20)
Moderation theory, within the political party context, has often been applied to European Socialists and Christian Democrats, as well as Islamic revivalists in the Muslim world. This article applies moderation theory to ...
Religious solidarity, historical mission and moral superiority: construction of external and internal "others' in AKP's discourses on Syrian refugees in Turkey
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018-10-20)
Turkey hosts the world's largest community of displaced Syrians. According to UNHCR, there are more than 3 million registered Syrians in Turkey as of 2018. Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Turkey's ...
Making winners: Urban transformation and neoliberal populism in Turkey
(Middle East Institute, 2018-12)
This study focuses on the distribution of the costs and benefits of Turkey's urban policy. Since 2002, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has embraced an ambitious form of capitalism that privatized the ...
Global risk aversion and emerging market return comovements
(Elsevier Science SA, 2018-12)
Utilizing the recently developed measure of global risk aversion by Xu (2017), we show that global risk aversion is a significant determinant of international equity correlations, consistently across all emerging markets ...
The political causes of party closures in Turkey
(Oxford Univ Press, 2014-04)
Political parties are the integral components of democratic systems. Without political parties, democratic systems cannot function. Yet, not all political parties embrace the existing 'rules of the game'. After the experience ...
Neighborhoods in development: Human development index and self-organizing maps
(Springer, 2013-01)
The Human Development Index (HDI) has been instrumental in broadening the discussion of economic development beyond money-metric progress, in particular, by ranking a country against other countries in terms of the well ...
Turkey's rise in the Greater Middle East: peace-building in the periphery
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2009)
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An empirical examination of the generalized Fisher effect using cross-sectional correlation robust tests for panel cointegration
(Elsevier Science BV, 2015-03)
This study examines the generalized Fisher hypothesis as applied to common stocks by using the recently proposed second generation panel cointegration tests. Unlike their predecessors, these new tests assume the existence ...
Turkey's Kurdish opening: Long awaited achievements and failed expectations
(Routledge Journals, 2014-01-02)
Turkish state actors have used mainly military means to first suppress the Kurdish rebellions and then to end the PKK violence from 1984 onwards. However, after the AKP came to office in 2002, the government challenged the ...
