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Dealing with return migration and its causes and consequences, it seems possible to provide a set... more Dealing with return migration and its causes and consequences, it seems possible to provide a set of different answers: target orientation (savings), family affairs, legal restrictions, being unable to reach the set goals and loosing future perspectives, ...

This study examines new forms of international migration and the strategies developed by “single”... more This study examines new forms of international migration and the strategies developed by “single” male migrants, by taking into account the effects of these strategies on other family members who are left behind, especially the wives. The main objective is to understand the experiences and strategies developed by “single” male migrants, their wives and their children during the migration process. The research area consists of five towns connected to two districts (Kulu and Cihanbeyli) located in Konya where a high rate of “single” male migration has been observed since the 1960s. The study analyzes the difficulties experienced by the wives who are left behind and are married through unregistered religious ceremonies formed within the network of traditional relations. Overall, marriage is treated as a migration strategy. “Single” male migrants marry European female citizens as an easy way to obtain work permissions. The migration experiences, which have influenced the family relation...

Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development

It is a very challenging attempt to illuminate the structures and processes of the difference bet... more It is a very challenging attempt to illuminate the structures and processes of the difference between civil and military attitudes in Turkey. The Turkish case is unique in many aspects because while Turkey is a Muslim country, which was founded on the historical tradition of Ottoman ...

Natural Hazards, 2011

In this paper, an integrated urban earthquake vulnerability assessment framework, which considers... more In this paper, an integrated urban earthquake vulnerability assessment framework, which considers vulnerability of urban environment in a holistic manner and performs the vulnerability assessment for the neighborhood scale, is proposed. The main motivation behind this approach is the inability to implement existing vulnerability assessment methodologies for countries like Turkey, where the required data are usually missing or inadequate for the decision-makers in prioritization their limited resources for risk reduction in the administrative units from which they are responsible for. The methodology integrates socio-economical, structural, coastal, ground condition, vulnerabilities (fragilities), as well as accessibility to critical services. The proposed methodology is implemented for Eskisehir, which is one of the metropolitans of Turkey. In the implementation of the proposed framework, geographic information system (GIS) is used. While the overall vulnerabilities obtained for neighborhoods are mapped in GIS, the overall vulnerabilities obtained for buildings are visualized in 3D city model. The main reason behind using different mapping and visualization tools for vulnerabilities is to provide better ways for communicating with decision-makers. The implementation of the proposed vulnerability assessment methodology indicates that an urban area may have different vulnerability patterns in terms of structural, socio-economical, and accessibility to critical services. When such patterns are

Climate and Development, Jun 27, 2023

International journal of disaster risk reduction, Jun 1, 2023

Sozial Extra, May 29, 2019

Zusammenfassung Die sozial-ökonomische Situation der Flüchtlinge, die aus Syrien in die Türkei ko... more Zusammenfassung Die sozial-ökonomische Situation der Flüchtlinge, die aus Syrien in die Türkei kommen, ist aus Menschenrechtssicht äußerst problematisch. Die deutsche und europäische Türkeipolitik ist aber kaum an dieser Problematik interessiert. Das Abkommen, das mit der Türkei geschlossen wurde, zielt einzig darauf hin, die Grenzen zu schließen, die Verletzungen auf der türkischen Seite duldend.

Mesleki Sağlık ve Güvenlik Dergisi (MSG), Feb 13, 2015

Laplage em Revista, Dec 8, 2020

Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi dergisi, Dec 15, 2010

... 131 Hanife&amp;amp;amp;#x27;nin Avrupa ülkelerindeki sosyal haklara yaptığı vurguya g... more ... 131 Hanife&amp;amp;amp;#x27;nin Avrupa ülkelerindeki sosyal haklara yaptığı vurguya görüşülenlerin çoğu katılmaktadır. ... Görüşülen kadınların göç sürecine, göç edebilme yolları ile gidilen ülkenin kurallarına dair oldukça bilgili oldukları da gözlenmiştir. ...

Europäischer Hochschulverlag eBooks, 2011

The present book gathers edited contributions from a conference which had been held end of 2010 i... more The present book gathers edited contributions from a conference which had been held end of 2010 in Ankara, Turkey. This event brought together scientists and trade unionists from several EU- and non EU-countries, exploring one of the major, though frequently underestimated challenges of societal integrity. This continuing debate of the experts of the European S.U.P.I.-Network focussed in particular on the more fundamental issues of precarity. As much as precarity is a matter of socio-individual concern, having severe repercussions on the life of an increasing number of people, it is moreover a development that fundamentally challenges. It questions many of the values claimed by enlightenment and capitalist revolutions as universal, including solidarity, mutual support and equality - though they are formally still claimed as valid; and moreover these developments are part of structural changes that easily fissure the contemporary mode of production. Does this mean the end of society? Or could it be a take-off for another renaissance

For an effective disaster risk mitigation plan and for building a society more resilient to natur... more For an effective disaster risk mitigation plan and for building a society more resilient to natural disasters, it is essential to understand the factors that are related to social vulnerability as an important dimension to social risk. This study aims to identify the associations between socioeconomic and socio-demographic household characteristics and earthquake related social vulnerability using survey data collected from 41,093 households in Istanbul. Machine learning models, namely: logistic regression, classification tree, random forest, support vector machine, naive bayes, artificial neural network, and K-nearest neighbours, were employed to classify households according to their social vulnerability status. Due to the disparity of class size for the outcome variable, subsampling strategies were applied for dealing with imbalanced data. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was found to have the optimal predictive performance when random majority under sampling was applied (AUC: 0.813). The results from the ANN method indicated that not having social security, living in a squatter house and having high risk of job loss after an earthquake were among the most important predictors for increasing social vulnerability risk. Additionally, the level of education, the ratio of elderly persons in the household, owning a property, household size, ratio of income earners, and having savings were associated with vulnerability. An open access R

New Technology Work and Employment, Nov 1, 2014

This article focuses on the complex network of control and consent through the articulation of te... more This article focuses on the complex network of control and consent through the articulation of technology and local culture in the workplace. The dynamics of this network are embedded in the interplay of global and local markets. The article explores these dynamics by focusing on the distinctive characteristics of a Central Anatolian city, Çorum, based on a case study conducted in Turkey. We observe how globalised patterns of control and consent are reproduced through the articulation of new technologies and the conservative culture specific to this locality. During the negotiations between employers and employees, this interplay plays a significant role in the construction of work realities. The consensual control produced within the framework of conservative values leads to a consensual hegemony in the organisation of labour process.

Journal of sustainable rural development, Sep 23, 2019

Sociologically, conflict is a "struggle over values and claims to scarce status, power and resour... more Sociologically, conflict is a "struggle over values and claims to scarce status, power and resources". Land, as a most valuable asset and a source of wealth and power, a basis for livelihood, a subject for geopolitical purposes, a matter of territorial importance, and a substance for cultural identity, is introduced as a subject of conflict in communal pastoral lands of the Milan nomadic tribe in Northwest part of Iran. Three actors are recognized in the field that have conflict over the lands; the State, nomads, and peasants. The main objective of this article is to understand contradictory interaction among the actors and analyze the source and dynamics of social conflict among them. To pursue this objective, theories of conflict including Dahrendorf (1959) and the differentiated meaning system approach are adopted. Methods: Applying the Qualitative method, six sub-tribes from Milan (located in winter pastures) and three peasantry villages (located in summer pastures) were selected as samples, and deep semistructured interviews were conducted. Results: According to results, it is revealed that conflicts are concentrated around economic, historical, and political incentives, but differentiated meaning systems are also the source of conflict and inconsistencies among the actors. Conclusion: Our study showed that pastures had a variety of meanings and values for actors: for the State, pastures had political, environmental, and economic importance while for peasants, they merely had economic importance and for nomadic groups, economic, cultural (identity), and territorial factors were prime impetuses. For actors, sources of conflicts, their solutions, and reconciliation strategies are also different and in most cases, they are contradictory.

EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, Apr 1, 2019

Springer eBooks, 2019

This study aims to shed light on various aspects of refugees’ lives in Turkey using mobile call d... more This study aims to shed light on various aspects of refugees’ lives in Turkey using mobile call data records of Turk Telekom, enriched with numerous local data sets. To achieve this, we made use of several statistical and data mining techniques in addition to a novel methodology to find home and work-time anchors of mobile phone users we developed. Our results showed that refugees are highly mobile as a survival strategy—a significant number of whom work as seasonal workers. Most prefer to live in relatively low-status neighborhoods, close to city transport links and fellow refugees. The ones living in these neighborhoods appear to be introverts, living in a closed neighborhood. However, the middle- and upper-class refugees appear to be the opposite. Fatih, Istanbul was found as an important hub for refugees. Finally, the officially registered refugee numbers do not reflect the real refugee population in Turkey. Due to their high mobility, refugees lag behind in keeping up-to-date information about their residential address, resulting in a significant discrepancy between the official numbers and the real numbers. We think that policymakers can benefit from the proposed methods in this study to develop real-time solutions for the well-being of refugees.