This study explores the ethnic identification of Kazakhs living in Istanbul, Turkey who settled here in the beginning of the 1950s. Today their approximate number is 20.000. The work is going to discuss and analyse discourses ...

Every year, more than two million Iranian tourists travel to different cities in Turkey. In these different destinations, they gain different experiences. However, since no serious research has been done on them so far ...

Certain events that creates an idea that justice has not been served as it should be, has a feature which creates an obligation to adapt for the groups of people affected by those events. In this context, this thesis focuses ...

Traditionality has long been perceived as the opposite of modernity and it has been overshadowed in areas where modernity has spread. However, many traditional healing practices have been carried on from ancient times to ...

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the cultural structure formed by directing the concept of liminality to the problematical areas that emerged after the crime of forced disappearances. It has been mentioned that ...

Hellenistic-Roman Period studies in Anatolia were usually focused on cities and material culture. This study is aimed to obtain mortality practices and demographic data about rural settlements based on human skeletal remains ...

Socio-economic conditions in the early stages of life shape body size and proportions. Studies have shown that individuals in advantaged groups are always larger, while those in disadvantaged groups are smaller. However, ...

Several studies worldwide, by applying different methods, have investigated different aspects of intentional headshaping and, especially in the last decades, have tried to elaborate standardised quantitative analysis ...

Infectious diseases have historically caused pandemics or epidemics, leading to significant social and genetic changes in human populations. As a result, the history of infectious diseases has attracted the interest of ...

Anatolia has been home to several human populations since the Paleolithic period and has been a bridge between Europe, Asia, and Middle East. Bioarcheological studies conducted in Anatolia provide significant information ...