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 ...

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 ...

In this study, the usage value and cultural importance of the sweet sap/must, which is called gezo in the local language in the Southeastern Anatolia and Eastern Anatolia regions and is caused by a plant worm that ...

The Neolithic period is a stage in which the human relationship with nature was reshaped differently, livelihood strategies changed and social changes were experienced within communities. Rituals maintain order in society ...

Migration has been one of the important features of human communities in every period of history. Turkey has similarly had its share of historical changes. The industrial revolution and the increasingly important ...

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 ...