Projects

The Mamluk Sultanate was an Islamic regime that ruled over Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. While the population at large was Arab and spoke Arabic, its ruling elite was not: imported as military slaves or mamluks from their Central Asia, these were Turkic or Circassian by language and ethnicity. Having changed their nomadic homeland for a settled life in an Arabo-Islamic environment, this elite was commonly believed to have shed its ethnic ...

Histomonosis or blackhead disease represents a high unmet economic burden for the poultry industry (turkey and chicken). It is caused by the protozoan parasite Histomonas meleagradis. In the absence of preventive and therapeutic options for this disease, the current proposal aims to identify new drug candidates for this unmet need in veterinary medicine.

This project seeks to find out how foreign assistance in the fields of culture, religious revival and education change regions ravaged by inter-ethnic violence and state breakdown, and how such foreign assistance is perceived locally. My case study is the assistance provided from the Turkish Republic to Bosnia-Herzegovina, and local responses to it. The empirical research will focus on Turkish aid in the areas of higher education, religious ...

The presence of immigrants has set off a debate on ‘who is in and who is out’ the protection of the welfare state. In this respect, migrants are easily seen as a strain for economy and welfare state. Surprisingly, most research about attitudes toward government intervention and welfare state is based on a majority perspective, while the attitudes of ethnic minorities has been largely neglected. Ethnic minorities have however a remarkable dual ...

What do Turkish migrants think of family reunification procedures? Which strategies do they employ to be joined by their family members? How do they cope with changing policies? Classical legal research on family reunification does not take migrants’ perspectives into account, whereas in sociological research, laws and policies play only a marginal role. This socio-legal study adopts the perspective of the migrant ‘users’ of laws and ...

The European Union increasingly looks to outsource its international responsibility to protect refugees to third countries. Its policy space is limited, however, by international refugee and human rights law. This project assesses legal and actual refugee protection in Turkey and Morocco, in order to formulate recommendations for national protection frameworks and EU external migration policy, in line with international law.

The aim of this dissertation is to provide a legal history of translation in Turkey from the perspective of censorship of translated books on grounds of propagating communism.

Censorship, its patterns of operation and the imposition of censorship measures vary according to the cultural and social context in which censorship is practiced: It goes without saying that what constitutes the basic target of the censor in a certain country may ...

Our current knowledge of Late Prehistoric (8000-2000 BC) communities in Anatolia is primarily based on evidence from a number of well-known settlements in areas suitable for agriculture. Next to nothing is known about sites in other landscape units such as marginal mountainous areas. The proposed research aims to fill this gap in knowledge by shedding light on how different landscape units were incorporated into the cultural landscape, ...

The Mamluk Sultanate was a regime that ruled over medieval Egypt and Syria, in which the power over the Arabic populace lay with a Turkic- or Circassian-speaking elite that hailed from Central Asia. The research rethinks the linguistic and ethnic dimensions of this eliteU+2019s identity as discursive constructs, hereby fusing the historica land the sociolinguistic approach.