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This article focuses on the death of Suphi Kaner by suicide in 1963, an incident that overlaps with the rapid growth of the domestic film industry in Turkey. Kaner's tragic death is discussed in popular literature solely in relation to his alcohol addiction, his possible depression, and his inability to cope with sudden stardom, leaving almost unmentioned the key role of the boycott call of the Producers Association against him. In 1963, the power struggle between the producers and the star actors was very visible. Within the framework of this power struggle, producers made a boycott statement about Kaner, for allegedly interrupting the shooting of a film. I approach the chain of events that concluded with Kaner's suicide as an early example of labour disputes in Turkish cinema. This case demonstrates that the scope of labour disputes in film industries encompasses even star actors who are often considered as a privileged class. I argue that Kaner's suicide could have been avoided by fairer employment conditions, and if the Producers Association had not called for the boycott. To examine the case, I make use of a variety of historical texts including memoirs, auto-biographies, news pieces, interviews, and commentaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neoliberal borders inconspicuously morph, now facilitating the free passage of goods and citizens from rich countries, now violently excluding irregular travelers departing from impoverished and repressive environments. In turn, unauthorized migrants demonstrate narrative and performative craft(iness) by tactically shapeshifting to fit themselves into the highly particular mold of a "worthy refugee." The 2019 Arabic-language memoir Anthems of Salt, which chronicles its Algerian author's attempt at clandestine migration to northern Europe via Turkey and Greece, provides a backdrop for recent scholarship on twenty-first-century borders and the so-called refugee crisis. A close reading of Ramdani's account, in conjunction with examples from fieldwork as a volunteer for asylum aid organizations in Greece, provides a view of what is produced in the interaction between morphing borderscapes and shapeshifting migrants—namely, incarnations of the very essentialized images that states project onto their unwanted entrants. But candid border-crossing narratives like Ramdani's are produced as well, revealing the many cross-territorial linkages through which borderlines slice. These linkages suggest the potential for alternative cartographies that challenge dominant notions of nation-statehood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: This paper is concerned with the concept of reflexive agency through the biography and memoirs of Georg Mayer, a Jewish businessman who immigrated to Turkey before 1945 and lived there for almost 40 years. This paper aims to explore reflexive agency using the concepts of structural conditions (socioeconomic background), contextual stimuli (activation of reflexivity) and individual perspectives at different points in life (main concerns, reflection on the past, projects and decision-making). Design/methodology/approach: This paper is developed using qualitative research methods, analyzing a variety of sources including books, papers, biographical materials and personal memoirs. Primary sources are three books written about him and Mayer Stores using the method of oral history. Moreover, Mayer's memoirs, which provided rich information about his observations of people, acts and culture, were analyzed. Findings: Several conclusions can be drawn. While there are typologies for reflexive agency, it is found that a person can fit into several modes at different times and/or at the same time. Another finding is that an individual's social network is an important factor for his/her reflexive agency. When immigrating to another country with a contextual discontinuity and structural change, an established community and economic opportunities are important factors. A strong stimulus such as a life threat can be a force majeure and trigger for individuals to take risks, affecting their abilities of reflexivity. Originality/value: This paper presents a unique case study that examines immigration from Western countries before 1945. This paper tries to provide detailed information about social context, including critical milestones, bring the concepts of culture, identity, migration and reflexivity together by analyzing an atypical business figure through his biography and personal memoirs, and use narrative analysis to explain how a reflexive person can act in contextual discontinuity, hence showing how structural, cultural and personal emergent properties can be understood together. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Late Ottoman intellectual Mehmed Akif (1873–1936) was for decades depicted in Turkish public discourse in generic terms as an Islamist radical opposed to the secular nation state. Through Akif's poetry, articles, translations, correspondence from his exile in Egypt, and biographical detail revealed in the scattered memoirs of students and colleagues, this article offers a reappraisal of his thought as a leading Muslim modernist who adapted the thinking of Egyptian religious scholar Muḥammad ʿAbduh (1849–1905) to an Ottoman and then Turkish audience in the formulation of an early, prescient compromise between religion and nationalism. The article also notes remarkable similarities between Akif and Indian thinker Muḥammad Iqbāl (1877–1938), whom Akif was instrumental in introducing to Arab audiences, and suggests that, once political Islam had later gained currency across all fields of public life, Akif became an alternative to nationalist icon Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924) as an intellectual symbol of the republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of the revolution of the Republic of Turkey is a lesson that conveys to generations the war of independence of the Turkish nation, our national heroes. The aim of this study is to examine the literary products contained in the 8th-grade history of revolution and Kemalism textbook taught by the Ministry of National Education in our country in the 2020-2021 academic year. Document analysis from qualitative research methods was used in the study. The data were analyzed by content analysis. As a result of the study, the textbook is quite rich in literary works, but the book mostly uses the same types of literacies. On the other hand, it has been found that genres such as songs and folk songs that will feed students emotionally have never been used, and literary genres such as memoirs, stories, and novels have not been adequately used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This memoir of Koç University Library Director Jane Ann Lindley was written by her sister. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Prussian tradition in Ottoman military modernization began with Captain Helmuth von Moltke. Approximately a century after the activities of the delegation headed by Helmuth von Moltke in the Ottoman army, advisors from Germany were re-assigned by the Republic of Turkey at various levels of the army. Compared to previous military delegations, German consultants, whose duties were limited to lecturing at military academies on paper, resigned from their official duties in Germany. They have signed special agreements with the Turkish Armed Forces that do not bind their own countries and military institutions, and have served in Turkey for a wage higher than the salary they earned in their country. Between 1925 and 1939, apart from the military attachés in the German embassies in Turkey, 36 German served in Turkish Military and Naval War Schools. Among these, Hilmar von Mittelberger is the most prominent name with his works that he left behind in a short period of 7 years, with his last position in Germany with the rank of lieutenant general. The German general, who returned to his country with the beginning of the Second World War, attended the talks about Turkey at the headquarters of his country's general staff, where he informed the generals of the German army about Turkey's defense power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is the memoir that I wrote because of death of my dear professor Prof. Dr. Berin Yurdadoğ who is one of the leading lecturers of librarianship education in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is the memoir that I wrote because of passed away of my dear professor Prof. Berin Yurdadoğ, who is one of the pioneering lecturers, head of lecturers of librarianship education in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is an analysis of Afghan migrants’ journeys to Turkey. The journey is defined as a form of narrative constructed by migrants encompassing long periods of immobility punctuated by shorter instances of travel. This conceptualisation of journey helps transcend the dichotomies associated with the journey such as origin and destination. The article first documents the conditions and nature of irregular travel of Afghan migrants to Turkey focusing particularly on the section of travel between Iran and Turkey. It demonstrates that the arrival of most participants to Turkey had been preceded by non-linear travel that involves uncertainty and long periods of immobility. The article then focuses on the role of journeys in the migration process, specifically as a form of narrative and a space for transformation. The construction of narratives on the journey is also important both as a skill and an agentic action that gives meaning to the migration process as a whole. Finally, the transformative potential of the journeys for participants is illustrated both in terms of the impact of the journey on migration decisions in Turkey and the ability to acquire and demonstrate different skills and autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This is the memoir that I wrote because of death of Sezen Tan who is one of the pioneers of university librarianship in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The memoirs of Paul, archdeacon of Aleppo, written after travelling to the Muscovite Court in the fund-raising journey of his father Makarios el-Za’im Patriarch of Antioch, provide a unique travel account from a number of perspectives. Despite having received some scholarly attention for his travels in Russia and the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, Paul's role as a non-Muslim Ottoman traveller of the Ottoman Empire is a topic that remains to be tackled. Analysing Paul's ability to preserve a number of diverse elements in his identity without allowing them to conflict constitutes the broader purpose of this essay. Therefore, a tri-partite approach towards his Orthodox, Syrian and Ottoman identities has been adopted with a particular focus on his Ottoman identity which has often escaped the attention and interest of scholarship on Paul of Aleppo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Today many inhabitants of İstanbul do not know the fact that the wounded who were brought to the cities from the Çanakkale front and who died in the hospitals while receiving treatment are buried in the war cemeteries at Edirnekapi and Sakizağaci as well as in the Karacaahmet Cemetery. This situation can be seen clearly in the newspapers of the time, in the relevant archives and in memoirs. In newspapers the building of memorials for the war dead and the organisation of cemeteries was put on the agenda, and the visits of war cemeteries by committees who came to İstanbul in order to make the trip to the front were continuously being reported. Besides, comparison of lists of the deceased from the hospitals with the names of the war dead in the cemeteries provides documentation for many war dead from Çanakkale. Indeed, in the sources it is specified that 150.868 wounded and ill persons were brought from the front to the hospitals. Another important aspect is the treatment of the wounded in these hospitals and their condition after the treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article looks at different national and cultural identities created by the Gallipoli war in Turkey. It examines memoirs, diaries and letters of the Turkish and allied soldiers. It discusses the presence of prejudice, antagonism and cultural solipsism among soldiers during the war. The identities of the Turkish and Anzac soldiers during the war are also recalled.

The acceptance of memoir as a genre in Turkish literature begins with the Tanzimat period. The authors of the Tanzimat help in defining the memoir as a genre by comprehending the genres and writing about it. By doing this, they intersect with other genres such as history, autobiography, biography, diary and letters. In this article while we will be focusing on how Tanzimat writers describe the genre of memoir, we will try to compare memoir with the other genres. Thus, the attitude and perception of the writers about the genre of memoir and interrelations among the genres will be disclosed.The acceptance of memoir as a genre in Turkish literature begins with the Tanzimat period. The authors of the Tanzimat help in defining the memoir as a genre by comprehending the genres and writing about it. By doing this, they intersect with other genres such as history, autobiography, biography, diary and letters. In this article while we will be focusing on how Tanzimat writers describe the genre of memoir, we will try to compare memoir with the other genres. Thus, the attitude and perception of the writers about the genre of memoir and interrelations among the genres will be disclosed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the memoirs of Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha, (1478-1546) who was the commander of Ottoman navy during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, as a common text in literature and history teaching. The memoirs provide colorful and thought provoking materials for college students. The way the author uses the language, the fiction like structure of the memoirs, the multidimensional relations between the head of the navy and rulers in Africa, the decision making process of Barbaros make the memoirs a precious text for teaching Turkish history and literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay it is aimed to publish the three Turkish dead complaint texts from Adana, those the execution of the sons from Kibaroğulları, a Turkish family, due to the Turkish-Armenian fight in the year 1909. The dead complaint texts composed by a relative of Kibaroğulları named Bahar Savaş from Adana recorded by one 95 years old person and are published for the first time here. There are 6 versions to this dead complaint, of which three are shown here as comparison material: the version of İsmail Görkem is the most extensive. Those the dead complaint underlying Turkish-Armenian fight of 1909 is here checked by further historical documents. A consistent counterpart for the verbally delivered dead complaint texts, exactly the same as Öztunas remarks form the memory-moderate excessive quantity of the memoirs of Cemal Paşa and Veron Dumehjian as a parallel to those from a German history dictionary. The dead complaint "Kibarların Destanı" proves innocence of the Turks who are executed and criticizes the attitude of the governor Cemal Pascha and the policy of the government at that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A biography of 18th-century Polish physician Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa is presented. Pilsztynowa lived as a Christian woman in a male-dominated Muslim society and as a female doctor in a male-dominated medical profession. She wrote her memoir during the power of the Ottoman empire. She left for Istanbul, Turkey, to gain fame and fortune as the court physician to the Sultan' harem.

This is the memoir that I wrote because of death of my dear professor Prof. Dr. Berin U. Yurdadoğ who is one of the leading lecturers of librarianship education in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is the memoir that I wrote because of death of my dear professor Prof. Dr. Berin Yurdadoğ who is one of the leading lecturers of librarianship education in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is the memoir that I wrote because of death of my dear professor Prof. Dr. Berin Yurdadoğ who is one of the leading lecturers of librarianship education in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]