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Abstract
Given the difficulties in international intellectual property litigation, such as jurisdictional issues, choice of law, and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, arbitration and other dispute resolution mechanisms may be better tailored to resolve intellectual property disputes. Under Swiss law, these disputes are arbitrable to such an extent that arbitral tribunals seated in Switzerland and state courts are equally competent to rule on the validity of industrial property rights. This paper assesses the arbitrability of industrial property disputes under Turkish law, under which there is neither a specific statutory provision nor an official decision regarding their arbitrability. The paper concludes that disputes arising from industrial property rights should be considered arbitrable under Turkish law, provided that for disputes over the validity of industrial property rights, the arbitral tribunal decides on the industrial property rights' enforceability and the arbitral award has an inter partes effect. Although submitting industrial property disputes, especially those on employee inventions, to arbitration may in certain cases not be accepted due to the intention to protect the weaker party, employees are obliged to resort to arbitration for the resolution of their employee invention disputes under Turkish law. This paper also examines the resolution of employee invention disputes by way of arbitration from a comparative perspective.

I evaluate randomly varied neighborhood exposure to information campaigns regarding either executive performance, or increases in executive power, prior to a Turkish referendum on weakening checks and balances on the executive. The campaigns increased voter polarization over the referendum, and subsequently changed party affiliation in national and local elections over the next two years, leading to partisan polarization. My results suggest that, when voters disagree on whether increasing executive power is a good policy, more information can increase voter polarization. Finally, I conclude that because potential polarization is often ignored, the impact of information campaigns on civil society is underestimated. (JEL D72, D83, O17)

This study aims to determine the policy of the USSR toward the Kurds of Türkiye between the years 1945-1960. For this purpose, data were collected from archival documents, photographs, maps, videos, and Turkish, Russian, and English works. The study tests the hypothesis that the main reason for the change in the USSR's policy towards the Kurds of Türkiye was the victorious emergence of the USSR from World War II. It has been determined that the demands of the victorious USSR from Türkiye and the USSR-West struggle influenced the policy of the USSR towards the Kurds of Türkiye. Depending on the course of the rivalry between the USSR and the West in Iran, Greece, Iraq and Syria, the situation of benefiting from the countries has emerged in implementing the USSR's policy towards the Kurds of Türkiye. As a result, after the demands of the USSR, the rulers of the Republic of Türkiye directed the country toward the West. Despite the USSR's renunciation of the demands, the rulers of the Republic of Türkiye continued to remain in the Western camp. For these reasons, it has been determined that the USSR tried to take advantage of the Kurds in Türkiye and other countries against Türkiye and the West.