Suchergebnisse

Georgia's inclusion in the agenda of international relations can be assessed from various angles. To properly understand the current situation in Georgia, it is necessary to first assess its knowledge of geopolitics, geoculture and geoeconomics. This study analyzes the political situation in the South Caucasus at the beginning of the XXI century, the process of bilateral and multilateral integration of the region's states and the conditions necessary for the implementation of this process, the place and importance of the region in the "New Great Game". The article also examines the difficult issues in the South Caucasus, the Turkish-Russian competition in the face of promising potential, and the place and importance of this competition in their regional policy. The results of the Azerbaijani-Armenian war were analyzed in the regional policy of Turkey and Russia. The article aims to explain the dynamics and development of the region, where, in addition to global actors, there is serious competition, including the countries of the region.

Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye'de hisse senedi fonları piyasasının etkin bir şekilde çalışıp çalışmadığı, Bireysel Emeklilik Sistemi (BES)'teki fonların ve bankalarla ilişkili fonların diğer fonlara kıyasla performans farkına sahip olup olmadığının incelenmesidir. Araştırma kapsamında 2010-2022 döneminde 115 fona ait veri kullanılmıştır. Aylık frekansta fonların getirileri, standart sapmaları ve Sharpe oranları hesaplanarak birbiriyle kıyaslanmıştır. Araştırma bulgularına göre bankalarla ilişkili portföy yönetim şirketleri ve BES'teki fonlar bağımsız fonlara kıyasla daha düşük performansa sahip olmakta ve fon yönetim performanslarından bağımsız olarak müşterilere ulaşabilmekte ve fonlarını oldukça yüksek büyüklüklere ulaştırabilmektedirler. Araştırma sonuçları Türkiye'de hisse senedi fonları piyasasının etkin bir şekilde çalışmadığını ve bağımsız portföy yönetim şirketleri aleyhine bir yapının söz konusu olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır.

Bu çalışma Güney Çin Denizi'nde Çin-ABD rekabeti üzerinedir. Rekabetin bölgede belirginleştiği iddiasından yola çıkarak, Güney Çin Denizi'nin neden iki devlet arasında giderek artan bir rekabete sahne olduğu sorusuna cevap aramaktadır. Altı çizilen soru çerçevesinde çalışma öncelikli olarak tehdit algısındaki sürekliliğin Güney Çin Denizi rekabetinde ana faktör olduğunu iddia etmektedir. Tehdit algısı kavramsallaştırmasından hareketle ABD ve Çin nezdinde Güney Çin Denizi'ni bir rekabet alanı haline getiren temel noktaları ortaya koymaktadır. Bu tehditleri her iki devletin stratejik yaklaşımları ve bu yaklaşımların ulusal güvenlik belgelerine yansımaları üzerinden ele almaktadır. İkinci önemli nokta olarak tehdit algısındaki sürekliliğin jeo-stratejik hedeflere ve adımlara yansımasını ele almakta ve iki devleti bölgede karşı karşıya getirme etkinliğine sahip olan faktörleri tartışmaktadır. Kazanım ve kayıp denkleminde ABD ve Çin'in bölgede nasıl konumlandığını ele alırken, bu konumun birer rekabet unsuruna nasıl dönüştüğünü tartışmaktadır.

The attempt and competition of the Industrial Revolution to find new markets brought the Danube River and its hinterland into the world capitalist system. Danube governments such as Serbia, Wallachia, and Moldavia followed a balanced policy between Ottoman-Austria and Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries. However, following the Crimean War, the region has become an area of economic, political, and military competition between France and England. After the Crimean War, the liberalization of commercial shipping on the Danube and its branches to all nations made these waters attractive to Western shipping navigation companies. The big Powers like Austria, Russia, France, and Great Britain initiated competition and risks which deeply affected the region. The research setup is on a new technology entering the region and the French capital investments and competition spreaded fort he first time through this technology. In this context this study attempts to explore the rivalries of French merchants and investors to expand in the Danube River and its hinterland. It especially deals with the steamship management attempts of the ambitious and adventurous naval officer Captain Michel André François Bonerin Magnan (Aubagne 1819-Paris 1866).

Tourism has links with many fields such as politics, history, geography, economy, sports and culture. One of the fields it has links with is literature. Increasing competition gives rise to an expanding demand for alternative tourism destinations for tourists as destination managers incline to promote alternative tourism sites. One of these tourism types is literary tourism, which includes visits to destinations related to literature, that has recently become a popular attraction in Turkey for example there are Literature Museum Libraries which are supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Turkey. This research aims to evaluate civil structures, mainly Ankara Mehmet Akif Ersoy Literature Museum Library which was built in the name of Mehmet Akif Ersoy who is a national poet, in relation to literature tourism. The activities for tourism carried out within the scope of literary tourism contribute positively to the region economically and helps to promote the area. Visiting the areas where Mehmet Akif Ersoy, the writer of the National Anthem, spent his life, being able to see his belongings, his handwriting, first edition books and photographs of that period, helps to establish an emotional bond between the tourists and the poet, and to inform the tourists about the conditions and the feelings with which these works were written and can be concluded that it is very valuable in terms of forming ideas.

This study examines the complex dynamics of communication in the changing field of journalism influenced by the use of media. It specifically focuses on how thoughts and perceptions are expressed in this evolving landscape. Information and communication technologies significantly influence journalism by rapidly disseminating news, updates, and societal impacts. Utilizing critical discourse analysis, the study aims to reveal systematic language usages and uncover latent meanings beyond news texts. Focused on the 2023 Turkish Presidential Election, news texts from four prominent international newslets Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, and Euronews are analyzed. The comprehensive analysis of international media coverage investigates the interplay of linguistic and thematic choices in shaping narratives. With a dual focus on macro and micro levels of discourse, the study uncovers diverse approaches among foreign media outlets. Each outlet adopts a distinctive thematic approach at the macro level, emphasizing key figures and sociopolitical contexts. Al Jazeera spotlights competition, BBC underscores post-election polarization, CNN focuses on Erdogan's victory, and Euronews provides insights into national challenges. Visual elements, like photographs, contribute significantly to framing events, offering nuanced political messaging. Micro-level analysis explores linguistic choices, syntax, and rhetoric, emphasizing the active voice to underscore leaders' agency. Deliberate use of the passive voice in presenting election results maintains a neutral tone. The way sentences are structured and the cause-and-effect connections help readers understand political developments by providing context. The study underscores the importance of media literacy in decoding political event representations, emphasizing the multifaceted complexities of media discourse.

Based on the existing literature, the study tests the relevance of electoral and intra-party alliance concerns on party organization change for the AKP in its 2017 District Congress. We believe that both the electoral and intra-party alliance concerns the party faced in 2017, make it a suitable case to test the basic hypothesis of the study. The dataset used in the analysis consists of secondary data on 971 districts present in Turkey. District presidency change is employed as the key independent variable to estimate organization change. The result of the logistic regression indicates that the effect of increasing percentage of swing voters and members of the former alliance, despite being valid, have moderate positive effects on the AKP's decision to change its organization. The insignificancy of the electoral safety of the party in the district reveals that in 2017 the AKP changed its organization regardless of the nature of the electoral competition it faces. Interestingly, results indicate that socioeconomic development and ethnic presence in districts are also significant factors that constrain organization change in the AKP. Based on these results we suggest that change in party organization becomes a more difficult issue in parties with strong clientelistic networks where political parties built electoral support through the conditional distribution of resources to voters. Similarly, ethnicity also acts as a constraint due to the peculiarity of the relations political parties develop with these groups. As such clientelism and ethnicity seem to have constraining effects on the abilities of parties to change their organizations. The results highlight the necessity of further research to generalize the validity of the effectiveness of clientelism and ethnic groups on political parties' organization change on different settings.