Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken / Journal of World of Turks

25-39

Authors: Ahmet BEŞE - Nazila HEİDARZADEGAN

This article attempts to examine how Middle Eastern Americans settled in America in pursuit of happiness, a better life, and liberty, and the results of their expectations. Culture and religion play a significant role in lives of Middle Eastern Americans and actively effect people’s attempts to be Americanized and forfeit their authenticity. Such cultural conflicts cause them to feel fragmented, split, or sometimes yearn for the days back in their homelands. People in diaspora, mostly fled from local communities, are culturally hybridized while attempting mimicry.

67-81

Authors: Evren EKİZ - Hakkı YAZICI

Thermal tourism, a kind of health tourism, is a type of tourism which meets water, sanitation, hygiene, housing and transportation needs of people through hot and cold spring water. Along with many thermal tourism centres in Turkey, Afyonkarahisar is an important thermal tourism centre as well. In addition to thermal resources, the province has natural and cultural values which are also important tourism sources. One of the prominent natural and cultural values is Frig Valley. Including visiting creations which arose as a result of geology-human relations and geologic and geomorphologic formations; the Frig Valley, has an important potential in terms of geo-tourism facilities. In this study, it was aimed to analyze geo-tourism potential of Afyonkarahisar province together with thermal tourism. Within this context, firstly, literature review; and later field study were carried out. In the light of these studies, the results indicated that the awareness about geo-tourism needs to be raised and geo-tourism needs to be planned together with thermal tourism as a whole.

109-133

Authors: Bilginer ONAN

The study which is based on brain-based approach to teaching as a mother language consists of two main parts. In the first part of the study, education systems having been performed in the world until the appearance of brain-based approach have been mentioned. In this context, the behavioural and cognitive approaches have been emphasized; constructıvıst approach developed in the brain-based approach was mentioned. In this way, reasons and conditions producing the understanding of brain-based approach have been determined. In the second part of the study, points to consider when performing the brain-based approach at teaching Turkish as mother language have been discussed. In this context, some points such as question as a balance tool during learning process, detailing process, limited process power of short-term memory, functions of episodic and semantical memories during mental preparation, communication environment and feeling of trust in learning process, cognitive function examples about the subject in learning process, process of data processing, graphic editors and images, functions of the right brain hemisphere and metaphor language's impact on learning process have been emphasized. Turkish courses have significant tools which can form basis for application of the brain-based approach strategy. Different types of text are the leading of these tools. Texts with different type characteristics as a teaching material are considered as significant tools in order to turn Turkish courses into a brain compatible process.

151-169

Authors: Elvan YALÇINKAYA - Yakup AZRAK

The aim of the study is to find out the opinions of social studies teachers on children councils. Phenomenology model, which is one of the qualitatative methods, was employed for the study. The data of the study was collected through semi-structured interview with 20 social studies teachers in 7 different secondary schools. Content analysis method was used to analyze the data. According to the results of the study, the teachers generally find children councils positive and they think that they help children improve democracy consciousness. They also add that children councils are an opportunity to use their rights of participation but they are not practiced commonly and the number of councils is not enough.

189-204

Authors: Halil İbrahim ŞAHİN

This article was written in order to determine the impact of Âşık Sümmânî who he is one of the representatives of the Erzurum minstrelsy tradition in the minstrel tradition. Âşık Sümmânî is a minstrel that has a unique way and style in eastern Anatolia and Erzurum minstrelsy surroundings. This shows that he is a minstrel with high strength and particularly the creative power of art. He has established himself with unique “ağız” or “tavır”, “atışma”s with a strong minstrel of the period, and still unique content and stylistic features. Minstrelsy understanding and application of Sümmânî was continued by minstrels representing his “kol” after the Sümmânî’s death. In article, as discussed further Sümmânî’s “ağız” at the same time were evaluated effects of Sümmânî's poems and stories on the traditions.

221-238

Authors: Savaş SERTEL - Sabri MENGİRKAON

Located in the Middle East, Syria is an Arab state, whose history goes back to ancient times. One of the oldest civilizations, Egypt is located between the Anatolian and Mesopotamian civilizations. Syria remained under the rule of the Ottoman Empire for almost 400 years. However, after the WWI, the country went under the French mandate. Syria won its independence in 1946. The country faced several military coups between 1949 to 1970, sometimes one military coup within another one. Some of the coups lasted only one week. In 1970 Hafez al-Assad, who was a member of the Ba’ath Party, took over and started a stable dictatorial era. During the 28 March 1962 coup, one of those undermining the already weak democracy in Syria, the Damascus radio made propaganda all day long praising the coup. In this study, we examine sections of the broadcasts on the Damascus radio, which had become the propaganda means of the 28 March 1962 coup, followed closely by the Turkish Foreign Affairs. In the broadcasts, the coup was praised on the whole, and the reasons for the coup as stated by the military were tried to be dictated upon the public. Moreover, the overthrown government was blamed for treason and serving imperialism. By doing so, they tried to discredit the old regime and emphasized that they were the rescuers and the ally of the public. With statements and propaganda far from being credible, they threatened those who did not obey the curfew and said anyone taking part in demonstrations would be severely punished. In this way, they tried to suppress and intimidate the general public. Thus the so-called populist coup was actually made against the public for the claimed "public welfare".

255-270

Authors: Özlem TEKİN

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the poetry of Zafer Şenocak and to uncover the essential characteristics and forms of his poems in order to position Şenocak's poetry within the German literature. As a first step, the literary work of Zafer Şenocak and the importance of his poetry in general will be discussed. As a second step, a number of poems will be analyzed in the context of the lyrical oeuvre of the author thus pursuing the ‘writing myth’ of the poet. In conclusion, as the final step, the poetry of Zafer Şenocak will be positioned within the context of German literature.

289-305

Authors: Miraç Burak GÖNÜLTAŞ

Child sexual abuse has detrimental effects on both psychological and sociological development of children. In recent years, attention of sexual abuse and abuser has increased because of missing and abducted children. According to literature, sexual abusers are more opportunist and agile than offenders of other crime types. Academic researches related to sexual absusers aim to understand how to sexual abusers groom children and their methods. Therefore these studies intend to prevent sexual abuse, because sexual abuse harms victim seriously and irreversibly. The present study is compilation in that the researches conducted in this field are gathered in context to modus operandi and sexual grooming. Thus, it aims to remark attention to this field and to present some proposal for the prevention of sexual abuse in our country.

327-344

Authors: Muhammet Nurullah CİCİOĞLU

The beginning of XIX and XX centuries is accepted as a significant process in formation of Cossack written literature in its literature history. Initially, the activities to carry the works belonging to Turkic-Islamic literature to people in Cossack Turkish attracts the attention that literate folk poets attained the facility of printing press from the beginning of XIX century. In parallel with this situation, the foundation of modern Cossack literature are laid with the works that intellectuals graduating from madrassas giving education with Usul-ü Cedit (Modern Method) put forward in Cossack-Russian schools. During this process, it is possible to see the effect of Ottoman press on both parties. We see that some works in the form of folk tales and menakıpname published in Istanbul spread throughout the region over Kazan and that they were rewritten in Cossack Turkish. On the other hand, the second group was in the effort of supporting the enlightening period and education reforms started by them with works printed in Istanbul about different fields. In this study, the process of emerging from Cossack written literature was given setting relations with works written in Ottoman Turkish and tangible data about this relation by listing some of Ottoman books present in two great libraries of Kazakhstan.

357-371

Authors: Vedi AŞKAROĞLU

Lord of the Flies is an anti-utopic (dystopic) novel by the English author William Golding, who wrote about how human’s primitive aspect can peep out by portraying kids whose ages vary from 5 to 12 on a deserted island. That kids are chosen as the characters of the novel makes it possible to observe in an empirical way the human nature in its nakedness far away from civilization and what it offers with its norms, education and social intitutions. The island, as a space, is significant for it offers a clear vision of how primitive instincts can appear when there is no outside interference. In our article, first we have made a theoretical discussion on primitive aspect of humans and then analysed how they might become savage in a setting away from civilization. In our analysis, we have found out that human nature is likely to transgress into savagery in a setting devoid of laws, moral norms and social institutions. The reason why we have chosen such a topic is directly related to a need to better understand the recent devastating violance and hatred, which ravage our world and close geography in particular.

395-419

Authors: Ülkü YANCI

In this study, the methods used in the appointment of mudarris, who make up the backbone of the madrasah system in the Ottoman Empire, have been examined. For historical scope of the study, the 18th century when the Ottoman State started to westernize, was chosen. In this century, the system is different in some aspects compared to the system in the foundation and rise periods. In this study, these differences are mentioned, and determinations made with regard to appointment methods are presented. In this context, changes in the inauguration and promotion of mudarrises are discussed. When the documents in this period are examined, it is seen that with regard to the appointment of the mudarrises, the expressions of “tevcih”, or “tevcih buyuruldu” were used to mean appointed. Mudarris appointments can be classified as appointments made with offers, appointment with the recommendations of Shaykh al-Islam, appointments with kadi’asker’s decree and the Sultan’s edicts. Mudarris appointments were made with such reasons as legitimacy, escheated, novation, eternalization and grace.