The more homogenized population taken over by the Republic immediately after the Ottoman was being canalized towards the goal of national identity and the historical and cultural structure of the nation was being readdressed and redefined. Modernization and Westernization history of the new Turkey, which started with Ottoman reforms and took its final form with the Kemalist nationstate, politic...

The aim of the study is to determine the stress level of Turkish and Macedonian teachers living in different socio-cultural and economic situations. The scale used in the study has been developed by researches. 416 Turkish teachers and 213 Macedonian teachers have participated in the study. At the end of the study it was seen that Turkish teachers have mild stress levels and Macedonian teachers...

Despite the ubiquity of dancing and synchronized movement to music, relatively few studies have examined cognitive representations of musical rhythm and meter among listeners from contrasting cultures. We aimed to disentangle the contributions of culture-general and culture-specific influences by examining American and Turkish listeners' detection of temporal disruptions (varying in size from 5...

The present study examines the acoustic vowel space of Greek and Turkish vowels produced by bilingual speakers. The results are presented for both languages’ vowels production by bilingual speakers, as well as compared with the vowels production by monolingual speakers. It is revealed that the acoustic space of the Greek vowels produced by bilingual speakers is larger than the acoustic space of...

Background: Web of Science (WoS) is an online academic citation index provided by Thomson Reuters which supplies valuable bibliometric information for comparing impact of specific author, organization, or country in science production. The aim of this study was to compare toxicology publications of Iran and Turkey indexed in WoS from bibliometric point of view. Methods: The WoS database was ...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate oral health attitude and behavior of a group of turkish children aged between 6-12 years. methods : a sample of 139 children attending marmara university dentistry school (muds) department of pediatrics den­tistry be­tween december 2002 to april 2003 was selected. results : the mean age for girls was 8.82 yr (sd=2.06) and for boys was 8.87 y...

Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL) is one of the most common progressive neurodegenerative diseases seen in childhood. NCL is inherited as autosomal recessive trait, and is characterized by the accumulation of 'ceroid lipofuscin' in neuronal and extraneuronal cells. Clinical features include seizures, ataxia, myoclonus, loss of vision, and mental and motor deterioration. Although the disease ...

AIM To assess and compare the secular trend in age at menarche in Dutch girls (1955-2009) and girls from Turkish and Moroccan descent living in the Netherlands (1997-2009). METHODS Data on growth and maturation were collected in 20,867 children of Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan descent in 2009 by trained health care professionals. Girls, 9 years and older, of Dutch (n = 2138), Turkish (n = 282),...

Using a questionnaire survey, this study compared psychological adaptation (self-esteem, life satisfaction, and mental health problems) of Turkish adolescents in Norway and Sweden, and examined to what extent ethnic and majority identities, acculturation strategies, and perceived discrimination accounted for adaptation among Turkish adolescents. The samples consisted of 407 Turks (111 in Norway...

This study investigates how native Turkish-speaking participants of different ages produce new referents in narrative discourse about a 6-frame picture series. Turkish does not obligatorily encode the distinction between indefinite and definite reference with a formal article system. The expression of indefiniteness is instead achieved through a conglomeration of devices, including an optional ...