Despite this increasing trend, the academic literature on Turkish M&As is limited, especially compared to the large amount of US studies. This paper aims to extend this literature. Specifically, we investigate the changes in the performance of Turkish companies subsequent to the completion of M&A transactions. The research question is appealing not only because literature on Turkish M&As is lim...

OrienTel-Turkish includes telephone speech recordings and annotations of 1700 Turkish speakers balanced in gender, dialect, age and calling environment; approximately one third of calls are over the fixed network and the rest are over the mobile network. Each speaker contributes with 48 items containing digits, digit/number strings, time/date expressions, phonetically rich words and sentences, ...

Kim, Hyung-Soo. 2009. The Full-ta-Partial Reduction in Korean and Turkish Reduplication. Linguistic Research. 26(2), 121-148. Turkish and Korean share the morphological feature of having only suffixation in derivation. Partial reduplications, however, appear to contradict this typological generalization: partial prefixal reduplication has been claimed to exist in both languages, even though suc...

The history of ethno-national conflict on the ethnically divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus has decisively marked the communication process between the major stakeholders in the conflict, but most of all, and in a profound way, between the two Cypriot communities, namely, between Greek Cypriots (G/Cs) and Turkish Cypriots (T/Cs). The so-called Green Line, which ethnically divides the capita...

For more than four decades, the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have been negotiating in an effort to find a solution to the Cyprus problem. The perspective, assumptions and hypotheses that underpin the respective approaches to the Cyprus problem disclose the general framework that renders understandable the impasse that has characterised the long history of negotiations on Cyprus. The Hels...

Being the last survivor a of the original triumvirate that launched the hairpin countercurrent theory of urine concentration, I thought it might be seemly for me to reminisce about how it came about 50 years ago. In 1946, I graduated in chemistry at the University in Budapest (Hungary) and became the lucky recipient of a fellowship offered by the University of Basel (Switzerland). A few months ...