The present study assessed the extent to which culture impacts the emotion-induced memory trade-off effect. This trade-off effect occurs because emotional items are better remembered than neutral ones, but this advantage comes at the expense of memory for backgrounds such that neutral backgrounds are remembered worse when they occurred with an emotional item than with a neutral one. Cultures di...

Old Turkic inscriptions found in various geographies today have been studied by researchers aspects. In this study, the average life expectancy of old Turks was determined light data obtained from Orkhon Inscriptions, Yenisei Inscriptions and Kyrgyzstan Inscriptions. When determining these periods, lifestyle Turks, geography which they lived, economy health services were taken into account. It ...

If identities are socially produced, what happens when individuals grow up participating in divergent or conflicting social contexts? This paper reports upon research with second generation Turkish adolescents in London. Using the concept of the dialogical self, the research examines the dialogical structure of these young Turks’ selves. The analysis is Bakhtinian and seeks to identify the diff...

Amsterdam’s immigrants from Caribbean and Southern Mediterranean origins have been characterized as modestly segregated from Dutch residents, and their residential assimilation has been expected to proceed rapidly. This conclusion applies better to immigrants from the former colonies of Surinam and the Antilles, while Turks and Moroccans face stronger barriers. Neighborhoods with significant co...

T here is not much data available on Turkish medicine before the acceptance of the Islamic religion. Medical history goes back to the eighth century, the time of the Uygurs and Orhun Turks. During this period surgeons from neighboring countries had an influence on Turkish medicine and some written data were established. Physicians were educated in hospitals in a “master-knight” relation. When l...

Memories of war, terrorism, and natural disaster play a critical role in the construction of group identity and the persistence of group conflict. Here, we argue that personal memory and knowledge of the collective past become entwined only when public events have a direct, forceful, and prolonged impact on a population. Support for this position comes from a cross-national study in which parti...