Changes in the international environment are placing new pressures on Turkish policymakers and the Turkish public and are having important effects on Turkish policy. This is particularly true given the magnitude and rapidity of developments in adjacent regions, whether in the Balkans, the Caucasus, or the Middle East. These pressures alone would be stressful for Turkish foreign and security pol...

Chierchia (1998) proposed that the semantic type of nouns varies across languages: in some languages, nouns denote entities; in others, nouns denote predicates; in yet others, nouns of both types are attested. Chierchia posits the existence of two parameters to account for this division— namely [±arg], which determines whether a language contains nouns denoting arguments, and [±pred], which det...

The study examined the validity of the Turkish versions of three forgiveness-related questionnaires: the Conceptualizations of Forgiveness Questionnaire, the Forgivingness Questionnaire, and the Disposition to Seek Forgiveness Questionnaire. These questionnaires were translated from English to Turkish. The study also compared Turkish and French participants’ scores on these scales. The sample c...

AIMS Structured management programmes deliver optimized care in heart failure patients and improve outcome. We examined the feasibility of including patients with migration background speaking little or no German in a heart failure management programme. METHODS AND RESULTS After adaption of script material and staff to Turkish language we aimed to recruit 300 Turkish and 300 German (control g...

In the Netherlands, Turkish-Dutch children constitute a substantial group of children who learn to speak Dutch at the age of four after they learned to speak Turkish. These children are generally academically less successful. Academic success appears to be affected by both language proficiency and working memory skill. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between language ...

BACKGROUND Monitoring overweight in risk groups is necessary. Our aim is to assess the trend in overweight and obesity in Turkish and Moroccan children in the Netherlands since 1997 and to monitor the levels of lifestyle-related behaviours in 2009. METHODS We selected cross-sectional data of Turkish and Moroccan children aged 2-18 years from two national Growth Studies performed in 1997 and 2...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to develop, and assess the validity and reliability of the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BAQ)-Turkish Version. METHODS The BAQ was translated from English to Turkish by a bilingual individual, and then independently translated back to English by another bilingual individual. The study included 220 students from 2 universities. In order to dete...

Aim: To compare the adherence to clinical guidelines by GPs as registered and glycaemic control in Turkish and Dutch type 2 diabetes patients. Design: A retrospective cohort study. Search of general practice medical records for diabetesrelated variables of Turkish and Dutch diabetes patients, stratified for age and gender. Setting: Seventeen general practices (37 GPs) in the inner city of Rotte...

The objective of this study was to test whether quantity and/or quality distinctions are problematic for Turkish learners acquiring L2 German. The perception and production of the German long/short vowel pairs /i:/-//, /a:/-/a/, and /u:/-// by a group of Turkish high school learners of L2 German were compared to an age-matched control group of German native speakers. The results of both the p...

background: in 1999, duzce suffered two consecutive devastating earthquakes above magnitude 7 in august and november. in the present study, we aimed to evaluate the indoor air quality of coffeehouses by determining carbon monoxide (co) levels and their contributing factors in coffeehouses built before and after the earthquake. methods: we conducted our study in 76 turkish coffeehouses in duzce ...