In autumn 2003, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan declared: “The European Union is our national goal”. Since Spring 2002, two extensive constitutional amendments and eight harmonization packages, which imply fundamental changes in domestic policy and throughout Turkish society, were enforced. Prior to the start of the EU accession negotiations in October 2005 two thirds of the Turkish population s...

PURPOSE Individuals with cardiac problems avoid physical activity and exercise because they expect to feel shortness of breath, dizziness, or chest pain. Assessing kinesiophobia related to heart problems is important in terms of cardiac rehabilitation. The Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia Swedish Version for the Heart (TSK-SV Heart) is reliable and has been validated for cardiac diseases in the Swe...

BACKGROUND The Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State (MEAMS) was developed as a screening test to detect cognitive impairment in the elderly. It includes 12 subtests, each having a 'pass score'. A series of tasks were undertaken to adapt the measure for use in the adult population in Turkey and to determine the validity of existing cut points for passing subtests, given the wide range of...

Current integration discussion about the Turkish population in Germany is influenced by culturalessentialism. The political and social components of integration are by and large being neglected.The incorporation of migrants of Turkish origin into the society is praised as a superior target for theCurrent Discussions in the German Integration Debate Revue européenne des migrations in...

There different RFLP's on the p53 gene were studied in a healthy Turkish population. These RFLP's were located on the exon 4 (CD 47), exon 6 (CD 213) and intron 6 (A-G). CD 47 (C-T) was not present. CD 213 (G) occurred very rarely with a frequency of 0.0114. The frequency of the Int 6 A/G a alteration was found to be 0.70 for "G". The heterozygosity rate was 32.72%.

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...

BACKGROUND AND AIM There are a significant number of Turkish speaking immigrants living in London. Their special health issues including women's health, mental health, and alcohol and smoking habits has been assessed. The aim of this study was to explore the ongoing challenges in access to health care services and its impact on Quality of Life of immigrants. MATERIAL AND METHODS This cross-se...

BACKGROUND Smoking behaviour among immigrants is assumed to converge to that of the host country's majority population with increasing duration of stay. We compared smoking prevalence among Turkish immigrants residing in two different countries (Germany (DE)/the Netherlands (NL)) between and within countries by time spent in Turkey and DE/NL. METHODS The German 2009 micro-census and the Dutch...