1Department of Food Engineering, Faculty Ankara University, Gölbaşı, Ankara, Turkey 2Bayramiç Vocational School, Laboratory Technology Program, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Bayramiç, Çanakkale,
Here, we investigated the crustal structure beneath eastern Anatolia, an area of high seismicity and critical significance for earthquake hazards in Turkey. The study was based on local tomography method using data from earthquakes that occurred provided by Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Ministry Interior Disaster Emergency Management Directorate Earthquake Department dataset used included travel times 54...
OBJECTIVE
Human cystic echinococcosis (CE) caused by infection with a larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus is a serious public health problem in Turkey. Echinococcosis is a zoonotic disease; dogs and livestock are important hosts in transmission. The aim of this study is to evaluate the rate of CE in Kayseri Rural Area, Central Anatolia, Turkey.
METHODS
At the present study, we planned to ...
S Selcuk AtamanalpBunyami OzogulAbdullah KisaogluSukru ArslanErcan KorkutErdem Karadeniz
OBJECTIVE
Typhoid fever (TF) is an important health problem in developing countries, and typhoid intestinal perforation (TIP) is a serious complication of TF. The present report aims to determine the clinical importance of TIPs for the last 36 years in our region, eastern Anatolia.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The clinical records of 84 surgically treated cases with TIPs were reviewed retrospectivel...
Turkey has been suffering from separatist terrorism and the political conflict it implies since the mid-1980s, both of which are believed to have a negative impact on economic welfare. This article investigates the economic costs of PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) terrorism, particularly in the Eastern and Southeastern provinces of Turkey by invoking the synthetic control method. We create a syn...
Poverty, a complex, multidimensional, and universal problem, has been conceptualized as income and material deprivation. In this article, we discuss poverty and related factors in Turkey. The absolute poverty line for Turkey was US$ 4 per capita per day. Turkey was ranked 92nd out of 177 countries with moderate human development in the 2006 Human Development Report. The individual food poverty ...
The Etruscan culture is documented in Etruria, Central Italy, from the 8(th) to the 1(st) century BC. For more than 2,000 years there has been disagreement on the Etruscans' biological origins, whether local or in Anatolia. Genetic affinities with both Tuscan and Anatolian populations have been reported, but so far all attempts have failed to fit the Etruscans' and modern populations in the sam...
Mules are known to have been used as carriage and riding animals in Mesopotamia and Anatolia as early as the beginning of the second millennium BC but may have been first bred in Anatolia in the Third Century BC. They have thus contributed to Turkey's cultural, social and economic heritage for more than 4,000 years and were an ancient component of its guild of domestic animals and overall biodi...
Zooarcheological evidence suggests that pigs were domesticated in Southwest Asia ~8,500 BC. They then spread across the Middle and Near East and westward into Europe alongside early agriculturalists. European pigs were either domesticated independently or more likely appeared so as a result of admixture between introduced pigs and European wild boar. As a result, European wild boar mtDNA lineag...
Journal:
:The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology2014
Bora AktaşSahin CobanOmer BaşarSema YamanBarış YılmazFuat EkizOsman Yüksel
Malva sylvestris (MS) is a kind of plant that grows naturally in fields, hedgerows, and fallow fields. The plant is commonly used in cooking in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Despite its extensive usage, only one case of an adverse effect of MS has been reported in the English medical literature until today (1). Here, we present a new case with fulminant hepatic failure and renal failur...
