Mapping the past: Turkish Cypriot narratives of time and place in the Canbulat museum, northern Cyprus

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Scott
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
Turkish Cypriot

scholarly journals Festivals for Inclusion? Examining the Politics of Cultural Events in Northern Cyprus

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 168-179
Author(s):  
Rahme Sadikoglu
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
The Past ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
Cultural Festivals ◽  
Turkish Cypriot ◽  
Greek Cypriots

In Northern Cyprus, cultural festivals are increasingly popular. The routinely celebrated festivals transform small villages into colourful celebrations with lots of activities and great culinary experiences, offering opportunities for social contact between members of different generations. People meet in the streets, where traditional food and handicrafts are on display and traditional folk dance performances usually take place. Cultural events provide an important space in which older generations often nostalgically remember the past with others of their generation and share their memories with the young people. Bi‐communal interactions between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots in these public spaces also help leave behind and bury the violence of the past, nationalistic dogma, and intolerance. Drawing on ideas from postcolonial theory, cultural studies, sociology, and scholarship on public art, this article develops a post‐postcolonial approach to explore the politics and value of Turkish Cypriot cultural festivals and the ways in which Turkish Cypriots are bridging differences with Greek Cypriots. Through observations, conversations, and interviews conducted with Turkish Cypriots from June 2014 to October 2017, the article also discusses the ways in which public art encourages dialogue and multicultural tolerance in Cyprus. The article argues that the rise of interest in Turkish Cypriot folk arts and multicultural tolerance, as propagated by Turkish Cypriots, should be understood in more complex terms than simply that of positive inclusion, as an ambivalence closely connected to the East/West division. Accordingly, the article illustrates that the coexistence of inclu‐ sion and exclusion are at the heart of Turkish Cypriot society.

scholarly journals Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti`nde Okutulan Kıbrıs Tarihi Ders Kitaplarındaki “Tarih Öncesi Çağlar” Ünitelerinin İçerik Analizi / Content Analysis of Units on "Prehistoric Ages" of Cyprus History Course Books in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Efdal Özkul ◽  
Gülcan Faika Ülvay
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
Turkish Cypriot ◽  
Qualitative Part ◽  
History Book

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This study is based on the content analysis of the units on pre-historic periods of Cyprus History, Book 1 used in secondary schools between 2004 and 2009 and of Turkish Cypriot History, 6th Grade Books used for the secondary schools between 2009 and 2016. Mixed research methods, which compromises qualitative and quantitative research method, was used in this study. The qualitative part of the study includes the examination of the units on prehistoric ages in the textbooks according to criteria such as concepts, skills and visuals. In the quantitative part of the study, it has been consulted 67 teachers who are able to give a history lesson in secondary schools. According to the findings obtained from the study, it is possible to say that the opinions of the teachers with regard to the Cyprus History, Book I between 2004-2009 are more positive than 6th Grade Books of Cyprus History between 2009-2016. Additionally, it was seen that there were missing points in the units on pre-historic periods of the said course books in terms of concepts, skills and visuals. </p><p><strong>Öz</strong></p><p>Çalışmada 2004-2009 yılları arasında orta dereceli okullarda okutulan Kıbrıs Tarihi 1. Kitap ile 2009-2016 yılları arasında orta dereceli okullarda okutulan Kıbrıs Türk Tarihi 6. Sınıf ders kitaplarının tarih öncesi devirlerini içeren ünitelerinin içerik açısından değerlendirilmesi esas alınmıştır. Çalışmada nitel ve nicel araştırma yöntemlerini içerisine alan karma araştırma modeli kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın nitel bölümünde ders kitapları içerisinde yer alan tarih öncesi çağları içeren ünitelerin kavramlar, beceriler ve görseller gibi kriterler doğrultusunda incelenmesi yer almaktadır. Araştırmanın nicel bölümünde ise orta dereceli okullarda tarih dersi verebilecek niteliklere sahip 67 öğretmenin görüşüne başvurulmuştur. Çalışmanın sonucunda elde edilen bulgulara göre 2004-2009 Kıbrıs Tarihi 1. Kitap ders kitabına ait öğretmen görüşlerinin 2009-2016 Kıbrıs Türk Tarihi 6. Sınıf ders kitabı öğretmen görüşlerine göre daha olumlu olduğunu söylemek mümkündür. Ayrıca söz konusu ders kitaplarının tarih öncesi devirleri içeren ünitelerinde kavramlar, beceriler ve görseller açısından eksikliklerin yer aldığı görülmektedir.</p>

scholarly journals User's Need in Architectural Spaces Development, Existing Kitchen Design in Northern Cyprus

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Rasha Moree Tarboush ◽  
Çilen Erçin
Keyword(s):  
User Needs ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Past ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Architectural Spaces

This paper examines the kitchens' evolution throughout history and the increasing interest of architects in the kitchen space to meet user needs. The method of studying this paper is part of a research project that reviews a series of changes in the architecture of kitchen spaces in the past 100 years, with a focus on the types of kitchen that have been used and how to develop them over time according to the dimensions of the space and the needs of the user. This paper shows the importance of user needs in architectural kitchen design development. The study focuses on modern kitchens and their types according to the available kitchen dimensions. The case study is centered on how the user needs to influence the design of an existing kitchen, Northern Cyprus.

scholarly journals 3D Technological Readiness: A Northern Cyprus Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bello Nawaila ◽  
Huseyin Bicen
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Three Dimension ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Technological Readiness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Engineering Department

<p>In the past years, considerable effort has been made towards integrating technological enhancement and support for learning, these technologies have not only impacted the field of education, but have also expanded and challenge our thinking of what constitute a learning environment.</p><p>In spite of the fact that the world is without a doubt three dimension, we are always inclined to teach by utilizing two dimensional technology, which we know is static and offers no powerful substance, but since we trust it to be more adaptable, more helpful and less expensive.</p><p>This research is a quantitative research that explores the use of two different questionnaires to access the level of 3D technological readiness and general technological readiness among students of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and all analysis were done using SPSS version 20 software.</p><p>The questionnaires were both found to be reliable with Cronbach's Alpha .730 for 3D technological questionnaire and .783 for the general technology questionnaire</p><p> It was found that the students are ready for the implementation of 3D technology in education with mean = 3.5403 and that they are undecided when it comes to general technological readiness with mean = 3.427 which was attributed to the ambiguous nature of the word technology.</p><p>No significant difference was found in terms of readiness between the two genders, but Civil Engineering Department students are more ready. A significant positive correlation was found between the two questionnaires</p><p> </p>

Secession and the Sovereignty Game

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan D. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
New Caledonia ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Civil Resistance ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
The Past ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
The Right

This book offers a comprehensive strategic theory for how secessionist movements attempt to win independence. Combining original data analysis, fieldwork, interviews with secessionist leaders, and case studies on Catalonia, the Murrawarri Republic, West Papua, Bougainville, New Caledonia, and Northern Cyprus, the book shows how the rules and informal practices of sovereign recognition create a strategic playing field between existing states and aspiring nations that the book terms “the sovereignty game.” To win sovereign statehood, all secessionist movements have to maneuver on the same strategic playing field while varying their tactics according to local conditions. To obtain recognition, secessionist movements use tactics of electoral capture, nonviolent civil resistance, and violence. To persuade the home state and the international community, they appeal to normative arguments regarding earned sovereignty, decolonization, the right to choose, inherent sovereignty, and human rights. The pursuit of independence can be enormously disruptive and is quite often violent. By advancing a theory that explains how sovereign recognition has succeeded in the past and is working in the present, and by anticipating the practices of future secessionist movements, the book also prescribes solutions that could make the sovereignty game less conflictual.

scholarly journals Northern Cyprus as an ‘inner neighbour’: A critical analysis of European Union enlargement in Cyprus

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Casaglia
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Eu Enlargement ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Enlargement ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Turkish Cypriot ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

This article analyses the impact of Cyprus’s accession to the European Union (EU) on the northern part of the island, and tackles the political actorness of the EU with regard to the enduring Cypriot conflict. Much literature has critically analysed the EU enlargement process, underlining its imperialistic features and its problematic nature. At the same time, scholars have highlighted the EU’s difficulties in acting as a political actor and its impact on situations of ethno-national conflict. This article brings together these critical aspects by analysing them in the peculiar context of Cyprus. It retraces the negotiation process and the Turkish Cypriots’ in/visibility throughout it, and presents research conducted following Cyprus’s accession in three different periods between 2008 and 2015. We propose an interpretation of Northern Cyprus as an ‘inner neighbour’ of the EU, because of its anomalous and liminal status, the suspended application of the acquis communautaire, the unresolved conflict and the ambiguity of the border management of the Green Line, the line of partition between north and south. All these problematic features of Northern Cyprus’s situation are examined in detail to identify the unique position of this entity within the EU. In addition to this, and supporting the importance of a bottom-up understanding of the EU’s normative and symbolic projection, the article presents the opinions of Turkish Cypriot citizens about their expectations before and after 2004, and how their ideas and imaginaries related to the EU have evolved and interacted with the process of Europeanisation.

scholarly journals Incidence of End-Stage Renal Disease in the Turkish-Cypriot Population of Northern Cyprus: A Population Based Study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. e54394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. F. Connor ◽  
D. Deren Oygar ◽  
Daniel P. Gale ◽  
Retha Steenkamp ◽  
Dorothea Nitsch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Disease ◽  
End Stage Renal Disease ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Population Based Study ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
Stage Renal Disease ◽  
End Stage ◽  
Turkish Cypriot

scholarly journals A theoretical approach to the Cyprus Problem: Neoclassical Realism with Neoliberalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Nikos Lekakis
Keyword(s):  
International System ◽  
Small States ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Hard Power ◽  
Greek Cypriot ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Republic Of Cyprus ◽  
Turkish Cypriot ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract This paper, which covers the period of the 2004 Annan Plan and its rejection to date, places the Cyprus Problem in an International Relations theoretic framework. It searches for a “foreign policy outcome,” essentially a decision by the leaders of the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities, to politically reunite these two communities under the auspices of the UN. The paper provides a synthesis of the neo-liberal and the neoclassical realist paradigms, aiming to better interpret the existing experience and to shed light on the prospect of a future solution to the problem. The strategic environment for the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) is ‘permissive’ because the message sent by the international system for reunification does not require the use of hard power. The leaders of the two communities play a key role, although the strategic political culture in small states such as the TRNC is not developed and state-society relations are underdeveloped. Also, the civil society at large can play a role in influencing the leaders' images regarding the reunification opportunity.

Performance-Driven Project Management in Cyprus

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-31
Author(s):  
Steven John Kelly ◽  
M. Mari Novak
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
Sustained Effort ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Turkish Cypriot ◽  
Second Wave

The training and consultation effort, performance-driven project management for the Turkish Cypriot community in Northern Cyprus, was funded because implementation of project plans was not satisfactory. The community was faced with considerable challenge. Non-performance was an issue for all stakeholders, directly affecting incomes, access, quality of life. Over nine months the result was upgraded manager/consultant project management skills. Both quality of project design and implementation of projects radically improved. Project results closed the fundamental performance gaps, with a remarkable 80% of the projects completed within timeframe and budget. These included retail sales increases, higher certification scores, new product/service launches, and cost savings. The level of understanding of organizational project dynamics was raised significantly, along with the skills needed to manage projects with a performance-driven approach. This sustained effort was evaluated in the design and early stages of implementation of the second wave of projects.

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