Geochemistry of thermal waters in eastern Anatolia: a case study from Diyadin (Ag˘rı) and Ercis¸-Zilan (Van) Suzan Pasvanog˘lu

Abstract: Throughout al-Ashraf Barsbāy’s reign as sultan of Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1422‒1438), one of the main performers and representatives of his expanding authority and power was the amir Qurqumās al-Shaʿbānī (d. 1438). Defeated in the power struggle that followed sultan Barsbāy’s death, Qurqumās’ career ended dramatically in his execution by order of the new sultan, al-Ẓāhir Jaqmaq (r. 1438‒1453). Whereas this amir’s rich case received substantial attention from the era’s leading Egyptian historiographers, it has so far hardly attracted any interest in modern scholarship. This article aims to remedy this, but not simply in order to pursue some detailed reconstruction of Qurqumās’ life story. It rather wishes to explore this story as a case study towards a better understanding of how extant historiographical narratives that mattered so much to Qurqumās’ contemporaries may be read in analytically more meaningful ways than traditional approaches have so far allowed for. The article therefore proposes and explores a two-tiered ‒ social and cultural ‒ method of reading contemporary historical texts as politically engaged narrative claims to historical truth. It is demonstrated how across a diverse set of narrative texts the high-profile career of the amir Qurqumās al-Shaʿbānī appears as functionally constructed around the messy relational realities of the administration of sultan Barsbāy’s justice and the performance of his warfare in Egypt, Syria, the Ḥijāz and Eastern Anatolia. It is furthermore argued that in the historiographical record of these messy realities Qurqumās’ career is made to appear through the semantics of justice and sovereignty as an agent of the legitimate and truthful political order of the formation of sultan Barsbāy’s state, but only for as long as that state existed.

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The Effects of Terrorist Activities on Development in the Southeastern Region of Turkey-Theoretical and Empirical Application

International Journal of Economics and Finance ◽

10.5539/ijef.v8n4p229 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 229

Author(s):

Mustafa Mete

Keyword(s):

Private Investment ◽

Eastern Anatolia ◽

Industrial Workers ◽

Economic Problems ◽

Question Analysis ◽

Investment Demand ◽

The World ◽

The Relationship ◽

Southeastern Region

<p>Terrorist activities affect and continue to cause social, political, cultural and economic problems for Turkey just as they do to many parts of the world. Investors would prefer to move their capital into safer regions due to the problem of terrorism and this affects the distribution of development. This study, aims at demonstrating the extent at which terrorism has affected development in the South-eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. This study will look at the investment volumes in 9 provinces located in southeast Turkey. We will also look at terrorist activities in these provinces as well as discussing the relationship between investment preferences and terrorism. Firstly, we will look at terrorist incidents in these provinces, the number of provinces affected by terrorist activities, number of people dying from terrorist related activities, state and industrial investments as well as determining the number of industrial workers in these provinces. For this purpose, as a case study, we will investigate investments in Gaziantep which is a city located in the Southern eastern Anatolia region and the sixth largest city in Turkey with a lot of private investments. In this study, a questionnaire was administered to ninety-three (93) big companies who are doing foreign trade with at least one country. The questionnaire administered was easy and used a detailed cross-question analysis. According to the study, it was discovered that there is an inverse relationship between the private investment demand and the frequency of terrorist incidences and then this relationship was discussed in detail.</p>

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Trace-element hydrogeochemistry of thermal waters of Karakoçan (Elazığ) and Mazgirt (Tunceli), Eastern Anatolia, Turkey

Journal of Geochemical Exploration ◽

10.1016/j.gexplo.2018.07.006 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 194 ◽

pp. 29-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Özlem Öztekin Okan ◽

Leyla Kalender ◽

Bahattin Çetindağ

Keyword(s):

Trace Element ◽

Thermal Waters ◽

Eastern Anatolia

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Mathematical Mystery in a Cultural Game

World Journal of Education ◽

10.5430/wje.v10n6p64 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 64

Author(s):

Mustafa Gök

Keyword(s):

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Research Data ◽

Mathematical Activity ◽

Recording Device ◽

Eastern Anatolia ◽

Mathematical Relationship ◽

Learning Mathematics ◽

Mathematical Experience

This study described the mathematical depth in a mathematical activity carried out in a village in Turkey’s Eastern Anatolia Region. This activity presented in the context of the game reflects a cultural situation of doing mathematics over time. In this context, it can identify as a study of ethnomathematics. Therefore, the cultural game was introduced first, and then the mathematical depth behind this game was uncovered in all its aspects. Finally, the mathematical relationship behind the game was analysed in terms of mathematics education. The case study, as one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The participants of the study consist of 1 person who knows, transmits, and teaches the cultural game. The game process and semi-structured interview that constituted the research data were recorded with a camera and a voice recording device. Descriptive analysis was used in the analysis of the interview. Findings of the study suggest that the cultural game is played without considering its mathematical depth, but that there is a rich mathematical depth behind it. The results also indicate that such games offer an effective way for adults learning mathematics. On the other hand, the study revealed that there could be different ways of thinking between school mathematics and ethnomathematics. It is thought that synthesizing mathematics with games that include ethnomathematics has the potential to provide students at diverse levels with an excellent mathematical experience.

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