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- Similarities of Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) with Christian
Organizations: A Systematic Evaluation
Authors: Ali Gür
Abstract: It is important for the strategy of struggle that we analyze the historical and contemporary Christian organizations inspired by the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), which apparently started out as a religious organization and turned into a terrorist organization, and determine their similarities. With the data we obtained from multiple open sources, we determined the basic descriptive features of FETO under 44 headings, 4 of which are the history of establishment and 40 of which are descriptive, using data mining method. In our study, we aimed to systematically analyze the aspects of FETO that show similarities with Christian organizations such as Jesuit, Opus Dei, Carbonari, Evangelist and Moon. Our presentation in an easy-to-understand tabular form with a comprehensive and systematic analysis is important in terms of being the first comprehensive analysis on this subject, as well as being the strength of our study.Launching that it is a so-called Islamic movement, FETÖ is most similar to Evangelism, one of the Christian Protestant sect movements, and Opus Dei, which is also one of the Catholic sect movements, in 35 of 40 titles. Later, in 31 subtitles, Moonism is similar to the Jesuits and Carbonaris in 28 subtitles. The main common feature of these six religious movements, which we consider including FETO, is that they have turned into dangerous organizational structures, regardless of their Muslim or Christian affiliation or sectarian affiliation.
PubDate: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +030
- Crisis Duration Bias: A Multinomial Logit Approach for Islamic Banking
Authors: Ayşegül Aytaç
Abstract: In this study an early warning system (EWS) model is constructed for predicting the banking crisis (BC) of Islamic banks (IBs). To this aim, multinomial logit regression is employed regarding the levels of the explanatory variables are different in their tranquil and crisis/post-crisis levels which is called as the crisis duration bias (CDB). The analysis is conducted with three time windows following Bussiere and Fratzscher (2006) and Caggiano et al. (2016). Accordingly, the IBs in each country experiences three states as tranquil period (Yi,t=0), a pre-fragility period (Yi,t=1) and post-fragility period (Yi,t=2). The results address CDB problem and both macroeconomic and banking sector variables are crucial in determining the early warning indicators of the fragility of IBs. This study also draws attention to predictive performances of binomial logit approach and multinomial logit approach. According to the results, the overall predictive performance of the multinomial logit regression reveals superior results than binomial logit regression.
PubDate: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +030
- Sexagesimal Place Value System in The Context Of Câbîzâde Halîl
Fâ‘iz Efendi's Work Tıtled Fezleketü'l-Hisâb
Authors: Halime Mücella Demirhan Çavuşoğlu
Abstract: In the Ottoman Empire, together with the base 10 number system (Hesâb-ı Hindi), two different number systems were used, namely mental calculation and sexagesimal system. One of these number systems, the calculation system, which is defined by the name of sexagesimal system generally is especially used in astronomical calculations. However, it is also known that the related calculation system is used in mathematical resources related to trigonometric calculations. In this study, it is aimed to help a historian of science or a reader who is likely to encounter sexagesimal system in mathematics or astronomy research while introducing the account to the reader. In the study, sexagesimal systemwas discussed with its historical background and its prevalence was emphasized by drawing attention to its place in the Ottoman accounting system. In the research, it is aimed to contribute to the history of science researches by selecting the work of Câbizâde Halil Fa'iz Efendi named Fezleketü'l-Hisâb, on which a large-scale independent study has not been done before. In addition, throughout the study, sexagesimal system was questioned in the account books that are important in Ottoman mathematics and the distinctive aspects of Fezleketü'l-Hisâb, if any, were tried to be revealed in general.
PubDate: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +030
- A Critical Analysis of the Agency of Education in Turkey: Professional
Construction, Social Dispositions and Multidimensional Tensions in
Academicians and Teachers
Authors: Cem Özkurt
Abstract: This article is based on the comparative analysis of in-depth interviews within the framework of a qualitative sociological study conducted with academics in 2021, with in-depth interviews data for “teacher” groups of a study conducted within the scope of middle-class professions in 2018. The study aims to explore academics and teachers, the context of advantages/disadvantages of social/class origin, socio/psychic reflections of professional practice and the tensions experienced by professional members and analyze them from a sociological point of view. The article aims to reflect an insider's voice based on the structured relationship networks that build academicians and teachers multidimensionally, the experiences in the biographical/personal histories of the perpetrators and to depict them intensely. This description aims to show an overview of the construction stages of the professional spirit of academics and teachers, the areas of tension in professional practice and the socio/psychic formation of perpetrators in the context of regularities, orientations and overlaps on the one hand, and within the framework of distinctions and differentiations on the other. It is to try to reveal in what way the class situation, economic, cultural/social capitals, social influence and social predispositions affect the educational processes of academics and teachers, in what forms they carry out constructions in their future designs and career references. The article is an attempt at meta-synthesis that opens teachers and academics to discussion with a conceptual framework such as social predispositions, social class origin, professional spirit and professional practices in the context of the findings obtained from in-depth interviews conducted previously. From the point of view of contribution to the field, it is to try to discover the sociological regularities that build the problem areas that teachers and academics experience in their professional practice through qualitative studies and reinterpretations and to develop a perspective that contributes to new research
PubDate: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +030
- Ethics, Social Interaction and Cyberpsychology: Directors’ Paradox
Authors: Meral Doğanay
Abstract: The main aim of this study is to determine the directors’ senses towards the relation among ethics, social interaction and cyber psychology. Within this scope, the survey form prepared towards this research is applied around six towns of İzmir province between 03/01/2022 -14/02/2022. 192 (n=192) directors about 44 female and 148 men are included in the study. The sense of directors’ ethics and cyber psychology importance is determined to be at high level. As a result of factor analysis findings, cyber psychology from the point of gender; varies in dimension of affective- reactional, mechanic-dynamic interaction, motivational contingency and reflexive approach factors, ethics in terms of education and marital status variables; varies in dimension of executive attitudinal determinism, social interaction, cyberpsychology; varies in dimension of effective- reactional, mechanic-dynamic interaction, motivational contingency and reflexive approach factors, it has been observed that there is no differences in terms of age variables. The finding has been reached that graduate participants put more emphasis on the factors. It has been determined that cyberpsychology influences directors negatively in dimension of affective- reactional, mechanic-dynamic interaction, motivational contingency and reflexive approach and there is a positive linear relationship among ethics, social interaction and cyberpsychology.
PubDate: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +030
- A Matter of Life and Death: State Power and Control of the Body in a
Pandemic Era in the Light of Foucault’s Concept of Biopolitics
Authors: Sunday Onwuegbuchulam
Abstract: The advent of COVID-19 pandemic saw the declaration of state of national disaster in South Africa which meant that the country was literally shut down with several restrictions on socio-economic and with it some human bodily activities. The situation has brought into the fore a revived interest in the interrogation of the nexus between state power and control of freedom of citizens. As such, the issue has also brought into focus Foucault’s analysis of power in modern and postmodern societies centring on the concept of biopower/biopolitics. Considering the centrality of citizen’s constitutional right to several civil liberties including right to bodily integrity, there is need to explore the limits of state power in the idea of biopolitics. This essay utilises desktop methods to interrogate state’s power and control of citizen’s bodies in South Africa during and post COVID-19 era. Ultimately, the article is an attempt to contribute to the discourse on how political theorising incorporates human embodiment.
PubDate: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +030
- Social Media Real and False Self Will to Power (RFSWP) Defense Mechanisms
and Research Results
Authors: Hakan Tan; Mümin Yavuzcan
Abstract: AbstractThe underlying reason why people participate in social media and follow people like famous, elite, powerful and phenomenal is that they want to gain power, cooperate with power and be a part of power. While people want to be a part of the power by participating in the social media game, the will to power the actual and false self also exhibits the behavioral characteristics of the defense mechanisms. As a result, people realize their security request; eliminate the deficiencies that he has begun to feel in themselves; It satisfies the will-to power-needs by realizing its efforts to defeat and gain superiority. This research aims to examine the relationship of social media (independent variable) with will to power defense mechanisms, which are explained as mechanisms of real and false self (dependent variables. The social media real and false self will to power (RFSWP) defense mechanisms scale developed by the research author. According to the results of the research, the will to power defense mechanisms examined in the research are carried out by digital immigrants and digital natives in social media, and digital immigrants and digital natives make efforts in social media to use will to power defense mechanisms. The study is important in that it proposes to add the "power will defense mechanism" to the defense mechanisms.
PubDate: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +030
- Market Risk Analysis with Value at Risk Models using Machine Learning in
BIST-30 Banking Index
Authors: Yavuz Demirdöğen
Abstract: Market risk is one of the most critical risks for banks and portfolio managers. According to Basel criteria, Value at Risk (VaR) calculations should be conducted at regular intervals. VaR calculations can be performed using various methods, and the approaches and variables added to the model can vary significantly. Developments in machine learning and deep learning methods have increased the diversity of VaR calculations, enabling the construction of more accurate and complex models.In this study, a portfolio was created using the stocks of 4 major banks in BIST30 (AKBNK, GARAN, ISCTR, YKBNK) with the help of Monte Carlo simulation and Random Forest. Calculations were made for 126 periods with a 10-day interval using 5 years of daily data. Predictions were made for the last 4 periods using 3 different Value at Risk (VaR) methods (historical, parametric, and Monte Carlo). Independent variables such as VIX (fear index), USD/TL, Gold/TL, and Brent/TL were used. The suitability of the variables was tested with machine learning regularization methods, including Ridge, Lasso, and Elastic Net regression models. Random Forest was again used to measure the impact of independent variables on stocks' weights. For each VaR model, stock weight distributions were determined for the last 4 periods, and the realized VaR results were compared.As a result of the findings, the parametric VaR method provided the best result for the first period, while the historical VaR method provided the closest result for the other three periods. When comparing the findings with the actual results, it was observed that the findings were more optimistic, and even the closest results did not come within 30% of the actual value. The reason for the difference being greater than expected could be attributed to the fact that the value of bank stocks has been below their value in the last two years and the sharp movements in the stock market in the selected last 4 periods, independent of individual stocks.
PubDate: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +030
- Differences in Perspectives between Islamic and Conventional Insurance: An
Argumentative Analysis based on Risk-sharing and Risk-transfer Concept
Authors: Yusuf Dinç; Rashed Jahangır
Abstract: This article presents an argumentative analysis comparing conventional insurance and Takaful, a segment of Islamic insurance system. The objective of the study is to evaluate both systems from justice, economic, risk, moral, and refund policy perspectives. It focuses primarily on Takaful, a risk-sharing insurance that is considered more viable than conventional insurance in terms of demonstrating compliance with the five sample indicators. Despite some limitations, the study argues in favor of Takaful because its limitations are mostly individual, not institutional in nature. There is a significant and higher growth of Takaful than conventional insurance, and it has the potential to become a significant player in the global insurance market. The research adds significant value to the existing literature on Islamic finance and insurance through its evaluation of Takaful and conventional insurance.
PubDate: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +030
- Do Globalization and Financial Development Affect Life Expectancy at
Birth' An Empirical Study On Türkiye
Authors: Muhammed Şehid Görüş
Abstract: Life expectancy at birth is a significant health indicator that has been studied for many years, and researchers have detected many factors that affect this variable. According to the health sciences literature, it has been determined that there are plenty of factors that affect this variable such as health expenditure, the number of doctors, and the number of hospital beds, so on. This study aims to examine the effects of financial development, globalization, and per capita income on life expectancy at birth by utilizing an economic approach. Especially in recent years, the effects of globalization and financial development on health indicators have attracted the attention of researchers and some studies have been conducted in this research area. However, among these studies, it has been determined that the studies on Türkiye are limited in number. Therefore, this study examines the economic factors affecting life expectancy at birth in Türkiye for the period between 1980 and 2020. For this purpose, the Fourier VAR model is utilized. According to the impulse-response functions obtained from the models, it is found that a one standard deviation shock to gross domestic product per capita does not have a statistically significant effect on life expectancy at birth. In addition, it is determined that the response of the life expectancy at birth to a one standard deviation shock in globalization and financial development is positive. In addition, according to the variance decomposition results, it is found that approximately 91.5% of the change in life expectancy at birth is explained by its own values in the first period. In the following periods, the explanatory power of globalization and financial development increases. It is thought that the findings obtained from this study can be used in the design of more effective health and economic policies.
PubDate: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +030
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