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Book Part Religion, Education, and the Turkish Constitution: a Critical Assessment(Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012) Koeker, Levent[No Abstract Available]Book Part Kinetics of Co2 Capture by Carbon Dioxide Binding Organic Liquids(Springer international Publishing Ag, 2016) Orhan, Ozge Yuksel; Kayi, Hakan; Alper, Erdogan[No Abstract Available]Book Part Candidacy Versus Membership: Is Turkey the Greatest Beneficiary of the European Union(Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2013) Temel, B.Book Part Citation - Scopus: 2Hydrogen Generation From Food Industry and Biodiesel Wastes(Elsevier Inc., 2013) Nishio,N.; Nakashimada,Y.[No abstract available]Book Part Citation - Scopus: 1Eliminating Economic Violence Against Women for Gender Equality Empowering Women Through Human Rights Based Approach(Routledge, 2019) Simsek, Altin Asli[No Abstract Available]Book Part A Sociological Perspective on Civil Disobedience Via Taxation: the Case of Turkey(Peter Lang AG, 2016) Turguter,E.A.; Hos,Z.M.Since the establishment of states, the power of taxation is one of the main elements of sovereignty and it has been applied frequently by the rulers and governments. One can see that individuals have shown mass reactions to unfair decisions of governors, especially to unfair and heavy taxes many times in the history. In sociological and legal doctrine, these reactions are classified into two groups such as passive and active resistance and passive resistances can be considered as mainly civil disobedience movements. Civil disobedience stands at the crossroads of the law and sociology due to its consequences. Therefore, in this study, the history of civil disobedience will be analysed through the perspectives of law and sociology. Considering this process, the study will focus on tax-based examples of civil disobedience beginning from the 2000s in Turkey. © 2016 Peter Lang GmbH. All rights reserved.Book Part Citation - Scopus: 1Media and Democracy in Turkey: an Analysis on the News Media Framing of Gezi Park Protests(Taylor and Francis, 2016) Sayin,Ç.; Toros,E.Introduction Freedom of the press is typically considered crucial in fostering democracy and protecting the public interest; thus, it constitutes an indispensable measure for the quality of democracy and may be considered a hallmark of a consolidated democracy. Merkel’s (2004) notion of embedded democracy postulates press freedom as a critical aspect of political rights, which is one of the five partial regimes that support the proper functioning of an embedded liberal democracy. Those rights render the public sphere an independent field of political action in which communicative and organizational power is developed. Accordingly, a free press is a vital component of political communication and political parti-cipation through the distribution and reception of information; political social-ization of the public; the influencing of electoral decisions; and giving voice to interest groups. Within a liberal democratic framework the media’s democratic functions are idealized through two major expectations. First, the media should sustain the presence of multiple political voices (plurality). Second, it should impart information enabling the public to hold elected and appointed officials respons-ible for their actions (accountability). For example, both Walter Lippman and John Dewey (cited in Champlin and Knoedler 2006) attributed a considerable role to the media in a democracy. The former considered the media as an elite group that should evaluate the policies of government and convey information to the public regarding ongoing key debates. The latter viewed the media as a necessary instrument of democracy which should “figure out how to engage the entire public in decisions that would affect them in the end” (quoted in Fallows 1997: 237). However, it is difficult to argue that media discourse regularly meets these expectations, even in a consolidated democracy. The media do not always produce news that serves to enhance democracy due to issues such as patronage networks, distorted relationships between journalists and politicians, concentra-tion of media ownership, partisanship, and explicit political/ideological bias of media institutions. Indeed, rather than encouraging active citizenship and demo-cratic participation, the media generally function in a manner that promotes apathy, pessimism, conflict, and societal polarization. In Gamson et al.‘s (1992: 373) words, “all the trends seem to be in the wrong direction - toward more and more messages, from fewer and bigger producers, saying less and less. That’s the bad news.” Thus, far from the idea of objectivity, the media represent a realm of struggle in which the dominant powers compete and defend what they would prefer to have taken for granted by society. In other words, since media fol-lowers construct meanings about social and political issues via media-generated images of the world, media discourse is highly oriented toward finding support for competing constructions of reality. Within this framework, one may argue that the Turkish media are no excep-tion. Our main argument underpins the fact that, in the sense of plurality, media-generated frames may be compatible with democratic norms, and thus they may contribute to the consolidation of democracy and enhance democratic sensitivity. Yet, the very same frames may be utilized in an anti-democratic tonality, which would undermine the consolidation of democracy in any given context. What we mean by tonality is the construction of a frame. It connotes the underlying polit-ical and cultural fundamentals of a specific frame in terms of constructing and presenting the reality. We argue that the mere presence of variety in the sources of information and in the range of media content (e.g., multiple frames) cannot be interpreted as a sure sign of democracy or democratic consolidation. It is the nature of those voices (their tonality) that renders them democratic or antidemocratic. In this study, we will focus on the contents of the headline news reports of six newspapers during the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, which was a crucial social movement that generated competing news frames. The protests, which occurred between May and August, 2013, originated from a campaign against the destruc-tion of Gezi Park as part of the redevelopment of the Taksim area in Istanbul. On May 30, 2013 police intervened in a peaceful demonstration held by environ-mentalists in Gezi Park. The offensive response of the authorities touched a nerve and within a couple of days the protests spanned almost all provinces of Turkey. The cause of this great anger was not just the destruction of a park. It was also a reaction against the government’s increasingly authoritarian and exclusive attitude, suppressive tactics against opposition, and its unwillingness to respect different lifestyles. During the protests, the authorities provoked the anger by repeatedly showing intolerance of any form of protest. Regretfully, the mainstream national media, which had already been controlled by the govern-ment, exhibited self-censorship and conveyed little of the protests at the very beginning of the events. This directed people mostly to social media in order to communicate and learn about the events. In conducting this analysis, the headline news covered during that period will be coded in two ways. The first coding, following Toros (2012), will analyze the level of plurality within the Turkish media by employing the categories of pre-defined frames by Neuman et al. (1992) and Semetko and Valkenburg (2000), namely responsibility, human interest, conflict, morality, and economic frames. The second coding will focus on the tonality of those frames in terms of their compatibility with the norms of a liberal pluralistic democracy such as tolerance, equality, rule of law, justice, acceptance of cultural diversity, giving voice to multiple actors, respect for other lifestyles, opinions, and fundamental freedoms. © 2016 selection and editorial material, Cengiz Erisen and Paul Kubicek; individual chapters, the contributors.Book Part A Simulation Environment for Cybersecurity Attack Analysis Based on Network Traffic Logs(inst Engineering Tech-iet, 2019) Daneshgadeh, Salva; Oney, Mehmet Ugur; Kemmerich, Thomas; Baykal, NazifeThe continued and rapid progress of network technology has revolutionized all modern critical infrastructures and business models. Technologies today are firmly relying on network and communication facilities which in turn make them dependent on network security. Network-security investments do not always guarantee the security of organizations. However, the evaluation of security solutions requires designing, testing and developing sophisticated security tools which are often very expensive. Simulation and virtualization techniques empower researchers to adapt all experimental scenarios of network security in a more cost and time-effective manner before deciding about the final security solution. This study presents a detailed guideline to model and develop a simultaneous virtualized and simulated environment for computer networks to practice different network attack scenarios. The preliminary object of this study is to create a test bed for network anomaly detection research. The required dataset for anomaly or attack detection studies can be prepared based on the proposed environment in this study. We used open source GNS3 emulation tool, Docker containers, pfSense firewall, NTOPNG network traffic-monitoring tool, BoNeSi DDoS botnet simulator, Ostinato network workload generation tool and MYSQL database to collect simulated network traffic data. This simulation environment can also be utilized in a variety of cybersecurity studies such as vulnerability analysis, attack detection, penetration testing and monitoring by minor changes.Book Part Citation - Scopus: 1Boundary-Element Method in Microfluidics(Springer Science+Business Media, 2015) Çetin, Barbaros; Baranoğlu, BesimBook Part Citation - Scopus: 1Web Privacy: Issues, Legislations, and Technological Challenges(IGI Global, 2008) Mishra,A.; Mishra,D.People all over the world increasingly are concerned about the privacy issues surrounding the personal information collected by private organizations, governments and employers. Privacy relates to issues regarding collection, secure transmission, storage, authorized access, usage, and disclosure of personal information. This information is used for commercial gain by many organizations. Individual privacy concerns significantly affects consumer willingness to engage in electronic commerce over the Internet. The increased use of the Internet and Web for everyday activities is bringing new threats to personal privacy. This chapter assessed various issues related to individual privacy on the Web, growing concerns among the Web users, technologies employed for collecting and protecting information on the Web, privacy-enhancing technologies and the legal provisions to curb the Web privacy. This chapter also reported detailed discussion about Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), its structure, present scenario of its implementation and its future success. Global consistency on Internet privacy protection is important to promote the growth of electronic commerce. To protect consumers in a globally consistent manner, legislation, self-regulation, technical solutions and combination solutions are different ways that can be implemented. © 2008, IGI Global.
