Tombs of Binbir Kilise-Karaman

Karaman’ın 50 km kuzeyinde yer alan Binbir Kilise, antik kaynaklarda geçen Barata’ya eşitlenmektedir. Hititler döneminden itibaren kutsal bir merkez olduğu anlaşılan Karadağ’ın kuzey eteğinde yer alan Binbir Kilise, Bizans döneminde bölgenin en önemli dinî merkezi haline gelmiştir. Dinî bir merkez olması yanında Geç Roma ve Bizans döneminde Konya-Ereğli bağlantısında önemli bir yol kavşağında yer alması, buraya stratejik bir önem de kazandırmıştır. Binbir Kilise kalıntılarının önemli bir bölümünü de mezar yapıları oluşturmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Binbir Kilise’de yer alan beş mezar tipini ana hatlarıyla tanıtmaktır.Binbir Kilise, 50 kilometers away from the north of Karaman, comes up to the Barata in ancient sources. Binbir church located in the north foot of Karadag mountain was thought to be a holy centre beginning from Hittite period and became the most important blessed religious centre during Byzantine period in the region. In addition to its being a religious centre, in the period of late Romans and Byzantine it gained strategic importance because it was located in the intersection of Konya-Eregli. The tombs form the significant part of Binbir Kilise remains. This study’s aim is to outline five types of tombs situated in Binbir Kilis

Secure Distributed Dynamic State Estimation in Wide-Area Smart Grids

Smart grid is a large complex network with a myriad of vulnerabilities, usually operated in adversarial settings and regulated based on estimated system states. In this study, we propose a novel highly secure distributed dynamic state estimation mechanism for wide-area (multi-area) smart grids, composed of geographically separated subregions, each supervised by a local control center. We firstly propose a distributed state estimator assuming regular system operation, that achieves near-optimal performance based on the local Kalman filters and with the exchange of necessary information between local centers. To enhance the security, we further propose to (i) protect the network database and the network communication channels against attacks and data manipulations via a blockchain (BC)-based system design, where the BC operates on the peer-to-peer network of local centers, (ii) locally detect the measurement anomalies in real-time to eliminate their effects on the state estimation process, and (iii) detect misbehaving (hacked/faulty) local centers in real-time via a distributed trust management scheme over the network. We provide theoretical guarantees regarding the false alarm rates of the proposed detection schemes, where the false alarms can be easily controlled. Numerical studies illustrate that the proposed mechanism offers reliable state estimation under regular system operation, timely and accurate detection of anomalies, and good state recovery performance in case of anomalies

Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey

An academic insider's account of the Islamist social movement Kurdish Hizbullah

Determination of in internet privacy behaviours of students

AbstractThe aim of this research is to determine internet privacy behaviors of students. The research was carried out in survey model. The study group of this research consists of students attending Ankara University Educational Sciences Institute Secondary Education Field Teaching Master of Arts without Thesis Programs (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Social Studies and Philology) at the academic year of 2009-2010 and the total number of the students is 205 (females (n=163) and males (n=42)). Questionnaire was utilized as data collection instrument. The questionnaire consists of 42 questions covering the issues of privacy behaviors, general attention, technical protection and privacy concerns. 5-Point Likert type scale is utilized within the questions included in the questionnaire. T-Test, Kruskal-Wallis H test, Mann-Whitney U test and one-way ANOVA for independent samples were utilized in order to find out whether there are statistical significances according to the variables of internet privacy behaviors, genders, program enrolled, having computer, internet usage skills, internet usage frequencies and internet connection duration concerning students. At the end of the findings obtained within the scope of the research, it was found out that there are not any statistical significance between the privacy behaviors and genders, internet usage experiences and frequencies; on the other hand, it was found out that there are statistical significances between their attention behaviors and having computer, internet usage skills, technical protection, program enrolled and internet connection durations. As a result, it can be said that students display differences on technical protection in terms of having computer and usage skills, and also they display differences on attention behaviors in terms of program type and internet connection duration, but on the other hand, all students display similar behavior types on privacy concerns. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd

My Muslim Kurdish brother: colonial rule and Islamist governmentality in the Kurdish region of Turkey

This article critically examines the role of Islamist state discourse and policies in the Kurdish region of Turkey. Academic works on Islamism often address settings where Islamist movements and political parties operate as anti-colonial and oppositional entities. However, this article discusses how Islamist ideology has become an instrument of governmentality to maintain and legitimize colonial rule in the Kurdish region of Turkey under the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP). After contextualizing the Kurdish issue as an internal colonization process since the beginning of the Turkish Republic, the paper focuses on the AKP period to analyse the use of an Islamic discourse of unity and brotherhood and attempts to foster the rise of a loyal conservative civil society among the Kurds. Thus, it argues that the internal colonial paradigm remains fully relevant to analysis of the Kurdish issue during the last decade and that neoliberal Islamist governmentality should be understood as a strategy complementary to repression, to increase popular support for the government and marginalize opposition

Conversion to civil society? The incomplete reconfiguration of the Hizbullah movement in Turkey

This article examines the incomplete transformation of the Kurdish Hizbullah from an illegal underground organization to a social and political movement influent in the Kurdish Turkey. The article contextualizes Hizbullah’s transformation within the broader social and political developments after the 2000s. After a critical evaluation of the reconfiguration of the Kurdish political sphere in Turkey, the article critically addresses the Hizbullah’s conversion to civil society. It analyses the Hizbullah’s strategies of reorganization and mobilization through associations, political activism and public celebrations under the AKP rule. While acknowledging the political and social impact of this reconfiguration, this article also underlines the limits of this process, with a special focus on the Kurdish question and the ambivalent approach to Kurdish identity and martyrdom promoted by the political leaders and supporters of the movement. Relying on boundary making theory, the article argues that the Hizbullah’s attempt to rearticulate religion and ethnicity to broaden its political and social base remains circumscribed by the hegemonic aspirations of the Turkish state on the one hand, and the ongoing antagonism with the Kurdish national movement on the other

A key-pose based representation for human action recognition

Ankara : The Department of Computer Engineering and the Graduate School of Engineering and Science of Bilkent University, 2011.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2011.Includes bibliographical references leaves 44-46.This thesis utilizes a key-pose based representation to recognize human actions in videos. We believe that the pose of the human figure is a powerful source for describing the nature of the ongoing action in a frame. Each action can be represented by a unique set of frames that include all the possible spatial configurations of the human body parts throughout the time the action is performed. Such set of frames for each action referred as “key poses” uniquely distinguishes that action from the rest. For extracting “key poses”, we define a similarity value between the poses in a pair of frames by using the lines forming the human figure along with a shape matching method. By the help of a clustering algorithm, we group the similar frames of each action into a number of clusters and use the centroids as “key poses” for that action. Moreover, in order to utilize the motion information present in the action, we include simple line displacement vectors for each frame in the “key poses” selection process. Experiments on Weizmann and KTH datasets show the effectiveness of our key-pose based approach in representing and recognizing human actions.Kurt, Mehmet CanM.S

Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey

An academic insider's account of the Islamist social movement Kurdish Hizbullah