Cyprus Studies

Türk modernleşme tecrübesinde basın ve yayın önemli bir görev üstlenmiş ve kurucu bir hüviyete sahip olmuştur. Düşünce dünyasının farklı kesimleri fikirlerini gazete ve dergiler vasıtasıyla halka iletmiş, halka modern anlamda vatan, millet, milliyet gibi kavramlar bu unsurlarla tanıtılmıştır. Cumhuriyet’in ilanının ardından din işlerini tanzim etmek maksadıyla kurulan Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, 1968’de Diyanet Gazetesi’ni neşretmeye başlamıştır. Dini meselelerin yanında halkın genel kültürünü de tahkim etme çabası gösteren Diyanet Gazetesi, devletin ortaya koyduğu politikalar hususunda da devlet siyasetini destekleyen bir duruş sergilemiştir. Bu duruşun önemli örneklerinden biri de 1974 Kıbrıs Barış Harekâtı sürecinde gazetenin yaptığı yayıncılık faaliyetlerinde görülebilir. Türkiye için büyük bir öneme sahip olan Kıbrıs Adası’nda çeşitli antlaşma ve sistemler denenmiş olmasına rağmen barış ve düzenin sağlanamamış olması ve Yunanistan’ın desteklediği askeri unsurların adanın meşru yönetimine askeri darbe gerçekleştirmesi sebebiyle Türkiye, uluslararası antlaşmalardan doğan garantörlük hakkı doğrultusunda 20 Temmuz 1974’te adaya bir harekât düzenlemiştir. Devleti destekleme misyonu doğrultusunda Diyanet Gazetesi Kıbrıs Barış Harekatı’na, harekât öncesi, harekât anı ve sonrasında yer vermiş ve devletin söylemine muvafık bir söylem ortaya koymuştur. Sonuç olarak Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı Diyanet Gazetesi vasıtası ile Türk düşünce geleneğindeki din ve siyasetin kardeş olduğu, devletin dini koruma ve yüceltme dinin ise onu desteklemekle görevli bulunduğu tasavvurunu hayata geçirmiştir. Çalışmada uluslararası meseleler karşısında Diyanet Gazetesi’nin nasıl bir söylem geliştirdiği probleminin Kıbrıs Barış Harekâtı süreci etrafında tetkik edilmesi amaçlanmış ve bu istikamette söylem analizi yöntemi ile gazetedeki Kıbrıs konulu yazılar incelenmiştir. Varılan sonuç ise Diyanet Gazetesi’nin Kıbrıs Barış Harekâtı sürecinde devlet siyasetini tahkim edici bir yayıncılık politikası izlediği olmuştur.

In the Turkish modernization experience, the press and media played an important role and had a founding identity. Different segments of the world of thought conveyed their ideas to the public through newspapers and magazines, and concepts such as homeland, nation and nationality were introduced to the public in these modern terms. The Presidency of Religious Affairs, which was established to organize religious affairs after the proclamation of the Republic, started to publish the Diyanet Gazetesi (Religious Affairs Newspaper) in 1968. The Diyanet Gazetesi, which strives to support the general culture of the people as well as religious issues, has taken a stance that supports the policy of the state regarding the policies put forward by the state. One of the important examples of this stance can be seen in the publishing activities of the newspaper during the 1974 Cyprus Peace Operation. Because even though various treaties and systems have been tried on the Cyprus which is an important island for Turkey, there has been always a failure to maintain order and peace, Greece supported to perform military coup to the island’s legitimate government, Turkey has made an operation in accordance with the right of guarantee arising from international treaties on 20 July 1974. In line with its mission to support the state, Diyanet Gazetesi included the Cyprus Peace Operation before, during and after the action and put forward a parallel discourse with the state. As a result, the Presidency of Religious Affairs has realized the understanding that religion and politics are brothers in the Turkish thought tradition and that the state is responsible for protecting and exalting religion while the religion supports it through Diyanet Gazetesi. In this study, it was aimed to examine the problem of how Diyanet Gazetesi developed discourse in the face of international issues around the Cyprus Peace Operation process and accordingly, the articles on Cyprus in the newspaper were analyzed by discourse analysis method. The conclusion was that Diyanet Gazetesi followed a publishing policy that supported state policy during the Cyprus Peace Operation.

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Kinyras: The Divine Lyre is also available online through the CHS website: http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/6329. The web version, however, does not have page numbers, so that internal cross-references cannot be easily followed. Hence the PDF here.

The history of Cypriot cities, in particular the capital, Nicosia and the main historical port of Famagusta, has been the subject of a wide variety of publications. However, the study of their urban form is relatively recent and, until the establishment of architectural schools within Cypriot universities, it has been carried out within research establishments outside of Cyprus. Consequently, urban morphological research in Cyprus is highly influenced by international schools of thought that were prevalent where researchers carried out their studies – most of them within Britain. The application of different morphological approaches is now being continued within Cypriot universities. This paper discusses how different approaches to urban morphological research have been deployed in the context of urban form studies of Cypriot cities. It reviews existing morphological studies, which date back to the 1980s, and also presents key research in related disciplines, such as planning. There is a strong focus in Cyprus on two approaches: the historico-geographical and the configurational, although typological studies also exist. Certain themes, especially relating to physical divisions and social interactions, also feature quite prominently in the literature.

In this paper, the School for Deaf Children that was opened under the rule of the British Administration in Cyprus is examined. The school was opened in the 1953– 1954 academic year and became the second private education institution on the island. Additionally, it was a mixed school that served both the Greek and Turkish communities. Although the school was initially opened with contributions from the Rotary Club, it continued to provide educational services with funds from the British Administration, students' parents and voluntary contributions. During the period of mixed education, the school could not adopt a fully settled structure in terms of the building in which it was locate and was moved to different areas during that period. In the period when the Brit-ish government transferred responsibility for the education on the island to the Greek and Turkish communities, the school continued to provide services on a mixed basis. However , after the events of 1963, the Turkish teachers and students began to leave the school. Today, it continues its activities in southern Nicosia, whereas in the northern part of the island, the Lapta School for People with Hearing and Speaking Disabilities was opened in 1975 in order for Turkish students to continue their education. The present study is supported with information obtained from Education reports and Cyprus Gazette resources as well as national and international works and verbal resources.

The University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art Seminar Series on the theme of 'ART & LAW' will take place every Wednesday from 18 January – 8 March 2017 at 5:00pm in the Department of History of Art, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge CB2 1PX. Each lecture will be followed by a Q&A session and informal drinks reception. Members of the university and the general public are welcome to attend.

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