In Nederland bestaan er verschillende mogelijkheden om mensen met een beperking te ondersteunen, waaronder het inzetten van assistentiehonden. Eén van de organisaties in Nederland die verantwoordelijk is voor de opleiding van assistentiehonden is BultersMekke Assistance Dogs, waarvoor dit onderzoek is …

In this day and age, social media has become an integral part of modern society. Protest movements are utilising new media more than ever seen before, specifically social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter. This thesis provides an analysis of the role that social media played during the Gezi …

The Turkish Republic has a great history with major defeats and victories in its past. Since the fourteenth century Turkey was part of the Ottoman Empire. During the following centuries, the Empire expanded and covered areas which are nowadays known as Europe, Asia and North Africa. The twentieth century …

This research paper analyses the concept of cultural diplomacy and what role it could play on promoting Human Rights and building sustainable peace in the Eastern Mediterranean, with a specific focus on Turkey. After the recent events occurred in the Middle East, the so called Arab Spring, Turkey has …

Turkey's historical focus on the European Union dates back to the Ottoman period. In this era, numerous developments clearly illustrated Turkey's focus on the EU. These developments included among others the Tanzimat, literally 'reorganisation', which implies secularization of the judicial system, and …

This thesis aims to test the credibility of the Responsibility to Protect principle ("R2P") by looking at how the principle was applied in Libya and addressing the question of why R2P was not applied in Syria. The first part of the thesis is about the origins and definition of R2P. The second part compares …

Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd in opdracht van 's Heeren Loo Oost-Nederland en richt zich op Turkse families met een gehandicapt kind. De onderzoeksvraag die beantwoordt is, luidt als volgt: "In hoeverre sluit het huidige zorgaanbod van 's Heeren Loo Oost-Nederland aan op de behoeften van Turkse families …

Dit artikel besteed aandacht aan de context en omstandigheden van het werken aan een internationaal onderwijsproject, in dit geval gericht op verbetering van het onderwijs in Turkije ten behoeve van leerlingen met speciale onderwijsbehoeften. In dit project lag de nadruk op kwaliteitsverbetering, het …

A damage estimation exercise has been carried out using the building stock inventory and population database of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and selected European earthquake loss estimation packages: KOERILOSS, SELENA, ESCENARIS, SIGE, and DBELA. The input ground-motions, common to all models, …