Rousettus aegyptiacus is active throughout the year in Turkey, where its morphology was studied collected from three localities in the south-west. The characteristics of the Turkish population were similar to those of the nominative subspecies. Moderate differences between the sexes were found in tibia length and total body length. The karyotype is 2n= 36, FN= 70, FNa= 66. The X chromosome is a large metacentric/submetacentric, and the Y chromosome is a dot-like acrocentric.
Since 2017, the International Women’s Strike (IWS) has generated a global wave of protest against patriarchy and capitalism, as well as racism, heteronormativity, extractivism, and imperialism. Th is contribution off ers refl ections on the transnational mobilization around IWS from the perspective of feminist strike as an emerging concept, and considers the current and historical implications of the IWS as feminist action. It argues that the concept of feminist strike allows us to place women’s paid and unpaid labor center stage, while it enables us to weave together multiple systems of oppression in the analysis of women’s struggle for liberation. Drawing on insights from the Turkish context, the paper aims to call attention to the left-feminist engagement with the IWS – and its lack thereof – in Central and Eastern Europe.
Secularism and state policies toward religion represent one of the most important issues in Turkey aver since the establishment of the republic in 1923. This contribution briefly summarizes the interpretation of secularism a la turca under the Kemalist leadership and highlights the significant changes that have happened in this area under the AKP government of Prime Minister Recep Tayip Endogan after 2002. The AKP's attempts to introduce Islam-based morality into public space waswelcomed by various religious communities while diminished pressure from the state authorities allowed religiously oriented Turkish movements to act more freely. With the AKP's consolidation of power, the Hizmet movement of Fethullah Gülen finally forged a closer alliance with Ergodan's government and so became an important source of political and economic support both in Turkey and abroad. THe article also shows that the "moderate" secularism as experienced under the current government relaxed the pressure on vocational schools for imams and preachers and transformed the understanding of the state Sunni-Muslim "Church" organization (Diyanet) in the eyes of former hard-line Islamists. Secular circles, however, reject these developments and new trends as signs of continuous Islamization., Gabriel Pirický., and Obsahuje bibliografii
The "Occupy Gezi" protest movement which swept through Istambul and many other Turkish cities in the summer of 2013 started as an ecological protest to save one of the last green areas of Istanbul. After a brutal police crackdown on protesters and the Prime Minister's unbending stance, the protests spread to the rest of the country in support of the young people who were rebelling against the AKP's increasingly authoritarian style of rule and against the gradual Islamization of Turkish politics and society. This article focuses on the creativity of protesters who, through their use of social media such as Twitter, showed that revolutions need not be about throuwing stones and Molotov coctails, but can instead be about playing with words and undermining the ruling elite's insulting remarks with sarcasm and wit. This postmodern revolution took place in a public space which resembled an art scene where singers artists, students and others joined to create a carneval of civic disobedience based on passive resistence, solidarity and humor., Gabriela Özel Volfová., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Chromosome numbers of taxa belonging to the Myosotis alpestris group are provided and/or confirmed. A chromosome count is reported for the first time for M. olympica. A new ploidy level (2n = 24) was revealed within M. stenophylla for which previously only tetraploid cytotypes are reported. Myosotis stenophylla is identified for the first time from Greece. Previous chromosome counts for M. ambigens, M. alpestris, M. atlantica, M. corsicana, M. lithospermifolia, and M. suaveolens are confirmed based on plants originating from karyologically poorly investigated parts of the distribution areas of this polyploid complex.
The species of the Isophya major-group (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae), are reviewed. I. major Brunner von Wattenwyl and I. mavromoustakisi Uvarov are redescribed. Two new species are described; Isophya mersinensis Sevgili & Çiplak sp. n. and Isophya salmani Sevgili & Heller sp. n. from south Anatolia. Illustrations of morphology and male calling song are provided and a detailed comparison of the four species in the group is presented. We conclude that these four species constitute a natural group in sharing male cerci with two or more denticles not ordered in a line, a character unique to this species group within the genus. From an evaluation of their morphology and song characteristics, relationships among the species in the group are I. major + (I. mersinensis sp. n. + (I. salmani + I. mavromoustakisi). Based on the the distribution pattern and habitat preference, we concluded that the division of I. salmani and I. mavromoustakisi was a vicariant event resulting from the separation of Cyprus and Anatolia due to reflooding of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis at the beginning of the Pliocene, around 5 My ago.
The pattern of morphometric differentiation among six populations of Clarias gariepinus sited in the Asi, Seyhan, Ceyhan, Göksu, Aksu, and Sakarya river systems in Turkey was examined. Univariate analysis of variance revealed significant differences between means of the six samples for 18 out of 20 standardized morphometric measurements. The first canonical function accounted for 39 % and the second for 29 % of between–group variability. In principal component analysis, the first component accounted for 20 % and the second for 12 % of the shape variations among the samples. Plotting the first and second principal components showed that the observed differences were mainly from measurements taken from the head of fish, indicating this region to be important in the description of population characteristics. Visual examination of the samples along the canonical functions revealed a clear between-sample differentiation. All the samples except the Seyhan and Aksu samples were clearly distinct from each other. Sakarya and Göksu samples were mostly isolated from each other and from all other samples. The overall random assignment of individuals into their original groups was high (78%). The proportion of correctly classified individuals into their original group was highest in the Sakarya sample (93%) and high in the Göksu (88 %) and the Ceyhan (86 %) samples, indicating that these samples are highly divergent from each other.
Different chromosomal races of the Nannospalax ehrenbergi (Nehring, 1898) complex inhabit south-eastern Turkey. In spite of the fairly restricted range of this mole rat in Turkey, no less than eight different karyotypes have been reported so far. These differ in diploid number (range from 52 to 58), fundamental number of chromosomal arms (ranging between 72 and 90) and in the fundamental number of autosomal arms (ranging from 68 to 86). The most common chromosomal form is 2n = 52, NF = 76, NFa = 72, which is known from Southeast Anatolia. In this paper I report on a new N. ehrenbergi karyotype from south-eastern Turkey. In 18 specimens investigated, the diploid number of chromosomes was 2n = 56, NF = 66, and NFa = 62. The karyotype consisted of 4 pairs of metacentrics/submetacentrics and 23 pairs of acrocentrics. The X chromosome was medium-sized submetacentric and the Y chromosome was small acrocentric. This chromosomal set is different to the most common Turkish N. ehrenbergi karyotype (2n = 52) and also differs markedly from the known chromosomal forms from Gaziantep (2n = 56, NF = 82, NFa = 78) and Tarsus (2n = 56, NF = 72, NFa = 68 ).
Selected populations of five closely related species of the genus Cicada L. were collected mainly on the Portuguese, Greek and Turkish mainland, as well as on several Aegean islands. Ten morphometric traits of external structures and seven of male genitalia were analysed and the results revealed patterns in morphometric variation for each species. Only C. lodosi was always completely discriminated by both character sets and C. barbara by the male genitalia analysis. For the remaining species there was great overlap between the clusters. Body length, of the external morphological structures, and measurements of the pygophore, of the male genitalia, were the best variables for identifying C. lodosi and C. barbara. The present morphometric analyses revealed that divergence in morphology is much less pronounced than the divergence in acoustic signals and DNA. Thus, the congruence between morphological divergence, namely at the level of the external structures, and both behavioural (acoustic) and genetic divergence is quite low.
Three species of Ceranisus Walker, 1841 (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Entedoninae) were collected recently in Turkey, including C. menes (Walker, 1839) and C. pacuvius (Walker, 1841) in southeastern Anatolia. A new species, C. hirsutus Doğanlar & S. Triapitsyn, is described from Şanliurfa Province. The genus Urfacus Doğanlar, 2003 is synonymized under Ceranisus and its type species, U. bozovaensis Doğanlar, 2003 is transferred to Ceranisus as C. bozovaensis (Doğanlar, 2003) comb. n., and the species is redescribed from the new material. An identification key to both sexes of Ceranisus from Turkey and Europe is provided.