Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine whether hope as a personal resource moderates the relationships between job burnout and frontline bank employees' in-role and extra-role performances. Design/methodology/approach: Frontline employees of several banks throughout the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus serve as the study setting. Findings: Results of the study reveal that burnout is significantly related to frontline employees' in-role and extra-role performances and that hope moderates these relationships. Research limitations/implications: Though common method bias does not appear to be a potential threat to the magnitude of relationships, in future studies using multiple-informants (e.g. performance data from supervisors or customers) would be useful. In addition, replication studies among front employees in other countries would be beneficial for further generalizations. Practical implications: Management of the banks should consider the personality traits of the individuals during the selection process. This is important, since hope reduces the detrimental impact of burnout on performance outcomes. Management should also retain employees high in hope, because such employees can create a positive work environment and serve as role models to their colleagues with low hope. Originality/value: Empirical research in the banks services literature pertaining to the effect of hope on extra-role performance and hope as a moderator of the impact of burnout on in-role and extra-role performances is scarce. Therefore, this study adds to the literature in this research stream by investigating the aforementioned relationships.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine whether hope as a personal resource moderates the relationships between job burnout and frontline bank employees' in-role and extra-role performances. Design/methodology/approach: Frontline employees of several banks throughout the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus serve as the study setting. Findings: Results of the study reveal that burnout is significantly related to frontline employees' in-role and extra-role performances and that hope moderates these relationships. Research limitations/implications: Though common method bias does not appear to be a potential threat to the magnitude of relationships, in future studies using multiple-informants (e.g. performance data from supervisors or customers) would be useful. In addition, replication studies among front employees in other countries would be beneficial for further generalizations. Practical implications: Management of the banks should consider the personality traits of the individuals during the selection process. This is important, since hope reduces the detrimental impact of burnout on performance outcomes. Management should also retain employees high in hope, because such employees can create a positive work environment and serve as role models to their colleagues with low hope. Originality/value: Empirical research in the banks services literature pertaining to the effect of hope on extra-role performance and hope as a moderator of the impact of burnout on in-role and extra-role performances is scarce. Therefore, this study adds to the literature in this research stream by investigating the aforementioned relationships.

This thesis investigates the European Union (EU) effect on the economic activity across the Green Line in the divided Cyprus between 2004 and 2016. The primary focus is on the development and implementation of the EU's Green Line Regulation (GLR), which regulates and enables such activity from three aspects: movement of goods, services, and persons. In tracing the EU effect, this thesis provides a critical appraisal of the GLR on whether it provides an adequate legal framework for the economic activity in those three aspects and the extent to which it has contributed to the development of economic cooperation between the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities across the divide. The analysis also pays an equal level of attention to the extent to which the EU effect has been mediated by the factors at the domestic level: the roles of legal framework, ethno-politics in political elites, ethno-politics in civil society, and governance. The investigation of this study is pegged in two academic literatures. The first one is the Europeanisation debate, which concerns with the EU effect in the domestic affairs of countries associated with the EU. This thesis borrows three mechanisms of Europeanisation from this debate in order to test the EU effect on the three aspects of economic activity across the divide in Cyprus: i) institutional compliance, ii) change of domestic opportunity structures, iii) cognitive change. The second academic literature is the liberal peace, which it proposes that greater economic interactions and development of economic interdependence between countries facilitate resolution of their conflicts. The insights from this debate is utilised for conceptualising the EU's GLR as a liberal peace project. While Europeanisation is portrayed as a 'process', liberal peace objectives are seen as the 'ultimate destination', which the 'vehicle' of the EU's GLR will drive the island towards it. This thesis argues that the GLR has only achieved a limited success and largely failed to contribute to the development of economic cooperation across the divide in Cyprus. This is mainly because the Europeanisation process have been heavily mediated and negated by the design shortcomings of the GLR as well as the factors at the domestic level, which are inherently linked to the politics of division. In this context, this thesis aspires to make contribution in both empirical and conceptual terms. The in-depth and critical investigation of the GLR as well as of the economic activity across the divide in Cyprus provides a much-needed contribution to the contemporary politics of Cyprus, which has been largely ignored by the existing academic literature. Additionally, the conceptual framework developed in this thesis allows exploring synergies between the theoretical literatures of Europeanisation and liberal peace and combines them with examination of new empirical evidence. This focus captures insights on how Europeanisation can be used as a 'tool' for pursuing liberal peace objectives in contested statehood, beyond what has been researched so far and also provides a blueprint for other similar cases of conflict.

This thesis takes the position that it is not clear that the aspirations and assumptions expressed by theories of international relations predicated on the narrative about the emergence of mature sovereign nation states acting within a system of such states offers a particularly helpful guide to political practices concerning boundaries and borders that are identified on the ground. This is especially the case if we pay attention to the specific practices of bordering in Cyprus. Through a reading of various sites of limitation and excess of Cypriot sovereignty – in relation to the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, the modern system involving Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom, the United Nations and the European Union, ongoing complexities such as British Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs) and the ethnically mixed village of Pyla/Pile – this thesis investigates the consequences and considers the implications, both theoretical and actual, that arise in Cyprus.

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Cette thèse porte sur l’analyse de l’activité de traduction philosophique dans le processus de modernisation de Turquie et l’évolution de la conception de la traduction au cours du temps. Dans un premier temps, notre thèse se concentre sur l’histoire de la traduction philosophique. Nous présentons les traductions des textes philosophiques dans la période des Tanzimat et la période après la fondation de la République. Dans un second temps, notre thèse se propose de mener une étude comparative entre les différentes traductions des textes philosophiques. Les questions qui se posent peuvent être énoncées comme suit. Quels types de politique ont-ils pu adopter aussi bien sur un plan théorique que sur le plan du choix des textes à traduire ? Les politiques adoptées ont-elles présentées des modifications notables et significatives tout au long de la période considérée, selon l'évolution de la demande émanant des lecteurs ou selon les exigences des pouvoirs politiques qui se sont succédé ? / This thesis deals with the analysis of the philosophical translation activity in the process of modernization of Turkey and the evolution of the conception of translation over time. First, my thesis focuses on the history of philosophical translation. I present translation activities in general and translations of philosophical texts in the Tanzimat period and the period after the founding of the Republic. In the second section, my thesis proposes to carry out a comparative study between the different translations of philosophical texts. The questions that arise can be stated as follows. What types of policies have they adopted both on the theoretical level and on the choice of the texts to be translated? Have the policies that were adopted resulted in significant changes throughout the period under review, depending on the evolution of the demand from the readers or the requirements of the political authorities that have followed one another?

The paper is dedicated to study and analysis of the Turkish government export promotion programs, developed in the late 80s early 90s. of the 20thcentury and their impact on foreign trade and foreign economic activities of the Turkish small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as on the development of trade and economic relations with Russia. The author reveals the key features of the formation of export promotion programs, identifies long-term strategic goals, directions, options and limitations of current programs directed to support the Turkish private sector. / Работа посвящена изучению и анализу правительственных программ стимулирования экспорта, разработанных в конце 80х начале 90х гг. ХХ века и их влияния на внешнеторговую и внешнеэкономическую деятельность турецкого малого и среднего предпринимательства, а также на развитие торговых и экономических отношений с Россией. Автор раскрывает ключевые особенности формирования программ поддержки экспорта, выявляет долгосрочные стратегические цели, направления, альтернативы и ограничения современных турецких программ поддержки частного сектора.