Capital Ankara Research Articles

Resilience and life quality of health professionals in capital of Turkey during COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract Background COVID-19 pandemic has had significant effects on physical and mental health of health professionals. It is thought that resilience protects individuals against mental illness and helps individuals cope with difficulties and stress more effectively. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate resilience, life quality and related factors of health professionals during COVID-19 pandemic. Methods A cross-sectional study was performed among health professionals working at a tertiary hospital in Turkey’s capital Ankara. An occupation based stratified sampling was done with taking alpha 0.05 and 1-beta 0.80. A questionnaire that consists of sociodemographic information, COVID-19 Impact on Quality of Life Scale and Connor Davidson Resilience Scale was used to collect data. The results of scales were divided into two parts by taking the median values as cut off points. Descriptive/inferential statistics and logistic regression were performed on IBM’s SPSS 27.0 program. Results A total of 987 participants were surveyed. 66% of them were female, and the average age was 36. Multivariate logistic regression analysis results that physicians (OR:1.48, 95% CI:1.05-2.07, p = 0.024) and nurses (OR:1.46, 95% CI:1.08-1.97, p = 0.013) have lower resilience. The impact of COVID-19 on quality of life was higher for the following groups; physicians (OR:2.07, 95% CI:1.43-3, p < 0.001), nurses (OR:1.61, 95% CI:1.10-2.36, p = 0.013), who have bachelor/higher degrees (OR: 1.54,95% CI: 1.02-2.31,p=0.038), infected with COVID-19 (OR:1.33, 95% CI:1.02-1.74, p = 0.034), have COVID-19 related relative lost (OR:1.42, 95% CI:1.06-1.89, p = 0.016), and live with risk groups (OR:1.31, 95% CI:1.01-1.71, p = 0.042). Conclusions Physicians and nurses who take care of patients one-on-one have lower resilience and higher decrease in life quality due to COVID-19 impacts. This result indicates a significant quality drop in health services is inevitable during pandemics and should be considered by the policy makers. Key messages • Policies should be developed to increase the resilience of healthcare professionals so that they can effectively combat public health emergencies such as COVID-19 and not affect their quality of life. • It is necessary to determine risk groups among health workers and plan training programs to increase resilience.

Investigation of the Effect of Climate Change on Extreme Precipitation: Capital Ankara Case

This study examines the potential impacts of climate change on extreme precipitation. Rainfall analysis with stationary and nonstationary approach for observed and future conditions is performed for (1950-2015 period) observed data of 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes and 1, 2, 3, 6 hour and projections (2015-2098 period) of 10, 15 minutes and 1, 6 hour for Ankara province, Turkey. Daily projections are disaggregated to finer scales, 5 minutes storm durations, then five minutes time series aggregated to the storm durations that are subject of interest. Nonstationary Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) models and stationary GEV models for observed and future data are obtained. Nonstationary model results are in general exhibited smaller return level values with respect to stationary model results of each storm duration for observed data driven model results. Considering the projected data driven model results; on average nonstationary models produce mostly lower return levels for mid and longer return periods for all storm durations and return periods except one hour storm duration. Depending on the models and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP), there are different results for the future extreme rainfall input; yet all results indicate a decreasing extreme trend.

A HOLISTIC VIEW OF POST OFFICE BUILDINGS IN ANKARA'S CHANGING FACE

Communication network centre in Istanbul during the Imperial period, moved to capital Ankara thanks to establishment of T.B.M.M. and Republic of Turkey. In this study, from Empire to Republic of Turkey's modernization process, in the fields of reflection on architecture and urbanism is explored through the Ankara post office building in Ulus. Aim: The change and transformation of the post office buildings built in Ulus is handled from a holistic perspective without ignoring the multi-layered, changing and diversifying plural identities of the historical environment. Method: Based on literature and archive scanning, city plans, photographs and postcards are used as urban memory tools. These inventories allow visual, spatial and relational analysis to be made in defining the three post office buildings and their surroundings. Results: With this approach, which is discussed in the study, the breaking points that define the change and transformation processes of the post office buildings have been determined. The effects of the intangible and tangible qualities of the post office buildings and their surroundings on the spatial identity of the historical environment were determined. Conclusion: In the study, it has been observed that the structural losses experienced due to integrity negatively affect the continuity of the historical environment.

An Analysis on the Ministry of Health Building in the Early Republican Era

Başkent Ankara’da, Bakanlık yapıları, siyasi gücün temsiliyetini üstlenen sembolik yapılardır. Cumhuriyetin ilanının ardından inşa süreci başlayan bu yapılar günümüz Ankara’sında halen varlığını sürdürmektedir. Yapıların bazıları inşa edildiği tarihten bu yana aynı işleve hizmet ederken bazıları ise farklı işlevlere devredilmiş veya boşaltılmıştır. Araştırma kapsamında Erken Cumhuriyet döneminde inşa edilen ve dönemi konu edinen araştırmalarda ilk “modern” yapı olarak karşımıza çıkan Sağlık Bakanlığı binası ele alınmaktadır. Yapı, Cumhuriyet döneminde inşa edilen ilk modern yapı olarak anılsa da mevcut yazında yapıya ilişkin detaylı bir araştırma bulunmamaktadır. Çalışma hem bu duruma dikkat çekmeyi hem de yapının mevcut durumunu, Modern Mimarlık Mirası’nın korunmasına ilişkin yazın kapsamında, tartışmayı amaçlamaktadır. Avusturyalı mimar Theodor Jost tarafından tasarlanan yapı hem mimari üslup bakımından Uluslararası mimarinin Türkiye’deki ilk örneği olması hem de 90 yılı aşan geçmişiyle önemli bir değerdir. Kültürel ve tarihi belleğin sürdürülebilmesi adına modern mimari yapıların korunarak geleceğe aktarılması önem arz etmektedir. Bu amaçla yapının 2009 yılında geçirdiği yenileme projeleri ile birlikte mevcut iç mekânı değerlendirmeye alınmış ve bu veriler uluslararası tüzük ve anlaşmalarda öne çıkan noktalar doğrultusunda belirlenen ölçütler çerçevesinde irdelenmiştir.

“ZAMANI GELMİŞTİ!”: BAŞKENT ANKARA’NIN İLK ON YILI ÜZERİNE BİR SERGİ VE BİR KİTAP

“Bir Sehir Kurmak: Ankara 1923-33”, which is one of the researchs on the Republican capital Ankara, is an exhibition and a book. The book, which is the permanent product of the exhibition, and the research, which we hope will come and continue, tells the story of many and other Ankara(s) in different layers, contrary to the depictions of the stereotyped Republican Ankara we are accustomed to seeing. The research hosted by the exhibition and the book benefits from the various possibilities of written and visual media. A new archive was added to the old archives of Ankara postcards, thanks to this research; but even more, the concept of “non-existent postcards” in the exhibition and the book seems to pave the way for other possible Ankara studies. With the informative material of this intensive research, a virtual modeling of Yenisehir region of Ankara in the first decade of it being the capital was produced. Above all, the products of this research questions the gaps rather than filling them, and describe the old with the new rather than aggrandizing the old. It is not a complete research or a product, but anticipating and desiring to built an Ankara from 1923-1933”.

ÖCÜ GEÇMİŞ, YÜCELTİLEN BUGÜN VE UMUTLU GELECEK: TÜRK KADIN YOLU DERGİSİ’NDE SİYASİ SÖYLEM

Cumhuriyetin ilanı ve beraberinde gelen dönem; olağanüstü değişimlerin görüldüğü, yeni rejimin yerleşebilmesi ve kendini kabul ettirebilmesi için geçmişinden, özellikle Osmanlı mirasından kopması gerektiğinin düşünüldüğü bir dönemdir. Kemalist milliyetçiliğin inşa süreci olarak adlandırılan bu dönemde Osmanlı mirası bazen tamamen bazen de yer yer reddedilerek Türklerin Orta Asya kökenlerine kadar inen bir Türk milliyetçiliği ön plana çıkarılmıştır. 1925-1927 yıllarıarasında Türk Kadınlar Birliği’nin yayın organı olarak yayımlanan Türk Kadın Yolu Dergisi’nde de bu reddi mirasın izlerine rastlanır. Bu çalışmada Türk Kadın Yolu Dergisi’ndeki siyasi söylem incelenmiştir. Dergi içeriğindeki yazılar irdelendiğinde; geçmişin, o günün ve geleceğin, bir sac ayağı gibi üç şekilde algılandığı ve bu algıların da derginin siyasi söylemini oluşturduğu sonucuna varılmıştır. Bu siyasi söylem öcü geçmiş, yüceltilen bugün ve umutlu gelecek olarak özetlenebilir. Çünkü, Osmanlı’dan kopuşun ve bu geçmişe yapılan eleştirilerin odağında Tük Kadın Yolu Dergisi’nde geçmişin adeta öcü olarak görüldüğünü söylemek yanlış olmaz. Öte yandan, kazanılan bağımsızlık savaşı sonrasında yeni bir rejim kurmanın, başarılan inkılapların ve yaşanılan toplumsal dönüşümün yarattığı haklı gururla, içerisinde bulunulan dönem oldukça yüceltilmiştir. Öcü geçmişi silip atan kurtarıcı kahraman olarak, yüceltilen günün temel simgesi ise Mustafa Kemal Paşa ve yarattığı başkent Ankara’dır. İnkılapların yarattığı dönüşüm rüzgârı ise duyulan gururun sebebi ve geleceğe dair beslenen umutların temeli olarak siyasi söylemde kendine yer bulur.

Investigation of The Effect of Climate Change on Stormwater Networks: Capital Ankara Case

Bu çalışmada Ankara İlinin geçmiş dönem ve gelecekteki aşırı yağış ve arazi kullanımı/örtüsü değişim analiz sonuçları, Ankara İli Etimesgut ilçesinde yeni inşa edilen bir pilot çalışma alanının yağmur suyu şebekesi için uygulanmıştır. Sistemin performansı, mevcut ve değişen koşullar ile durağan ve durağan olmayan aşırı yağış varsayımı gibi farklı yaklaşımlar altında araştırılmıştır. Sistemin iklim değişikliği projeksiyonları altında yeterli ve beklenen servisi sağlayabileceği ve aşırı yağış için yapılan iklim değişikliği projeksiyonlarına göre sistemin temel tasarımda öngörülen maksimum kapasiteyi projeksiyon süresi boyunca aşmayacağı söylenebilir. Değişen iklim ve arazi kullanım/örtü koşulları birlikte değerlendirildiğinde sistem, 15 dakikalık yağış süresi ve 2 yıl tekerrür periyodu ile akış katsayısı olarak 0,8 kullanılan temel tasarım için tatmin edici bir performans ortaya koymaktadır. Öte yandan sistem gözlem verisi ile yapılan durağan ve durağan olmayan analizlerden elde edilen daha uzun yağış süreleri (30 dakika veya daha fazla gibi) veya daha yüksek tekerrür süreleri (5 yıl ve daha fazlası gibi) ile ayrı ayrı veya birlikte hesaplanan yükler altında beklenen servisi sağlayamayabilir ki bu süreler kritik bir altyapı tesisi ve alan için tercih edilen bir tasarım girdisidir.

Coverage of bombings for political advantage: Turkish on-line news reporting of the 2016 Ankara attacks

ABSTRACTOn 17 February 2016, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing 28 people and injuring another 61 in the “heart” of Turkey’s capital Ankara. A few hours after the attack, the Turkish government blamed Salih Neccar from the (mostly) Kurdish-Syrian People’s protection Unit (YPG). Two days later, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) claimed responsibility and named the bomber as Abdülbaki Sömer a Turkish citizen. The bombing is part of a resumption of violence in Turkey between Turkish government authorities and Kurdish groups. In this paper, we examine how on-line news stories recontextualise the bombing. We assert that news sources multimodally recontextualise the bombing in ways which are advantageous to the news organisations’ owners, political alliances and supporters. By each news source representing their political interests unquestionably positive and opposition unconditionally negative, polarisation in Turkish politics is articulated. This does nothing to solve problems and heal wounds in a time of national crisis.

Large-Scale Change in the Capital Ankara after the Declaration of the Republic: The Construction of Modern Life and Modern Spaces

Large-Scale Change in the Capital Ankara after the Declaration of the Republic: The Construction of Modern Life and Modern Spaces

A survey of software engineering practices in Turkey

Understanding the types of software engineering (SE) practices and techniques used in industry is important. There is a wide spectrum in terms of the types and maturity of SE practices conducted in industry. Turkey has a vibrant software industry and it is important to characterize and understand the state of its SE practices. Our objective is to characterize and grasp a high-level view on type of SE practices in the Turkish software industry. To achieve this objective, we systematically designed an online survey with 46 questions based on our past experience in the Canadian and Turkish contexts and using the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK). Two hundred and two practicing software engineers from the Turkish software industry participated in the survey. The survey results reveal important and interesting findings about SE practices in Turkey and beyond. They also help track the profession of SE, and suggest areas for improved training, education and research. Among the findings are the followings: (1) The military and defense software sectors are quite prominent in Turkey, especially in the capital Ankara region, and many SE practitioners work for those companies. (2) 54% of the participants reported not using any software size measurement methods, while 33% mentioned that they have measured lines of code (LOC). (3) In terms of effort, after the development phase (on average, 31% of overall project effort), software testing, requirements, design and maintenance phases come next and have similar average values (14%, 12%, 12% and 11% respectively). (4) Respondents experience the most challenge in the requirements phase. (5) Waterfall, as a rather old but still widely used lifecycle model, is the model that more than half of the respondents (53%) use. The next most preferred lifecycle models are incremental and Agile/lean development models with usage rates of 38% and 34%, respectively. (6) The Waterfall and Agile methodologies have slight negative correlations, denoting that if one is used in a company, the other will less likely to be used. The results of our survey will be of interest to SE professionals both in Turkey and world-wide. It will also benefit researchers in observing the latest trends in SE industry identifying the areas of strength and weakness, which would then hopefully encourage further industry–academia collaborations in those areas.

Democratic environments offered to children at school, in the family, and in society: the case of Turkey

This research aims to investigate democratic environments offered to children in Turkey at school, in the home, and in society. A mixed method is a general type of research where qualitative and quantitative methods are used together. The researcher first collects quantitative and then the qualitative data. The study group in the research consisted of children in Kirsehir, a small city near the capital Ankara, in central Turkey. Democratic Environments scale and interview forms were used in the research. To analyze the obtained data, arithmetic averages, standard deviations, and percentages were calculated and multivariate analyses of variance conducted. The data obtained during interviews were analyzed through content analysis. Results show that even though Turkey accepts the Convention on the Rights of the Child, some problems remain associated with the democratic environment offered to children at school, at home, and in society.

Analysis of the Electromagnetic Pollution for a Pilot Region in Turkey

In this paper, electromagnetic (EM) pollution (or radiation) measurements in a transmitter region were performed and statistical analysis of values recorded for the EM sources causing pollution was carried out. The actual measurement values and the estimated values by the analysis model obtained through the statistical analysis were compared. EM radiation levels were measured in the districts of Turkish capital Ankara where cellular base stations and TV/Radio stations are densely populated. EM Radiation (EMR) levels were measured for the GSM900, GSM1800, UHF4, VHF4 and VHF5 stations for certain spectrum ranges under far-field conditions by utilizing isotropic field probe and selective spectrum analyzer. The obtained measurement levels were compared with the limit values given by International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). The results are discussed, regarding both the obtained values that influence the measurements.

Residential transformation of squatter settlements: Urban redevelopment projects in Ankara

Since the 1980s, many cities have been facing the problems of a transforming city instead of the problems of a growing city. One such Turkish city is the capital Ankara. Along with the problems of transforming the city center, planners and policy-makers have had to deal with the impact of the changes in the residential areas of the city. Increasingly, urban redevelopment projects have been their main tools for controlling the transformation of residential areas, especially squatter settlements. This paper compares and evaluates three urban redevelopment projects in Ankara. These projects attempted to turn squatter settlements into residential areas with a high environmental quality and better living conditions. Even though all three projects had the same goal, their outcomes have been different. Hopefully, this comparative review will help improve the policies and models so they could be beneficial to other urban redevelopment projects.