Turkish Team Research Articles

Some Useful and Unusual Eponymous Cardiac Surgical Techniques Adopted in Chittagong Medical College Hospital

Background: Innovation is an integral part of cardiac surgery. A number of natural barriers had to be overcome by the cardiac surgery pioneers to establish open heart surgeries in the 1950s. Since then, surgeons are continuously developing and adopting various innovative techniques to ensure safety and efficacy of cardiac surgery. The Department of Cardiac Surgery of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) has some unique characteristics as it was developed isolated from the centers of Dhaka. A few interesting methods are in practice here, which worth mentioning for the outside readers. Some of these procedures have been colloquially named in our department often after the visiting surgeon or the team who introduced those here. Methods: The unique and unusual techniques applied in CMCH were sought and discussed. The hospital records, OT operation notes and ICU log books were thoroughly searched for any clue. The local and visiting team members were interviewed for any information. All available data were compiled and analyzed. Results: Six interesting and useful named surgical techniques adopted in CMCH Cardiac Surgery Department were identified. These are: 1. Marine city ASD Closure Technique, 2. Tendolkar’s Maneuver during CPB, 3. Turkish Sling in CABG, 4. Petlar Stitch in VSD closure, 5. Pyongyang Method of LA Closure and 6. NAK-NAKA De-calcification Procedure for valve surgery. The first two were introduced with the help of visiting Indian Professor Anil Tendolkar, whereas the 3rd was introduced by a visiting Turkish team. The 4th technique was adopted from a pediatric cardiac surgeon from Dhaka. The 5th and 6th techniques have long been in practice at NICVD, which were adopted with some modification in our department. Conclusion: The above mentioned six reproducible techniques are unique and useful. Sharing and discussion of these techniques will enable other Bangladeshi surgeons to adopt these useful tips. Cardiovasc j 2024; 16(2): 86-91

Dark personality traits and soccer fanaticism: the mediating role of attachment styles

ABSTRACT Soccer fanaticism is a widespread form of violence, and its history goes back decades.In this study, the multiple mediator roles of attachment styles (ASs) in the relationship between dark personality traits (DPTs: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) and soccer fans’ fanaticism (FFF) levels were examined. Three hundred twenty-nine soccer fans of 10 Turkish teams competing in various leagues,constituting 205 maleand 124 femalefans, participated in the study. The data were analysed with the Hayes model 4 using the DDS, the FSFF, and RSQ.Parallel mediation analysis showed that only the psychopathy sub-dimension of DPT positively affected FFF significantly. Similarly, the preoccupied attachment (PA) style positively predicted FFF scores. A 1-unit increase in PA scores increased a 0.21-unit decrease in the FFF scores. Besides, the PA mediated the relationship between DPT and FF negatively.These results were interpreted as inadequate interventions for gaining positive self-esteem and internalizing social rules during childhood and adolescence at the root of fanaticism.

Home Advantage and Away Disadvantage of Turkish Football Teams in European Competitions

Home advantage (HA) is used as a concept that means teams win more matches and score more goals than their opponents on their home field. Similarly, away disadvantage (AD) can be explained as teams scoring fewer points and scoring fewer goals away than their opponents. In this study, the matches played by 5 Turkish teams, played at least 30 matches in European competitions, between the 1991/1992 and 2022/2023 seasons, a total of 784 matches were analyzed and team-specific HA and AD values were estimated using Generalized Estimation Models. According to the results, all 5 Turkish teams have a significant HA in European competitions, but all teams also experience an AD and there is no difference among the teams in terms of both HA and AD. Furthermore, Belgian teams were found to be the teams where Turkish teams experienced the most home advantage and did not experience an away disadvantage. On the other hand, the teams with the lowest HA value and the highest AD value of Turkish teams were found to be Ukrainian teams. The results of the study show that playing in Türkiye is difficult for all European teams and that the AD of Turkish teams in countries with higher fan support is lower than in other countries.

Reconnaissance of 2020M 7.0 Samos Island (Aegean Sea) earthquake.

The Samos Island (Aegean Sea) Earthquake occurred on 30 October 2020. It produced a tsunami that impacted coastal communities, ground shaking that was locally amplified in some areas and that led to collapse of structures with 118 fatalities in both Greece and Turkey, and wide-ranging geotechnical effects including rockfalls, landsliding, and liquefaction. As a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the reconnaissance of this event did not involve the deployment of international teams, as would be typical for an event of this size. Instead, following initial deployments of separate Greek and Turkish teams, the reconnaissance and documentation efforts were managed in a coordinated manner with the assistance of international partners. This coordination ultimately produced a multi-agency joint report published on the 2-month anniversary of the earthquake, and this special issue. This paper provides an overview of the reconnaissance activities undertaken to document the effects of this important event and summarizes key lessons spanning topic areas from seismology to emergency response.

Can Social Media Predict Soccer Clubs’ Stock Prices? The Case of Turkish Teams and Twitter

Finance literature in sports focuses on three main methods of stock price prediction in soccer: based on match results, pre-match expectations, or match importance. For pre-match expectations, betting odds is commonly used as the indicator of investors’ sentiments. We propose to include Twitter data as another indicator of this variable, and analyze the links among soccer match results, sentiments, and stock returns of the four major Turkish soccer teams. Our results show that social media can be a strong indicator of pre-match expectations and investors’ sentiments in stock price prediction.

Ethical and Legal Implications of Third-Party Incentives to Win Matches in European Football

ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the legal case involving the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS), the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), and the Turkish team Eskişehirspor to analyze the legitimacy of third-party incentives to win in European professional football. We first present arguments for the legalization of such incentives. Then, we analyze four ethical arguments, namely the equivalency argument, the conventionalist argument, the integrity argument, and the fairness argument. We conclude that none of the arguments provides enough ground for the legalization of third-party incentives in European professional football.

Football tourist trips: a new analytic for tourism studies

This article explores the significance of touristic trips by European football fans. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with supporters of the Turkish team Beşiktaş, I argue that journeys to watch sides play constitute an ‘exceptional habit’, a ritualised shot of unorthodoxy that provides structure for other practices of football support. These trips are characterized by bodily practices less common in everyday life, such as mass imitation, fighting and drinking to excess. Yet examining fans' home lives also shows how they draw on exceptional practices to prepare for and memorialise the away match experience. Tracking both everyday and exceptional aspects of football support helps rebalance tourism studies: away from disproportionate focus on the touristic moment to considering its interpolation with everyday life.

YAYINLAN(MA)MIŞ HATIRALAR BAĞLAMINDA TÜRKİYE DE YÜKSEKÖĞRETİMİN AMERİKANİZASYONU: KURUCU KADROYA İLİŞKİN ANLATILAR VE İŞLETME İKTİSADI ENSTİTÜSÜ

This study examines the Americanization of Turkish higher education in field of business administration after US-Turkey rapprochement. The study aims to explore the effects of American influence and roles of so-called ‘Turkish Team” on Turkish business education through personal narratives of the key persons of the period. Individual carriers like professors, advisors and technical experts are important actors as well as institutional actors such as Ford Foundation, AID (Agency for International Development) and Harvard University in the diffusion of management knowledge. For this purpose, a historical narrative approach is constructed to allow for in-depth analysis of American influence on Turkish business education. To reach the aim of the study, the data are gathered from multiple sources that include published and unpublished memoirs, biographies and autobiographies, archival materials, various kinds of text and commentary and archival articles of newspapers, annual reports and yearbooks. Narrative analysis is used in this study to explore the context, content and scope of effects of American influence on Turkish business education. Research results show that, American influence on Turkish business education has various kinds of effects includes teaching and researching styles and departmentalization of business education.

Modelling home advantage for individual teams in UEFA Champions League football

BackgroundHome advantage (HA) is well documented in a wide range of team sports including association football (soccer). Although much attention has been paid to differences in the overall magnitude of HA between football competitions and across time, few studies have investigated HA at the team level. MethodsA novel method of estimating HA for individual teams, based solely on home performance, was used to compare HA between the highest performing teams and countries in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League over a 10-year period (2003/2004 to 2012/2013). Away disadvantage (AD) was also estimated based on each team's performance away from home. Poisson regression analysis was used to estimate covariate adjusted HA and AD in terms of the percentage of goals scored at home (HA) and conceded away from home (AD). ResultsWhen controlling for differences in team ability, HA did not vary significantly between the 13 selected teams. There was evidence (p < 0.1), however, of between-team variation in AD, ranging from 45% (away advantage) to 68% (away disadvantage). When teams were grouped into the 11 selected countries, both HA and AD varied significantly (p < 0.02) between countries: HA ranged from 52% for Turkish teams to 70% for English teams, while AD ranged from 52% (France) to 67% (Turkey). ConclusionDifferences in style of play and tactical approaches to home and away matches may explain some of the variation in HA and AD between teams from different countries.

Standards in Collaborative International Disaster Drills: A Case Study of Two International Search and Rescue Drills

During the last few decades, various global disasters have rendered nations helpless (such as Thailand's tsunami and earthquakes in Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, and India). A lack of knowledge and resources make it difficult to address such disasters. Preparedness for a national disaster is expensive, and in most cases, unachievable even for modern countries. International collaboration might be useful for coping with large-scale disasters. Preparedness for international collaboration includes drills. Two such drills held by the Israeli Home Front Command and other military and civilian bodies with the nations of Greece and Turkey are described in this article. The data were gathered from formal debriefings of the Israeli teams collaborating in two separate drills with Greek and Turkish teams. Preparations began four months before the drills were conducted and included three meetings between Israeli and foreign officials. The Israeli and foreign officials agreed upon the drill layout, logistics, communications, residence, real-time medicine, hardware, and equipment. The drills took place in Greece and Turkey and lasted four days. The first day included meetings between the teams and logistics preparations. The second and third days were devoted to exercises. The drills included evacuating casualties from a demolition zone and treating typical injuries such as crush syndrome. Every day ended with a formal debriefing by the teams' commanders. The fourth day included a ceremony and transportation back home. Members in both teams felt the drills improved their skills and had an important impact on creating common language that would enhance cooperation during a real disaster. A key factor in the management of large-scale disasters is coordination between countries. International drills are important to create common language within similar regulations.

Epidemiological multicenter study on osteoporosis: the EDMUSTO study

To the Editor Osteoporosis (OP) has been recognized as a worldwide major public health problem. Several risk factors have been identiWed to play a role in OP and the relevant literature comprises some descriptive studies within several countries [1–9]; however to our best knowledge, epidemiological diVerences among speciWc countries have not been fully reported hitherto. EDMUSTO was primarily conducted to provide an insight into understanding the epidemiological comparisons among three countries—namely Turkey, Iran and Poland—with regard to OP. The results with speciWc remark on eye and hair colors are presented in this paper. Six hundred and thirty-four postmenopausal women (461 from Turkey, 101 from Iran and 72 from Poland) with a diagnosis of OP were enrolled in the EDMUSTO study. During patient registration and data recording, a common style was utilized by all of the physicians in each country. Then, the forms were gathered and analyzed by the Turkish team. Demographical parameters included age, body weight and height, eye and hair color, education level, age and type of menopause, duration of OP, history of fracture, family history of OP and fractures, physical activity, high alcohol intake, heavy smoking, heavy caVeine intake and daily calcium intake. BMD evaluations were carried out by using DEXA of lumbar and femoral regions. Current treatments were also recorded. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square tests were performed for the comparison of three countries. Analysis of variance, Kruskal–Wallis analysis of variance and multiple comparisons were used to evaluate post hoc diVerences. Student’s t test and Mann–Whitney U test were performed to test the diVerences between two groups. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for all calculations and statistical signiWcance was set at P < 0.05. When compared among the countries; the mean age values of Turkey (62.73 § 9.62) and Iran (63.85 § 9.80) were indiVerent, but that of Poland (68.10 § 7.84) was higher (P = 0.00). We have found signiWcant diVerences between the countries as far as BMI, age of menopause, eye/hair color, educational level, fracture history, family history of fracture, heavy smoking, daily Ca intake and physical activity, treatment alternatives and BMD values were concerned (all P values < 0.05) (Fig. 1, 2, 3). Furthermore, when all the results were recruited as a single data, we have Y. Gokce-Kutsal · L. Ozcakar (&) Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey e-mail: lozcakar@yahoo.com

SALAMİS KENTİ ROMA HAMAMI

Salamis was one of the most prosperous cities of Cyprus during the Roman period. The city’s wealth was evidently derived from its location on a strategically important point within the eastern Mediterranean trade network. Archaeological excavations resumed at Salamis in 1998 under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Coskun Ozgunel from the Ankara University increased our archaeological knowledge on this important city. These archaeological excavations conducted by the Turkish team currently concentrate on the Roman remains at Salamis. Among these Roman remains, attention has also been placed upon the poorly understood bath structure in the course of field studies between 2000 and 2005. However, it is the recent studies carried out by the Turkish team that helped to identify the units of this Roman bath, including praefurnium, storage room, caldarium, two tepidaria, an intermediate space, frigidarium, and apodyterium. The bath is located in the northern part of the city where numerous large-scale public buildings such as bath-gymnasium, theater, amphitheatre and stadium are found.

Performance of soccer on the stock market: Evidence from Turkey

This paper assesses the effect of soccer success on stock market returns for three major Turkish teams (Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray) after certain characteristics of the stock market are controlled for. The empirical evidence presented here suggests that Beşiktaş's win against foreign rivals in the Winner's Cup increases stock market returns. The same effect is not present for the other two big teams (Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray). The day of the week effect on the stock market and the relationship between risk and return are also presented.

Competition analysis Of World Greco-Roman and World free-style wrestling championships.

The aim of this study was to analyze the competitions of the 46th World Greco-Roman and in the 35th World Free-Style Championships, and to examine the technique values of the National Turkish Team as a case study. The Greco-Roman Championship was in the city of Patras in Greece at 6-9 December 2001. The Free-Style Championship was in Sofia at 21-25 December 2001. 334 Greco-Roman and 311 free-style fights were recorded and the analysis was done on these recordings. The pattern of winning, the finishing times, the technique numbers, the points and the passivity numbers of the whole and the classifying matches; the techniques that the Turkish Team used and applied were determined. For statistical analysis, ratio for one competition (ROC) for each parameter was calculated.In these championships, most of the Greco-Roman and the free-style matches finished in official time and by points in all weight categories. Same status is validity for the Turkish team and the classifying matches. In the Greco-Roman wrestling, total 1317 techniques (R: 3.94) were applied and 2231 points (ROC: 6.67) were taken; 593 passivity (ROC: 1.77) and 114 tying salto (ROC: 0.34) were performed. In the free-style 1590 techniques (ROC: 5.11) were applied and 2376 points (ROC: 7.64) were taken; 296 passivity (ROC: 0.95) and 32 tying salto (ROC: 0.10) were performed. The Turkish Greco-Roman Wrestling Team applied 51 techniques (ROC: 2.42) took 84 points (ROC: 4.2) and exposed to 37 techniques (ROC: 1.76) gave 62 points (ROC: 3.1). The Turkish Free-Style Wrestling Team applied 70 techniques (ROC: 2.91) took 114 points (ROC: 4.75) and exposed to 53 techniques (ROC: 2.91) gave 73 points (ROC: 3.04). In the Greco-Roman and free-style classifying matches, respectively 54 (ROC: 3.37) and 66 (ROC: 4.12) techniques were applied; 88 points (ROC: 5.50) were taken in both style.The most executed techniques were: gut wrench (29.62 %), tying salto (14.81 %) and counter to gut wrench (9.25 %) in the classifying Greco-Roman; leg tackle (36.36 %), gut wrench (16.66 %) and head drug (12.12 %) in the classifying free-style wrestling. The Turkish Greco-Roman Wrestling Team executed mostly gut wrench (33.33 %) and warning point (11.76 %); mostly exposed to gut wrench (21.62 %) and throw back (16.21 %). The Turkish Free-Style Wrestling Team executed mostly leg tackle (24.3 %) and gut wrench (20 %); exposed to mostly leg tackle (28.30 %), gut wrench (13.20 %) and double leg tackle (13.20 %).Wrestlers chose to take points without risk, and to be successful it was necessary to take 8 points in Greco-Roman and 7 points in free-style for one competition. To win a competition it’s important to apply and not expose to a technique. The National Turkish Greco-Roman Team was unsuccessful to apply a technique. National Turkish Free-Style Team didn’t wrestle as offensively as their successful rivals. The case study enabled an analysis of the performanceof the team and recommendations to be made for improvements in future competitions.

On the Problems of Karatepe: The Reliefs and their Context

It is a good maxim that all controversial archaeological issues should be reviewed regularly in the light of new material and/or changing perspectives; and certainly one of the most controversial issues in the history of the early first millennium B.C. in the Near East has been the dating of the reliefs and inscriptions built into the two Citadel Gates at Karatepe.The site itself, set on the west bank of the Ceyhan River in the northeast corner of Cilicia, sits on a natural hill just south of a spur of the foothills that mark the beginning of the juncture of the Taurus and Amanus mountain ranges (cf. Maps, Figs. 2, 3). It was first discovered and explored in 1946 by a Turkish team, headed by H. Th. Bossert, investigating ancient road systems of the “Neo-Hittite” period. Active field seasons were initiated at Karatepe, along with soundings at the neighbouring site of Domuztepe on the opposite bank of the Ceyhan, and were continued through the mid-1950s, since which time restoration has been in process at Karatepe under the direction of Professor Halet Çambel of Istanbul University.