Analyzing Delinquency among Kurdish Adolescents uses Hirschi's social bonding theory to examine the mediating effect of social bonding on delinquent behavior among Kurdish teenagers, who were used as a case study to test the usefulness of this theory. In this study, participants were selected from one Gulen movement affiliated school and one public or non-Gulen affiliated school. This study sheds light on Turkish society's chaotic conditions in southeastern Turkey, particularly with respect to Kurdish adolescents' involvement in the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK). There is a lack of research...

This book explores the themes of citizenship in the migration of Turks to the United States. It discusses identity formation across generations among Turkish Americans and analyzes important differences between first and second generation Turkish Americans.