EUROASIA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES

Do Remittances Induce Inflation? A Study for Developing Countries

2025-08-05T13:28:03+03:00

Scholars overwhelmingly have analyzed the effect of workers’ remittances on economic growth since remittances are perceived as the source of financing the capital in the receiving county. However, beside the positive effect of remittances on economic growth, they may deter the stability of the general price level and may cause higher inflation. Therefore, main objective of this study is to find the effect of remittances on inflation rate in 4 developing countries that receive the highest volume of remittances inflows in the world for the period 1990-2020. To do so, we have applied three panel data methods (FE, RE and one-step system GMM). At the end of the study, we have concluded that remittances induce inflation rate in the host county.

Echoes Across Texts: Intertextuality and Translation Issues in James Joyce’s Short Stories

2025-09-28T09:59:41+03:00

This article provides a comprehensive examination of the concept of intertextuality and its complex and significant role in literary translation. Intertextuality is one of the key literary strategies used by authors to create multi-layered and symbolic meanings by referencing various sources such as classical literature, religious texts, historical events, folkloric elements, and diverse cultural traditions. Such references enable the reader to interpret the text not in isolation, but within a broader intertextual and cultural context. The article presents the theoretical foundations of intertextuality, its evolution within literary studies and the humanities, as well as its major forms, including explicit, implicit, intentional, unintentional, and transformative types.

The following study discusses the semantic and stylistic challenges intertextuality poses for literary translation and the strategic approaches employed to address them. The core of the research focuses on the translation of intertextual elements in “Dubliners”, a renowned short story collection by one of the leading figures of 20th-century world literature, James Joyce. Specifically, the study analyzes and compares the Azerbaijani translations by Alisa Nijat and Ramiz Abbasli, investigating how intertextual references were preserved and which translation strategies were adopted.

Findings indicate that the translators primarily employed strategies based on equivalence, adaptation, and explicitation. However, in some instances, intertextual references were either completely omitted or presented only on a superficial, lexical level. Overall, the article emphasizes that intertextuality plays a crucial role in preserving the semantic depth, stylistic nuances, and aesthetic integrity of the source text in literary translation.

Analysis of the Relationship between Energy Resources Consumption and Economic Growth in Turkey

2025-10-07T20:47:39+03:00

Everything in the world is provided with an energy, and energy and its use are the most important resources for meeting the basic needs of humankind, which are indispensable for protecting, maintaining and raising the standard of living, since the first day of human existence on earth. In this context, a life without energy is unthinkable. The Turkish nation living on the Anatolian geography, which is in a very valuable and geostrategic place on the planet Earth, has very important and very valuable minerals and minerals. Strateko the 21st century (strategic and economic) role to play in the future of Turkey, which is a producer of boron minerals are indisputable size. The strategic, technological and economic importance of boron in the world is increasing day by day. The most important boron reserves having 72.3% of the world's boron reserves are in the western part of Turkey. Industrialization has a very important strategic role in the economic development and growth of countries. Countries are in great need of energy, mines and raw materials for industrialization. Nowadays, along with industrialization and technological developments, new types of production models as well as new types of products and advanced technological tools are used in the production process.

World energy consumption demand was realized as 13,760 million tons of oil equivalent (MTEP) as of the end of 2016. Approximately 19% of the energy consumption demand was consumed by North American countries, 14% by European countries, and 41% was consumed by Asia-Pacific countries. As of the end of 2016, 87% of the energy consumed in the world consists of fossil resources. In 2015, 42% of the world's total primary energy demand was used for electricity generation. Another precious metal of ours is "Thorium". Thorium was first discovered in 1828 by the Norwegian mineralogist Morten Thrane Esmark, but it was identified by the Swedish chemist Jons Jacob Berzelius and took its place in the periodic table. The element is named after Thor, who is accepted as the god of war in mythology. Thorium reserves are several hundred times higher than the world's uranium reserves. This shows the strategic importance of thorium in terms of energy production. There are sufficient thorium reserves in the world to meet the energy needs of humanity for thousands of years.

Energy sources can be divided into two according to their reusability. According to the said separation, resources are classified as renewable and non-renewable resources. Raw materials and natural resources are also included in the scope of (K) physical capital, which is included in the Cobb-Douglas production function. The (K) factor is important in the increase in production and acceleration of growth. Note that as (K) decreases, production decreases. When the relationship between the consumption of energy resources and economic growth is examined empirically, it is seen that empirical studies conducted in different countries, at different periods, using different methods have produced quite different results. Since there is no consensus in the results of empirical studies on the direction of the causality relationship between consumption of energy resources and economic growth, different perspective explanations are encountered in the literature. In order to explain these differences, four important theories have been developed which are explained below. These theories; "Growth", "protection", "neutrality" and "feedback" theories.

There is a Granger causality relationship between energy resource types and GNP. A one-way positive relationship has been determined from GNP to boron mine, electrical energy, oil, stone coal. It is possible to state the interpretation of the term slope and its effects as follows; * One unit increase in Boron Mine (with its logarithm) increases the GNP (with its logarithm) by 1.45 (when other variables are fixed). * One unit increase in Electrical Energy (whose logarithm is taken) increases the GNP (with its logarithm) by 2.63 (when the other variables are fixed). * One unit increase in the Hard Coal Mine (whose logarithm is taken) increases the GNP (with the logarithm) by 6,237 (when the other variables are fixed). * One unit increase in Lignite Coal Quantity (logarithm taken) raises GNP (logarithm taken) by 1.60 (other variables fixed). * One unit increase in Economic Growth Rate (logarithm taken) increases GNP (logarithm taken) by 6.99 (while other variables are constant). * One unit increase in the amount of oil (with its logarithm) increases the GNP (with its logarithm) by 1.54 (while the other variables are constant).

Transmission Mechanisms of Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Türkiye Banking Sector

2025-09-21T18:06:57+03:00

Monetary policy is one of the fundamental macroeconomic tools that has a direct impact on the banking sector and financial stability. The profitability of banks is determined by both bank-specific factors and macroeconomic conditions. While traditional monetary policy tools (such as interest rates and reserve requirements) have long been considered fundamental elements shaping banking performance, unconventional tools implemented by central banks after the 2008 global financial crisis (such as liquidity injections, asset purchases, and reverse repos) have begun to play an increasingly critical role in affecting banks' margins and profitability. An assessment was made for Türkiye using monthly data from the period 2011-2025. The analysis was conducted using ARDL long-run coefficients and the short-run ECM. Finally, the Toda-Yamamoto causality relationship and the relationships between variables were discussed. The study shows that the reserve option mechanism and liquidity operations (non-traditional instruments) negatively impact asset profitability, while reserve requirements and funding costs (traditional instruments) have a positive effect.

A Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on Corporate Social Responsibility Topic

2025-10-07T20:40:37+03:00

The concept of corporate social responsibility is a subject that is almost always on the agenda of academia and business world, although it is popular and demanded every time it is especially expected during the economic crisis, pandemics and disaster times. It is possible to say that corporate social responsibility is an interdisciplinary area which researchers study on intensively, such as there are more than 40.000 articles written and published about CSR; 16344 of them are from business, 13951 management, 6719 from environmental sciences, 5886 from business finance and 5184 from green sustainable science technology. In this research, the aim is analyzing the literature in depth and revealing the quantitative statistics and underlining the gaps in the literature for the benefit of other researchers who are interested in this field. The publications on CSR between 1990 and 2025 years have been analyzed quantitatively by using Vosviewer software and a general framework is pointed out in this article. Web of Science is chosen as the database for the analysis and the results have shown that the interest on corporate social responsibility is has increased year by year since 1990 and in 2022 it has peaked with 3720 publications in Web of Science database. Analysis showed that the first contributor to this field is USA with 6906 articles followed by China with 6209 articles. As a result, CSR is in focus of researchers from different parts of the world, and the importance of this issue seems to continue.

History of Pasta Production and Consumption from the Ottoman Empire to the Present

2025-10-07T21:34:03+03:00

Throughout history, grain farming has held a significant place in social and economic life as a fundamental building block of human nutrition. Among these grains, wheat has always stood out for its nutritional value and widespread use. Over time, with the formation of civilizations, technological advancements, industrialization, and changing consumption habits, it has been utilized in different forms. A rich source of carbohydrates, wheat, once ground into flour, has been used not only in traditional products like bread but also, through practical applications, in alternative and functional food products such as pasta, bulgur, and biscuits. In this context, pasta, in particular, has become one of the most preferred food products globally today due to its delicious flavor, ease of preparation, long-term preservation, compatibility with a wide variety of sauces, the availability of hundreds of preparation techniques, and its popularity among people of all ages. Pasta stands out not only as a food but also as a cultural asset, an economic product, and an essential part of everyday life. This study examines the historical journey of pasta, which holds significant potential in both production and consumption in our country. By examining the developmental stages of pasta in Turkey from the Ottoman period to the Republic and the present day, we aim to emphasize both its place in Turkish culinary culture and its strategic importance in the national economy. Turkey's rich wheat resources and deep-rooted culinary heritage enable pasta to become more visible and valuable at the national level. In this context, the prominence of pasta, with its domestic production power and cultural identity, plays a critical role in both food security and sustainable development.

The Language of the Story “Tenezzüh” Written in Ottoman Turkish

2025-10-08T13:13:46+03:00

Ömer Seyfettin’s short story “Tenezzüh,” published in the newspaper Sabah in 1902, is among the author’s earliest known works and represents the initial phase in his literary trajectory from Ottoman Turkish to a simplified Turkish. This text strongly reflects the characteristic elements of the late Ottoman linguistic atmosphere: the predominance of Arabic- and Persian-origin vocabulary, syntactic patterns based on compounds and constructions, rhetorical features of the literary style, and the distance between written and spoken language. In the late Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turkish, the dominant language in official and cultural spheres, was a multi-layered written language built upon a Turkish core, integrated with Arabic-Persian vocabulary and grammatical patterns. While this language set the norms of high literature and the press, it also became the focal point of debates on simplification and the quest for a national language in the course of modernization. The vocabulary and syntax of “Tenezzüh,” written in Ottoman Turkish during the transitional period, will be described through the distribution of Arabic and Persian elements in the text; the relationship between this distribution and stylistic as well as narrative functions will be revealed. The analysis will first produce a lexical inventory based on an etymological classification within the text; it will distinguish Arabic (e.g., tahattur, muâşaka, sekerât), Persian (e.g., pîş-i hayâl, hâl, formulaic elements such as maşaallâh), and Turkish items and determine their proportions. Then, syntactic features such as the prevalence of izafet, chains of compounds, compound modifiers, and long sentence structures will be examined; their role in the narrative’s temporal flow, the rhythm of descriptive passages, and the production of affect will be evaluated. Thus, “Tenezzüh” will be positioned as an intermediary example that both makes visible the practices of the literary written language in the final phase of linguistic history and helps to make sense of Ömer Seyfettin’s subsequent tendencies toward simplification. The findings aim to discuss the composite nature of the late Ottoman written language and the axes of continuity and rupture in the transition to modern Turkish through the short story “Tenezzüh.”

Constructing Self and History: An Autobiographical Reading of Arna Bontemps’s Black Thunder

2025-10-12T22:37:40+03:00

This study examines Arna Bontemps's novel Black Thunder, which has an important place in the history of African American literature, in terms of autobiographical elements related to the author's life story. In his works, Bontemps writes about historical events based on her own experiences, to reconstruct both personal and social memory. The study reveals how Bontemps's life, shaped by economic, cultural, and political factors, is reflected in the novel's characters and events. Therefore, slavery, the search for identity, and the struggle for freedom are examined through the author's own experiences. The study argues that Black Thunder is not only a historical narrative but also a reflection of the individual self's process of self-construction within history. Consequently, the novel touches upon autobiographical elements shaped by the intersection of personal experiences and contemporary history.

Beliefs and Practices Related to Breast Milk in Turkish Folk Culture

2025-10-12T20:08:50+03:00

Breast milk is the first food substance a baby encounters upon entering the world. This life-giving fluid, which the newborn receives directly from its mother's body, is the first bond established with life. For this reason, it is regarded as a powerful and miraculous fluid in many cultures. Breast milk is more than just a biological fluid; it is a loaded cultural symbol. This study aims to analyse the use of breast milk in rites of passage and healing practices in Turkish cultural geography; in anonymous oral narratives such as folk tales and epics; in idiomatic expressions embedded in everyday language; and the value it carries in everyday life practices. To this end, the study begins by providing examples of the symbolic content of breast milk in world mythology, followed by an examination of how it is used in Turkish mythology as a vehicle for the transmission of identity, lineage, and cultural values. The study, secondly, examines the forms of use and value of breast milk, an output of the female body, in the cultural sphere, and endeavours to reveal the value system centred on the female experience, productivity and sanctity embedded within these practices.

Carpet-Kilim Art in the Turks and the Meaning of Motifs in the Context of Islamic Culture

2025-10-23T21:10:17+03:00

This study examines Turkish carpet and kilim art through its historical development, cultural context, and the spiritual and symbolic meanings conveyed by motifs within the context of Islamic culture. Developed by the Turks as a consequence of their nomadic lifestyle, starting in Central Asia, the art of weaving reflects a history spanning thousands of years, with early examples like the Pazyryk Carpet. Reaching its peak during the Great Seljuk and Ottoman periods, this art, with its aesthetic and functional value, has permeated a wide range of areas, from mosques and palaces to everyday life and international trade.

Carpets and kilims are not merely decorative objects; they are also carriers of social memory, belief, and identity. The textiles known as "Ölümlük" (death garments) used in funeral rituals are among the most striking examples of this cultural depth. With the adoption of Islam, the aesthetic approach to abstraction in art manifested itself in carpet and kilim motifs, with geometric patterns and stylized plant and animal figures becoming widespread.

One of the focal points of this study is the connection of these motifs with Islamic Sufism. The principle of monotheism is symbolically expressed in compositions based on central and infinite repetition; the idea of Unity of Being is expressed in holistic patterns where all motifs are interconnected; and the concept of Fena Fillah is symbolically expressed in motifs that simplify and intensify toward the center. Traditional motifs such as the hands-on waist, ram's horn, tree of life, mihrab, tulip, amulet, and waterway each carry profound meanings, symbolizing abundance, power, protection, qibla orientation, and divine unity.

In conclusion, Turkish carpet and kilim art, beyond mere technical perfection, is a cultural code and a means of spiritual expression passed down from generation to generation. Preserving this art form and its symbolic language is one of the most valuable cultural legacies to be passed down to future generations.