This study examines the responses of consumers to protect them from deceptive or harmful activities of companies in market process. Also, the background of consumers’ demanding behaviors were investigated. In this context, the objective of the study is to determine the relationship among consumers’ knowledge towards their rights created by law, the consciousness level, the attitude towards demanding the rights, and actual behaviors for protecting their rights. A survey has been conducted with 268 women teachers through a structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed through factor and regression methods. The findings of the study reveal a clear relationship among the level of consumer knowledge and consciousness with attitude towards actual behaviors for demanding the rights. A strong relationship was also found between attitude and actual behaviors for consumer rights.

There has been a great attention of both public and private sector on the evaluation of performance workers that is one of the important roles of human resource management. This issue has become more important particularly after the enforcement date of Labor Law number 4857. This law enforced the employers to proof concrete argument(s) showing lower performance of the worker with which his/her job terminated. In other words the companies or firms should provide the documents which confirm the lower performance of the employee(s). These developments have directed attention of the firms towards more careful in the performance evaluation. In this study, we, initially, examine the theoretical approaches on the techniques of measurement of effectiveness of performance evaluation. We, further, provide and discuss the results of an application of the performance evaluation techniques to the two companies in services sector in Turkey. In analyzing the data on these two companies, we used the techniques of t-test and ordinary least square regression. The findings indicate the followings: The first, participation and justice are very important factors for employees in increasing their satisfaction from the system of performance evaluation and job. The second observation is that proper usage of factors of feedback and human resource scorecard increase the effectiveness of performance evaluation. The final finding is that inclusion of all workers in all the steps of the performance evaluation system makes the system to produce more efficient and correct results.

This paper explores a series of unit root, cointegration and causality test to identify the impact of different educational levels on economic growth in Turkey for the period 1955 to 2002. Further, the educational variables are broken down by gender to see separately the effect of female and male educations at each category on economic growth. Results reveal that education has a significant and negative effect on Turkish’s economic growth in primary and university education level and positive effect on high school education both for women and men. In addition it is found that the effect of women’s educational attainment at all levels has a higher impact on economic growth than men’s educational attainment at same levels.

Globalization movement has been creating more and more similar societies resulting one huge market for companies. It means new market opportunities as well as new threats stemming from competition. By examining the potential role of strategic alliances as a cooperative strategy in highly competitive environments, this paper attempted to examine the viewpoints of Turkish companies and their strategic partners from other countries. The main motivations of companies for this type of strategy and their specific results were analized in comparative approach. Frequency analyses and test methods were used for data collected from 76 companies.

International system can be defined as a complex system of systems that is comprised of economic, political, scientific, technological and military systems. It is hard to analyze this complex system. It is even harder to forecast its future. Nonetheless, there are factors such as the defense industry and military power that affect the dynamics of the international system much more than other factors. After the Revolution in Military Affairs, which transformed the military paradigm, significance of these factors for international relations increased. In this study, interdependence of international relations, military technology, military power and defense industry was investigated. It was found that the global defense industrial order is a good indicator of balance of power in the international system. Scenarios about the future of the international system were built by the help of scenarios about the future of the global defense industrial order.

In this research, a survey has been made to position the variables that affect the young GSM consumers’ operator choice. The questionnaire, given to the young GSM consumers aims at collecting data of GSM product and demographic, socio-economic consuming varieties. While the results were being tested by parametric and nonparametric statistical methods, the variables which were thought to have an effect on choosing an operator were made located on operators by discriminant analysis. By two discriminant functions, it is found that Turkcell is significantly dominant on three variables, and Avea is dominant on other two variables.

ionally are realized through financial reporting standards. The increase in the number of countries that issue regulations for the application of the standards increases the compatibility of the accounting standards on a global basis and at the same time it creates a need for new regulations in various issues. The International Financial Reporting Standards for share-based payment transactions which is one of the issues that requires regulations for financial reporting was issued in 2004 to go into effect on 01 January 2005. In Turkey, the “TFRS-2 Share-Based Payment Standards” which was issued in 2006 and which went into effect in the same year defines measurement principles mainly for three types of share-based payment transactions: “equity-settled share-based payment transactions, in which the entity receives goods or services as consideration for equity instruments of the entity (including shares or share options)”, “cash-settled share-based payment transactions, in which the entity acquires goods or services by incurring liabilities to the supplier of those goods or services for amounts that are based on the price (or value) of the entity’s shares or other equity instruments of the entity,” and “transactions in which the entity receives or acquires goods or services and the terms of the arrangement provide either the entity or the supplier of those goods or services with a choice of whether the entity settles the transaction in cash or by issuing equity instruments.” The study explains the measurement of the effect of each share-based transaction in the standard on the financial position of an entity and presents some applications in the accounting.

The policies of selective credit have a more opportunities for the scales of financial use and have a positive effect on the financial resources allocation. So, the techniques of selective credit control in use may be considered as a active use of credit policy which has effect on the general level of effective demand. Both short-term and long-term the selective credit policies have different effect on increasing product and sometime can be considered as a very expensive financial resources which are directly effected by higher and higher rates of interest. In the same process, certainly the selective policies which have a important effect on the policy of banks and the financial techniques of another financial institutions for regulating the general financial rules and support to manufacturing sector that it’s main object that is growth to the future are very important.

The purpose of this article is to summarize and discuss Turkey-Israel relations in the post-Cold War era. The study starts with a brief summary of the two countries’ Cold War relations, followed by a detailed summary and analysis of the post-Cold War ones. In this respect, the dynamics and development process of the relations, as well as strengths and problematic areas in them, are addressed in detail. In the end, the direction and future of the relations are stressed to depend on the countries’ ability to cope with current problems and enhance cooperation between themselves.