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Culture of Insecurity and Production of Foreign Policy Crises: Turkey's Sevres Syndrome and Syrian Support for the PKK during the 1998 October Crisis

Sarı, Buğra

Events in international politics are produced as crises when they pose threat to particular state identities. Having such understanding, this study complements the standard accounts that stress strategic factors as the catalyst behind Turkey’s decision to initiate the 1998 October Crisis. There is no denying that standard accounts have significant merit in revealing the material dimension of the crisis. However, the crisis does also contain a cultural dimension that reveals the conditions of possibility for Turkey’s decision, missing in the standard accounts. Hence, the study looks into developments in 1998 which allowed for representations that linked the Syrian support for the PKK with Turkey’s Sèvres Syndrome, a discursive power practice within Turkey’s unique culture of insecurity that...

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The role of ATP-sensitive potassium channels in the vasodilatory effect of N-acetylcysteine

Söğüt, Fatma | Çömelekoğlu, Ülkü | Vezir, Özden | Sucu, Nehir | Yalın, Ali Erdinç | Yalın, Serap | Yılmaz, Şakir Necat | Akkapulu, Merih | Kibar, Deniz

N-acetyl cysteine’s (NAC) anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and vasodilator effects are well known. However, explaining the mechanism of the effects are not sufficient. In this study, on the vasodilatory effect of NAC, role of ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channel was investigated by using electrophysiological and molecular genetics methodologies. In this study, aorta smooth muscle cell lines were used. One con trol and three dose groups were studied. The control group were not exposed any treatment. The dose groups were treated with 2, 5 and 10 mMNACrespectively, using the cellattached patch clamp KATP channel currents were measured for 10 min. Intracellular calcium levels in the same groups has been monitored using confocal laser scanning microscope by taking images at 488 nm wavelength w...

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