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ISSN: 1303-0094 e-ISSN: 2149-5459
Publisher: Gaziantep University

Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences

Publication Model: Periodical Publication (January - April - July - October)

Journal Boards

Editor-in-Chief

SI
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sever Işık
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
Philosophy, Political Theory and Political Philosophy

Assistant Editors

Muhammed Ali Akay
Res. Assist. Muhammed Ali Akay
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ, HUKUK FAKÜLTESİ
Legal History, Islamic Law, Public Law (Other)

Graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 2018. Completed his master's degree with a thesis in the Department of Public Law at Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences in 2022, having started in 2018. Since 2023, he has been continuing his doctoral studies in Public Law at Gaziantep University Institute of Social Sciences. Since 2020, he has been working as a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Law, Gaziantep University.

İbrahim Özhazar
Res. Assist. Dr. İbrahim Özhazar
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, TARİH BÖLÜMÜ, YAKINÇAĞ TARİHİ ANABİLİM DALI
Late Modern Ottoman History, Migration History, Ottoman history

Language Editor

MK
Res. Assist. Murat Kaya
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ, SOSYOLOJİ PR.
Sociology of Culture, Migration Sociology, International Migration, Urban Sociology and Community Studies
Ruhan Güçlü
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ruhan Güçlü
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Historical, Comparative and Typological Linguistics, Linguistic Contrastif, Discourse and Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistic Performance Science, Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics, Textlinguistics, Translation Studies

Ruhan GÜÇLÜ graduated from the Department of English Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, in 2011. She received her MA in English Linguistics from the same university in 2015 with a thesis on children’s word associations and completed her PhD in 2022 with a diachronic and gender-based study of metadiscourse in Turkish MA theses. GÜÇLÜ worked as a research assistant in the Department of English Linguistics at Hacettepe University from 2013 to 2022. In 2023, she joined the Department of English Language and Literature at Gaziantep University as an Assistant Professor. In 2026, she was awarded the title of Associate Professor in Linguistics and continues to serve in the same department. Her main research interests include discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, stylistics, ecolinguistics, language education, translation, and the relationship between artificial intelligence and language. Her research focuses particularly on metadiscourse, Appraisal Theory, language and identity, values, academic writing, authorship and academic discourse in the age of generative AI, and corpus-based linguistic analysis. Drawing on a range of linguistic approaches, she examines academic, educational, and literary texts.

Section Editors

Mehmet Erol
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Erol
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Alawism Bektashism Studies, Turkish Folklore Outside Türkiye, Turkish Folklore in the Türkiye Field, Turkish Folk Literature, Turkish Folklore
Senem Kurtar
Prof. Dr. Senem Kurtar
Gaziantep University
17th Century Philosophy, 18th Century Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy , Enlightenment , 21st Century Philosophy , 20th Century Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Art, Ontology, Philosophy of Culture , Aesthetics, Philosophy of Environment, Philosophy for Children, History of Philosophy (Other), Modern Philosophy, Continental Philosophy
İbrahim Halil Ekşi
Prof. Dr. İbrahim Halil Ekşi
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Financial Risk Management, Financial Markets and Institutions, Finance

Ekşi completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Business Administration at Uludağ University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1998. He began his academic career as a lecturer at Gaziantep University that same year. He received the title and authority of associate professor in finance in 2014. Appointed to a full professorship in 2020, Ekşi currently serves as the Head of the Accounting and Finance Department of the Department of Business Administration at Gaziantep University. He has published scientific articles in high-impact journals and published books, conferences, and editorials, primarily on banking, the financial system, and sustainability.

İB
Prof. Dr. İsmail Baykara
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
Palaeolithic Age Archeology, Archaeological Science
Gülşah Gaye Fidan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülşah Gaye Fidan
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
Classical Turkish Literature, Turkish Language and Literature
Ferihan Ayaz
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ferihan Ayaz
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ
Media Studies, Journalism
Ela İpek Gündüz
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ela İpek Gündüz
GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
North American Language, Literature and Culture, British and Irish Language, Literature and Culture, Literary Theory
Ayhan Özer
Prof. Dr. Ayhan Özer
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Plastic Arts, Sculpture, Painting
Meltem Muşlu
Asst. Prof. Dr. Meltem Muşlu
Gaziantep Üniveristesi
Corpus Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics, Discourse and Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Performance Science
Mehmet Ragıp Kalelioğlu
Economic Geography, Turkish Economic Geography

I have a master's and doctorate degree from Ankara University. I am currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Gaziantep University. I also focus on sub-branches of economic geography such as clusters, industrial zones, innovation and urban economics.

Onur Türkölmez
Asst. Prof. Dr. Onur Türkölmez
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Sociology, Constitutional and Political Theories, Comparative Political Movement, Turkish Political Life, Intellectual History of Politics, Political Movement
Banu Koç
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Banu Koç
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Food Engineering, Drying Technologies, Food Technology, Food Packaging, Preservation and Processing, Molecular Gastronomy, Functional Foods, Gastronomy
Ahmet Özdemir
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Özdemir
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ, HUKUK FAKÜLTESİ
Criminal Law
Atik Aslan
Asst. Prof. Dr. Atik Aslan
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ
Change, Underdevelopment and Modernisation Sociology, Migration Sociology, Regional Development and Globalisation in Sociology, Sociology, Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment

He completed her undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral studies in the Department of Sociology at Ankara University's Faculty of Language, History, and Geography. Since 2019, she has been working as a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Gaziantep University's Faculty of Science and Letters. His research focuses on “globalization, migration, development, poverty, and inequality.”

Seyit Yıldırım
Asst. Prof. Dr. Seyit Yıldırım
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Recitation of the Qur'an and Qiraat, Tafsir
Mustafa Saribiyik
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Saribiyik
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Islamic Studies (Other)
FÖ
Foreign Trade, International Economics

Editorial Board

MS
Modern Turkish Literature in Turkiye Field
İsmail Yılmaz
Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsmail Yılmaz
Gaziantep Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi
Law and Economy, Law and Legal Studies, Islamic Law

Arapça, İngilizce

Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu
Prof. Dr. Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu
ISTANBUL KULTUR UNIVERSITY
British and Irish Language, Literature and Culture
NY
Prof. Dr. Nuri Yavan
ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Regional Development and Globalisation in International Economics, Turkish Economic Geography, Development Geography, Economic Geography, Urban Economics, Regional Economy
UU
Prof. Dr. Uğur Uzunkaya
Erzurum Teknik Üniversitesi
Old Turkic Language (Orhon, Uyghur, Karahan), Historical North East Turkish Language (Khwarezm, Kipchak, Chagatai), New Turkish Language (Turkish of Old Anatolia, Ottoman, Turkiye)
Erol Erkan
Prof. Dr. Erol Erkan
GAZİANTEP ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Sociology of Religion
BK
Prof. Dr. Burhan Kılıç
MUĞLA SITKI KOÇMAN ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Hospitality Management, Tourism Marketing, Tourism, Consumer Behaviour, Food and Beverage, Gastronomy

Kadro Bilgileri
Görev Birimi
Turizm Fakültesi / Yiyecek Ve İçecek İşletmeciliği Bölümü / Yiyecek Ve İçecek İşletmeciliği Abd
Kadro Birimi
Turizm Fakültesi / Yiyecek Ve İçecek İşletmeciliği Bölümü / Yiyecek Ve İçecek İşletmeciliği Abd
Öğrenim Bilgileri
Lisans
Gazi Üniversitesi Ticaret ve Turizm Eğitim Fakültesi Turizm İşletmeciliği Eğitimi 1996
Yüksek Lisans
Gazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Turizm İşletmeciliği Anabilim Dalı 1998
Doktora
Gazi Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü Turizm İşletmeciliği Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı 2004

Naile Asker
Turkish Folklore Outside Türkiye, Turkish Cultural History, Turkish Folk Literature, Turkish Folklore (Other), South-West (Oghuz) Turkic Dialects and Literatures, Comparative Language Studies, Turkish Folklore in the Türkiye Field
Mehmet Ali Çelikel
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Çelikel
Marmara Üniversitesi
British and Irish Language, Literature and Culture

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Çelikel graduated from Hacettepe University, Department of English Linguistics in 1993. He completed his MA in English Language and Literature at the University of Hertfordshire in England in 1997. He got his PhD with a thesis entitled “The Post-Colonial Condition: The Fiction of Rushdie, Kureishi and Roy” at Liverpool University in England in 2001. He has published two academic books in Turkish on post-colonial novel, entitled as Sömürgecilik Sonrası İngiliz Romanında Kültür ve Kimlik [Culture and Identity in Postcolonial English Novel] in 2011 and Çağdaş İngiliz Romanında Küreselleşme, Göç ve Kültür [Globalisation, Migration and Culture in Contemporary British Novel]. He currently works as a Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Marmara University, Turkey. mehmet.celikel@marmara.edu.tr 
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0402-9858
 

Secretaries

TK
Criminal Law, Islamic Law, Public Law (Other)
Last Update Time: July 27, 2026