In the Netherlands, Turkish-Dutch children constitute a substantial group of children who learn to speak Dutch at the age of four after they learned to speak Turkish. These children are generally academically less successful. Academic success appears to be affected by both language proficiency and working memory skill. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between language ...

BACKGROUND Monitoring overweight in risk groups is necessary. Our aim is to assess the trend in overweight and obesity in Turkish and Moroccan children in the Netherlands since 1997 and to monitor the levels of lifestyle-related behaviours in 2009. METHODS We selected cross-sectional data of Turkish and Moroccan children aged 2-18 years from two national Growth Studies performed in 1997 and 2...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to develop, and assess the validity and reliability of the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BAQ)-Turkish Version. METHODS The BAQ was translated from English to Turkish by a bilingual individual, and then independently translated back to English by another bilingual individual. The study included 220 students from 2 universities. In order to dete...

Aim: To compare the adherence to clinical guidelines by GPs as registered and glycaemic control in Turkish and Dutch type 2 diabetes patients. Design: A retrospective cohort study. Search of general practice medical records for diabetesrelated variables of Turkish and Dutch diabetes patients, stratified for age and gender. Setting: Seventeen general practices (37 GPs) in the inner city of Rotte...

The objective of this study was to test whether quantity and/or quality distinctions are problematic for Turkish learners acquiring L2 German. The perception and production of the German long/short vowel pairs /i:/-//, /a:/-/a/, and /u:/-// by a group of Turkish high school learners of L2 German were compared to an age-matched control group of German native speakers. The results of both the p...

BACKGROUND Compared to the majority population of a host country, migrants tend to have different health risks and health behaviour. We have hypothesised that these differences diminish with time passed since migration. We tested this hypothesis by examining smoking behaviour among Turkish migrants and their children born in Germany (second-generation migrants), stratified by educational level ...

BACKGROUND The Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ) is originally a Dutch 50 item questionnaire developed in primary care to assess distress, depression, anxiety and somatization. We aimed to develop and validate a Turkish translation of the 4DSQ. METHODS The questionnaire was translated using forward and backward translation, and pilot testing. Turkish 4DSQ-data were collected in 35...

BACKGROUND This study examined ethnic differences in ageing perceptions of migrant Turkish and native Dutch elders residing in Rotterdam, and explored whether such differences could be attributed to culture or resources (personal, physical, economic and/or social). METHODS This study was based on combined data from two research projects focusing on the health and well-being of community-dwell...

There is a growing recognition of the need to examine religiousness and conduct research on its influence on acculturation and adjustment among ethnic minorities (Güngör et al. in Int J Behav Dev 36:367-373, 2012. doi:10.1177/0165025412448357). The present study compares Turkish minority youth in Bulgaria and Germany by examining relationships among religious identity, acculturation orientation...

We describe the Marmara Turkish Coreference Corpus, which is an annotation of the whole METU-Sabanci Turkish Treebank with mentions and coreference chains. Collecting nine or more independent annotations for each document allowed for fully automatic adjudication. We provide a baseline system for Turkish mention detection and coreference resolution and evaluate it on the corpus.