How to Write Your Thesis? | Graduate School of Social Science

What to Do When You Reach the Thesis Defense Stage

You must send the final version of the thesis to your thesis advisor as PDF or Word.
Your thesis advisor should send a plagiarism (turnitin) investigation to the e-mail address of our institute secretary Gül Hanım approximately one month before the date you plan to defend your thesis.
After the plagiarism is revealed, Ms. Gül will inform your thesis advisor about the result. After this stage, you can form your defense jury by meeting with your thesis advisor and department.
You must inform your department by determining the date and time of your defense with your professors in the jury, and your department must inform our institute with a cover letter.
On the day of your thesis defense, the thesis defense
You must receive your report from the institute before the presentation. After the presentation, the jury members must sign the report and your department must send it to the Institute with a cover letter within three business days.
You can access the thesis approval page formats you need to prepare when coming to the thesis defense from the links below.

The thesis approval page is only a draft, and you must fill it out on the computer using your own information and thesis language, and after the defense, the signature must be obtained from the relevant faculty members other than the institute director. After the thesis is delivered to the institute, the signature of the institute director will be obtained by the student affairs department. The thesis approval page must be submitted to the institute together with the thesis after the defense; The thesis approval page should not be included in the thesis.

Yüksek lisans Tez Onay Sayfası (Türkçe)

Yüksek lisans Tez Onay Sayfası (İngilizce)

Doktora Tez Onay Sayfası (Türkçe)

Doktora Tez Onay Sayfası (İngilizce)

The student whose thesis defense is successful moves on to the thesis submission stage. You must submit your thesis, which you will prepare according to the thesis writing guide, to our institute within one month from your defense date.

Türkçe Tez Yazım Kılavuzu

İngilizce Tez Yazım Kılavuzu

In order to submit your thesis to the Institute, you are required to provide the following materials:

Three (3) copies of the thesis on CD in PDF format
One (1) hardbound copy of the thesis
The Thesis Data Entry Form
The Thesis Approval Page

You must log in to the National Thesis Center at https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/ using your Turkish ID number and e-Government (e-Devlet) password, and complete the Thesis Data Entry Form. Upon completion, the system will automatically assign a reference number.

For international students:

You can obtain an e-Government (e-Devlet) password by visiting any PTT (Post Office) branch with your foreign identification number. Once you receive your password, you will be able to log in to the system and access the National Thesis Center.

While filling out the Thesis Data Entry Form, you must obtain an ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) by clicking the “Obtain ORCID number” link provided in the form.

You are required to upload two abstracts, each not exceeding 250 words:

One in Turkish
One in the foreign language recognized by your academic department

The reference number generated by the system must be used as the file name of the thesis in PDF format when uploading it to the CDs (e.g., “123456.pdf”).

The thesis document must not contain any personal information such as CVs, email addresses, phone numbers, signatures, etc.

To prepare the CD sleeve label, you may click the following link for the cover label template: Click for a sample cover label for a CD envelope.

After customizing the label with your information, print it out and place it inside the paper envelopes that will hold the CDs.

Binding Requirements:

Master’s theses must be bound with a navy blue cover
Doctoral dissertations must be bound with a black cover.
The spine of the thesis must include the candidate's full name, degree type, and year of submission, in that order. The text on the spine must be oriented from left to right.