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This paper aims to bring the studies on the validity and reliability of oral history together and to discuss the precautions that should be taken in the context of the relevant criticism. Within this extent, the relationships between oral history and memory studies, some problems and current debates on oral history, and the precautions to be taken to provide the validity and reliability of the oral history data before, during and after the oral history interviews are examined. The precautions emphasized include doing sufficient literature review, selecting the appropriate informants, the interviewer taking an interrogative role during the course of the interview and the importance of comparing and contrasting oral history data with written sources. Lastly, the paper presents some suggestions on conducting valid and reliable oral history studies in consideration with the relevant literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Ansiklopedisi (Turkish Religious Foundation Encyclopedia Of Islam) started to be published in 1988 and finished in 2014 with 44 volumes. This ambitious and wide-ranging project, fills a gap in Islamic Studies, Turkish-Islamic History, art, literature, culture and civilization. Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Ansiklopedisi has been written by more than 2000 scholars, using more than 500 sources and it includes more than 16.000 articles covering a very wide range of topics. It can be considered as a product of Muslims who need a sophisticated encyclopedia about Islamic Studies, Islamic History, Art, Literature, culture and civilization. Even this encyclopedia can be a ccepted one of the best projects of the Muslims, articles about hadith may have contain some deficiencies. This paper will provide an over view of nearly 1540 articles of Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Ansiklopedisi about hadith. Remembering that criticism is the peculiar mark of high civilization, we hope to make a contribution to this project by this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the use of right to reply and rectification in the period of Democrat Party. The paper, considering the press law amendment in the 1956 as the starting point, evaluates the period until 1960 in the case of Ulus, Republican People's Party's non-official daily. By using historical document analysis, the first pages of all copies of the daily in this period are examined. The paper reveals that due to the failures in the economic policies and political affairs, the DP increased the pressure on the press and transformed the right to reply and rectification as an oppression and control mechanism in order to avoid criticism of the government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]