SUMMARYEffective methods to increase awareness of preventable infectious diseases are key components of successful control programmes. Rabies is an example of a disease with significant impact, where public awareness is variable. A recent awareness campaign in a rabies endemic region of Azerbaijan provided a unique opportunity to assess the efficacy of such campaigns. A cluster cross-sectional survey concerning rabies was undertaken following the awareness campaign in 600 households in 38 randomly selected towns, in districts covered by the campaign and matched control regions. This survey demonstrated that the relatively simple awareness campaign was effective at improving knowledge of rabies symptoms and vaccination schedules. Crucially, those in the awareness campaign group were also 1·4 times more likely to report that they had vaccinated their pets, an essential component of human rabies prevention. In addition, low knowledge of appropriate post-exposure treatment and animal sources of rabies provide information useful for future public awareness campaigns in the region and other similar areas.

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Peygamberlik müessesesi Tanrıyla insanlar arasındaki irtibatı gerçekleştirme fonksiyonu taşımaktadır. Yahudi geleneğinde de nübüvvet temel müesseselerdendir. Yahudiliğe göre peygamber olmak için ilahi katmanlarla irtibatta olmak yeterli olmayıp Tanrı tarafından tebliğ vazifesiyle görevlendirilmiş olması gerekmektedir. Yahudi peygamberlik müessesesinde Hz. Musa'nın müstesna yeri olmakla birlikte önce ve sonra da peygamberlerin olduğu kabul edilir. Tevrat, Hz. Musa'dan önceki peygamberlerden sadece Hz. İbrahim hakkında nebi ifadesini kullanmıştır. Bu döneme ait diğer peygamberlerin nübüvvetleri ise rabbinik kaynaklarla sabittir. Ayrıca, Hz. Musa'dan önce diğer uluslardan da peygamber geldiği Yahudi kaynaklarında geçmektedir. Tanah'ın Neviim ve Ketuvim bölümleri peygamberlerin yazılarını ihtiva etmektedir. Burada bahsedilenlerin tamamı Hz. Musa'dan sonra yaşamış ve onun getirdiği şeriatın tebliğcisi olmuşlardır. Yahudilikte kadınların da peygamber olabileceği kabul edilir; yedi kadın peygamber vardır. En son peygamber Malaki'dir.

What are the underlying causes of the spectacular rise of political Islam in Turkey? The factors behind the rise of Islamism in Turkey remain the subject of intense scholarly debate. There are interesting relationships between the rise of Islamism and preceding changes in population dynamics in Turkey. Rapid urbanization and large-scale migration of Kurds and other ethnic minorities from the east of the county to major cities in the west created a situation when Kemalist ideology, that was based on Turkish nationalism and secularism, could not continue to play its nation-building role anymore. The changes in demographics created a need for a social transformation that can bring people with different ethnic identities together based on a shared aspect of their identity. There was a need for a bond that can link members of different ethnic groups to one another and to the country as a whole. This need found its realization in Islamism because the main shared aspect of the identity of the majority of ethnic Turks and Kurds is their religion-Sunni Islam. Islamism offered a sense of a new superseding identity that helped to restrain existing Turkish, Kurdish and other ethnic identities and helped to reconcile and stabilize social relationships by reducing ethnic antagonism, tension and potential conflict. This new consolidating mechanism helped to create a state of a strong and substantial common ground between different ethnic groups concentrated in major metropolitan areas of Turkey. The rise of political Islam in Turkey was the political consequence of changing social preferences and motivation that resulted in inventing the reason for the social and political change, without recognizing and acknowledging the real underlying motives behind it.