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Program of Political Science and International Relations (English)

POLI305

TURKISH POLITICAL HISTORY I

Course Code
POLI305
Semester
Fifth Term (Fall)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
5
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study3
SemesterFifth Term (Fall)
ECTS5
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. develop skills to understand and analyze Turkish political history from a "political science" perspective
  2. gain a conceptual framework to approach Turkish political history from the perspectives of modernization, political development and democratization.
  3. relate the modernizing policies and their successes and failures with power relations.
  4. gain skills to evaluate the changing meaning of politics in the course of modernization, parties to democracy debate and its main axes and deficits by using the political science concepts.
  5. gain knowledge about the concept of political instability and its causes.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsNo recommended optional programme components.
Course DescriptionThis course introduces students to the Turkish political structure, dynamics, and mainstream ideas from the Ottoman period to the first years of the Republic. In this way, it allows students to analyze today's Turkey better.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Introducing the Course Syllabus and Contents
2nd Week The Ottoman Polity in the Classical Age
3rd Week The Phases of the Ottoman Modernizing Reforms in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Emergence of the Tanzimat Era and Its Aftermath
4th Week The First Constitutional Era, the Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, and the Impact of the Young Ottoman Thought (1878-19088
5th Week The Second Constitutional Era and its Aftermath
6th Week The Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Beginning of the National Independence Movement (1919-1922, 1923-1925)
7th Week Midterm Exam
8th Week The Making of Modern Turkey and Modern Turkish National Identity: The Kemalist Reform Era (1925-1945) + Submission of Response Paper 1
9th Week Kemalism as the Hegemonic Discourse and Official Ideology of the Turkish State
10th Week Kemalist Modernization and the Impact of the Ottoman Past
11th Week Trials of and Transition to Multi-Party Politics: From Progressive Republican Party to Democrat Party (1924-1950)
12th Week The Democrat Party Administration and the Establishment of "Centre-Right" Tradition in Turkish Politics
13th Week The Causes and Consequences of the 1960 Coup: Towards the Making of the "Second Republic"+ Submission of Response Paper 2
14th Week Aspects of Military Politics
Recommended or Required ReadingAhmad, F. (1993) The Making of Modern Turkey (London and New York: Routledge).
Berkes, N. (1964) The Development of Secularism in Turkey (Montreal: McGill University Press).
Heper, M. (1985) The State Tradition in Turkey (London: Eothen Press).
Kazancıgil, A., and E. Özbudun (eds.) (1981) Atatürk: Founder of a Modern State (London: C. Hurst & Company).
Kemal Karpat, (ed.) (1959) Turkey's Politics: The Transition to Multiparty System (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press).
Lewis, B. (1961) The Emergence of Modern Turkey (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Mardin, Ş. (1962) The Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press).
Mardin, Ş. (2004) Türkiye?de Toplum ve Siyaset 12th Edition (M. Türköne, and T. Önder eds.) (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları).
Mardin, Ş. (2007) Türkiye?de Din ve Siyaset 13th Edition (M. Türköne, and T. Önder eds.) (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları).
Zürcher, E. J. (2005) Turkey: a Modern History 3rd Edition (London and New York: I. B. Tauris).
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 30
Assignment 2 20
Attendance 1 10
Total(%) 60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 1 1.5 1.5
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work 14 2 28
Preparation for Final exam 1 30 30
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 20 20
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 1.5 1.5
Homework 2 15 30
Total Work Load153
Total Work Load / 30 (h)5.1
ECTS Credit of the Course5
Language of InstructionEnglish
Work Placement(s)No

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

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K3 X
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K5 X
K6
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K8
K9 X X X
K10 X X X X
K11 X X X
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