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Program of Political Science and International Relations (English)

POLI306

TURKISH POLITICAL HISTORY II

Course Code
POLI306
Semester
Sixth Term (Spring)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
5
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study3
SemesterSixth Term (Spring)
ECTS5
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. gain extensive knowledge about fundamental issues and developments in contemporary Turkish political history;
  2. develop sophisticated, non-reductionist, analytical vision about Turkish political development with a special emphasis on prospects and challenges in the history of Turkish experience with democracy;
  3. identify, relate and critically main influential actors of Turkish politics (i.e. state elites, political elites, pressure groups, etc.), their political and ideological positions as well as socio-political conditions that pave the way to the emergence of these political actors;
  4. develop their own thoughts and ideas through analytically and critically engaging with the main scholarly trends on Turkish politics as well as developing empirically supported opinions and ideas about complex issues that have been influential in shaping the Turkish political history; and
  5. identify, relate and write about major achievements of Turkey in structuring democratic politics as well as the major pitfalls that democracy has suffered from in the country.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsThere is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
Course DescriptionThis course aims to cover the main political developments and major political events in Turkish political history since the foundation of the so-called the `2nd Republic? following the 1960 military intervention. The course is designed to introduce the complex interrelations between political institutions and influential actors in the light of turbulent developments that Turkish democracy and politics in general have experienced from the 1960s onwards. In so doing, we will elaborate repeated institutionalisation and re-institutionalisation of the Turkish state as well as major outcomes of these processes with a special emphasis on the Turkish experience with democracy. We will focus on reasons, characteristics, processes and outcomes of political confrontations as well as alliances within and between bureaucratic state elites and political parties while taking Turkey?s endeavours to democracy (or democratisation) to the centre.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Introduction of the Course Syllabus
2nd Week Characteristics of 1961 Constitution and Major Political Parties
3rd Week Pluralisation of Parties, Elections and New Politics of the 1960s
4th Week Submission of Response Paper 1 + Politics and Society in and after 1971 Ultimatum
5th Week The 1980 Coup and the Rule of the Military
6th Week Submission of Response Paper 2 + 1982 Constitution and the Restructuring of State and Politics
7th Week Mid-Term Exam
8th Week Özal Era and Beyond: Challenges and New Dynamics of post-1980 Turkish Politics
9th Week Elections and Political Parties?1: The Centre-Right
10th Week Elections and Political Parties?2: The Centre-Left and Nationalist Movements
11th Week Overviewing Turkish Politics in the post-1990s: Challenges to Kemalism
12th Week Submission of Response Paper 3 + The Rise of Islamic Political Movements and the Transformation of the Political Landscape
13th Week Turkey's Kurdish Question
14th Week Submission of Response Paper 4 + The AK Party and the `Promise? of Democracy
Recommended or Required ReadingBooks:
Ahmad, F. (1993) The Making of Modern Turkey (London and New York: Routledge).
Heper, M. (1985) The State Tradition in Turkey (London: Eothen 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).
Bozdoğan, S., and R. Kasaba (eds.) (1997) Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press).
Kalaycıoğlu, E. (2005) Turkish Dynamics: Bridge across Troubled Lands (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
Dodd, C. H. (1979) Democracy and Development in Turkey (London: The Eothen Press).

Periodicals:
Turkish Studies - https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ftur20
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies - https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbss20
The Middle East Journal - https://www.jstor.org/journal/middeastj
Middle Eastern Studies - https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fmes20

Useful Links
Demirkırat Belgeseli (M. A. Birand)?Turkey in the 1950s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBPfjeWbp9Q&list=PL19EshdPt3R80rux_vc-tC_8QjvI4JyCM&ab_channel=32.G%C3%BCnAr%C5%9Fivi

12 Mart: İhtilalin Pençesinde Demokrasi (M. A. Birand)?Turkey in the 1960s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Hwh7mrZU0&list=PL19EshdPt3R_okjpo0R4I_ApHg54V327Q&ab_channel=32.G%C3%BCnAr%C5%9Fivi

12 Eylül: Türkiye?nin Miladı (M. A. Birand)?Turkey in the 1970s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uk6iOJ6phk&list=PL19EshdPt3R9k0g2zuAIgGDpVNLKnzts5&ab_channel=32.G%C3%BCnAr%C5%9Fivi

Özallı Yıllar (M. A. Birand)?Turkey in the 1980s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TyEGJuwZfQ

28 Şubat: Son Darbe (M. A. Birand ? R. Akar)?Turkey after the rise of Islamic counter-hegemony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WgMlVFljV4&list=PL19EshdPt3R8YxSSa_RGLGbd_WZguD5cQ&ab_channel=32.G%C3%BCnAr%C5%9Fivi
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 30
Assignment 4 30
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 3 42
Preparation for Final exam 1 25 25
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 20 20
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 1.5 1.5
Homework 4 5 20
Total Work Load152
Total Work Load / 30 (h)5.06
ECTS Credit of the Course5
Language of InstructionEnglish
Work Placement(s)No

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

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K5 X
K6 X
K7 X
K8 X X X
K9 X X X
K10 X X
K11 X X X
K12 X
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