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PSIR333

TURKISH POLITICAL HISTORY I

Course Code
PSIR333
Semester
Fifth Term (Fall)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
3
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study3
SemesterFifth Term (Fall)
ECTS3
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. Can evaluate the changing meaning of politics in the modernization process and the parties, main axes, deficiencies and distortions of the democracy debate by using the concepts of political science.
  5. Gain knowledge about the concept of political instability and its causes.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsThere is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
Course DescriptionKThis course aims at equipping the students with some of the basic conceptual tools derived from the political development literature in understanding the Turkish politics, and in assessing its achievements and failures. By the end of the course, students will be provided with essential skills to analyze and problematize the main patterns and developments in Turkish politics during the period under study, that is, from the establishment of the Republic to the 1980 coup. Although the course follows a chronological order, it is less about the history of Turkish politics than about political analysis of Turkey?s political history.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week An Introduction to main questions of the Turkish political history.
2nd Week The Ottoman Background
3rd Week Establishment and Consolidation of the Republic
4th Week The Single Party Regime and the Modernizing Reforms
5th Week Transition to Multi Party Regime
6th Week Midterm Exam
7th Week The Rule of DP as a Prelude to Center-Right Tradition
8th Week The Causes of the 1960 Military Intervention and the Establishment of the Second Republic
9th Week Enduring the Legacy of the DP: the Justice Party
10th Week The RPP to ?the left of the centre?
11th Week Religion and Politics: Emergence of Political Islam.
12th Week Extreme Right Wing Nationalism
13th Week The Stillbirth of the Turkish Left?
14th Week Some Causes of Democratic Instability and the 1980 Coup
Recommended or Required ReadingKemal Karpat, Osmanlı Tarihinin Dönemleri, Osmanlı ve Dünya içinde derl. Kemal Karpat, (Ufuk: İstanbul, 2001), pp. 119-145.
Dietrich Jung and Wolfango Piccoli, Turkey at the Crossroads (Zed Books: London & New York: 2001), pp. 28-58.
Suavi Aydın, İki İttihat-Terakki: İki Ayrı Zihniyet, İki Ayrı Siyaset, in Mehmet O. Alkan, ed., Tanzimat ve Meşrutiyetin Birikimi, (İletişim: İstanbul, 2001), pp. 117-128.
Kemal Karpat, Türk Demokrasi Tarihi, Cumhuriyetin Kuruluşu ve Gelişmesi, (Timaş: İstanbul, 2010), pp. 119-164
Feroz Ahmad, The Progressive Republican Party, 1924-1925, in Metin Heper and Jacob Landau, eds., Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey (I.B.Tauris: London, 1991), pp. 65-82.
İlter Turan, Stages of Political Development in the Turkish Republic, in Ergun Ozbudun, ed., Perspectives on Democracy in Turkey (Turkish Political Science Association: Ankara, 1988), pp. 61-64.
Yerasimos, S. (2006) Tek Parti Dönemi, Geçiş Sürecinde Türkiye, der. C. Schick ve E. Ahmet Tonak, Belge Yayınları: İstanbul.
Ergun Özbudun, The Nature of the Kemalist Political Regime, in Ali Kazancıgil and Ergun Özbudun, eds., Atatürk: Founder of a Modern State, pp.79-102.
Kemal Karpat, The Republican People s Party, 1923-1945, in Metin Heper and Jacob Landau, eds., Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey (I.B.Tauris: London, 1991), pp. 42-64.
Cemil Koçak, Tek Parti Yönetimi, Kemalizm ve Şeflik Sistemi, MTSD 2: Kemalizm, ed. A. İnsel, İletişim, İstanbul, 2009.
Şerif Mardin, Religion and Secularism in Turkey, in Ali Kazancıgil and Ergun Özbudun, eds., Atatürk: Founder of a Modern State (Archon Books: Hamden, Connecticut, 1981), pp. 191-219.
Eroğul, C. (2006) Çok Partili Düzenin Kuruluşu, 1945-71, Geçiş Sürecinde Türkiye, der. C. Schick ve E. Ahmet Tonak, Belge Yayınları: İstanbul.
Ilter Turan, Stages of Political Development in the Turkish Republic, pp. 64-72.
İlkay Sunar, Demokrat Parti ve Popülizm, Demokrasi: Türkiye Serüveni içinde derl. İlkay Sunar, (Doruk: İstanbul, 2010), pp. 43-65.
Eroğul, C. (2006) Çok Partili Düzenin Kuruluşu, 1945-71, Geçiş Sürecinde Türkiye, der. C. Schick ve E. Ahmet Tonak, Belge Yayınları: İstanbul.
Yüksel Taşkın, Milliyetçi Muhafazakar Entelijansıya (İletişim: İstanbul, 2007), chp 3. Demokrat Parti?nin Muhafazakar Popülist Bakiyesi ve Milliyetçi Muhafazakarlığın Merrkez Sağ İle Gerilimli İlişkisi
Ali Yaşar Sarıbay, The Democratic Party, in Metin Heper and Jacob Landau, eds., Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey (I.B.Tauris: London, 1991), pp. 119-133.
Reşat Kasaba, Populism and Democracy in Turkey, 1946-1961 in Ellis Goldberg et al. eds. Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law, and Society (University of Washington Press: Seattle, 1993), pp. 43-68.
Cem Emrence, Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası (İletişim: İstanbul, 2006).
Eroğul, C. (2006) Çok Partili Düzenin Kuruluşu, 1945-71, Geçiş Sürecinde Türkiye, der. C. Schick ve E. Ahmet Tonak, Belge Yayınları: İstanbul.
George Harris, The Causes of the 1960 Revolution in Turkey, The Middle East Journal, 24 (1970), pp. 438-454.
Ilter Turan, Stages of Political Development in the Turkish Republic, pp. 72-94.
For political history see Cem Erogul, The Establishment of Multiparty Rule: 1945-71, pp. 118-139.
Tanel Demirel, Adalet Partisi, Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Düşünce, Cilt 7: Liberalizm içinde derl. Murat Yılmaz, (İletşimim: İstanbul, 2005), pp. 548-583.
W.B. Sherwood, The Rise of the Justice Party in Turkey, World Politics, 20, (1968).
Tanel Demirel, Adalet Partisi: İdeoloji ve Politika, (İstanbul: İletişim, 2004), pp. 79-145.
Feroz Ahmad, Turkish Experiment in Democracy: 1950-1975 (C. Hurst &Company: London, 1977), pp. 232-267.
Tarhan Erdem, CHP'de Parti İçi Mücadelede Kemalizm ve Devrimler Tartışmaları Üzerine, MTSD 2: Kemalizm, ed. A. İnsel, İletişim, İstanbul, 2009.
Sungur Savran, CHP ve Sosyal Demokrasi: Bir İlişkinin Anatomisi, 11. Tez, 4 (1986), pp. 78-106.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 40
Attendance 1 10
Total(%) 50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 1 1 1
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work 14 1 14
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 1
Homework
Total Work Load103
Total Work Load / 30 (h)3.43
ECTS Credit of the Course3
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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