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PSIR471

TURKISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS

Course Code
PSIR471
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
5
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS5
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Know the beginning of Turkish-American relations in the Ottoman era and understand Turkish-American relations during the inter-war period, the minority uprisings in the Ottoman Empire and the missionary operations of the USA.
  2. Understand the policies followed by the parties during the Second World War.
  3. Understand the political conditions that prepared the Turkish-Usa Alliance during the Cold War.
  4. Acquire knowledge about the main events that shaped the Turkish-American relations during the Cold War.
  5. Understand the dynamics of the post-Cold War era through bilareral relations between Turkey and the USA.
  6. Acquire the abilities to research and write about the topic.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsThere is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
Course DescriptionThe scope of this course involves a survey of Turkish-American relations during the Ottoman Empire, the Republican period, the Cold War and its aftermath including theoretical, historical and fundamental issues. The purpose of this course is to develop a better understanding of key issues shaping Turkish-American relations. Another goal is to analyze how the United States' relations with Turkey developed with reference to U.S. foreign policy's general perspective and Turkish foreign policy's changing priorities, within the broader diplomatic history and set of international relations.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week The US Element in Ottoman Foreign Policy: First diplomatic negotiations (1799-1828), Diplomatic and consular organization in bilateral relations; American representation in Istanbul, US Consulates and Ottoman Special Representatives sent to the US
2nd Week American Foreign Policy after the Civil War: American support for national uprisings in the Ottoman Empire; the activities of American missionaries and their impact on bilateral relations
3rd Week Increasing Reputation of the USA in the Ottoman Empire and Improving Relations, the Proclamation of the Constitutional Monarchy and the USA
4th Week The period between the two wars: Turkish-American Relations during the National Struggle, American delegations to Turkey during the War of Independence, Wilsonian Principles and their reflections on Turkey, the Mandate issue, Admiral Bristol's influence on the resumption of relations, the Lausanne Conference and the American attitude, the resumption of official relations after 1931, the inauguration of American Ambassador Joseph C. Grew and Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Muhtar Bey.
5th Week The US policy of isolationism during World War II and Turkey's efforts to stay out of the war
6th Week Rapprochement in Turkish-American Relations and Unilateral Foreign Policy Period (1945-1960): Truman and Marshall Aid, NATO Membership
7th Week Midterm Exam
8th Week Problematic years in Turkish-American Relations and the questioning of relations and the multi-faceted Foreign Policy Period (1960-80): U-2 Spy Plane Crisis, Cuban Missile Crisis, Johnson Letter, Poppy Crisis, Cyprus Problem and Arms Embargo
9th Week Softening and Rapprochement in Turkish-American Relations (1980-1990)
10th Week Post-Cold War International System, Post-Cold War Turkey-US Relations, Effects of the 1st Gulf Operation on Relations
11th Week Post 9/11 Turkish-American Relations in the Context of Afghanistan Operation and ISAF
12th Week 2. Turkish-American Relations after the Iraq Operation (Tezkere Crisis)
13th Week A new model of cooperation in Turkish-American relations: The Greater Middle East Project
14th Week The Search for a Model Partnership instead of a Strategic Partnership in Turkish-American Relations: Obama's visit to Turkey, Mavi Marmara Attack, US Missile Shield Project
Recommended or Required ReadingAltunışık, Meliha B. "Turkish-American Security Relations: The Middle East Dimension", içinde Mustafa Aydın ve Çağrı Erhan (eds) Turkish-American Relations: Past,Present and Future, Routledge, 2004, ss.151-179.
Aydın, Mustafa. "II. Dünya Savaşı ve Türkiye 1939-1945", Baskın Oran (ed.) Türk Dış Politikası Kurtuluş Savaşından Bugüne Olgular, Belgeler, Yorumlar, cilt I, İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları, 2001, ss. 399-477.
Aydın, Mustafa. "Reconstructing Turkish-American relations: Divergences Versus Convergences", New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol.40, Spring 2009, ss.127-148.
Criss, Nur B."Shades of Diplomatic Recognition: American Encounters with Turkey" içinde Nur Bilge Criss ve George S.Harris (eds) Studies in Atatürk's Turkey: The American Dimension, Brill, 2009, ss.97-144.
Deringil, Selim. "Active neutrality" & "On the razor's edge", içinde Turkish Foreign Policy during the Second World War, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ss.133-166.
Eligür, Banu. "Turkish-American Relations Since the 2003 Iraqi War: A Troubled Partnership", Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, May 2006, No.6.
Erhan, Çağrı. "Osmanlı -Amerikan İlişkilerinin Başlangıcında Temel Faktörler (1776-1830), Çağdaş Türk Diplomasisi: 200 Yıllık Süreç , 15-18 Ekim 1997, Sempozyuma Sunulan Tebliğler, Ankara, TTK, 1997.
Erhan, Çağrı. "Ottoman Official Attitudes Towards American Missionaries", Milletlerarası Münasebetler Yıllığı, (The Turkish Yearbook of International Relation), XXX, 2000, ss.191-212.
Erhan, Çağrı. "ABD ve NATO'yla İlişkiler", Baskın Oran (ed.) Türk Dış Politikası Kurtuluş Savaşından Bugüne Olgular, Belgeler, Yorumlar, cilt I, İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları, 2001, ss. 522-576; 681-716.
Han, Ahmet K. "From Strategic Partnership to Model Partnership: AKP, Turkish-US Relations and the prospects under Obama", UNISCI Discussion Papers, No.23, May 2010.
Harris, George S. "Turkish-American Relations Since the Truman Doctrine", içinde Mustafa Aydın ve Çağrı Erhan (eds), Turkish -American relations: Past, Present and Future, Routledge, 2004, ss.66-87.
Harris, George S. Troubled Alliance: Turkish-American problems in Historical Perspective, 1945-1971, AEI-Hoover policy studies, 1972, ss.125- 175.
Kirişçi, Kemal. "U.S.-Turkish Relations: New Uncertainties in a Renewed Partnership," in Barry Rubin and Kemal Kirişçi (eds.), Turkey in World Politics:An Emerging Multiregional Power (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001), pp.132-37
Kocabaşoğlu, Uygur. " Doğu Sorunu Çerçevesinde Amerikan Misyoner Faaliyetleri", Tarihi Gelişmeler içinde Türkiye'nin Sorunları Sempozyumu, 2. Baskı, TTK Yayınları, Ankara, 1995, ss.65-73.
Özcan, Gencer. "Doksanlı Yıllarda Türkiye'nin Değişen Güvenlik Ortamı", içinde Gencer, Özcan ve Şule Kut (der.), En Uzun On Yıl: Türkiye'nin Ulusal Güvenlik ve Dış Politika Gündeminde Doksanlı Yıllar, İstanbul, Büke Yayınları,2000, ss.
Rubin, Michael. "A Comedy of Errors: Anerican-Turkish Diplomacy and the Iraq Ear", Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol.4, No.1, Spring 2005.
Türkmen, Füsun. "Turkish-American Relations: A Challenging Transition, Turkish Studies, Vol.10, Issue 1, 2009, ss.109-129.
Şimşir, Bilal. Ermeni Propagandasının Amerika Boyutu Üzerine, Atatürk Üniversitesi Yyaınları, Erzurum, 1984.
Tanır, İlhan. "How the Arap Spring is transforming Turkish-American Relations, Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol.10, No.3, 2012.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
  • Questions/Answers
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 40
Total(%) 40
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 60
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 2 28
Preparation for Final exam 1 40 40
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 40 40
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 1.15 1.15
Homework
Total Work Load152.15
Total Work Load / 30 (h)5.07
ECTS Credit of the Course5
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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