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Ph.D. in Political Science

PSIR604

MODERN TURKISH POLITICS

Course Code
PSIR604
Semester
Second Term (Spring)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
10
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelDoctorate Of Science
Year of Study1
SemesterSecond Term (Spring)
ECTS10
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Gain comprehensive knowledge about the main patterns, dynamics and problems of Turkish political development and democratization
  2. Gain conceptual and analytical skills to use this knowledge in the comprehension and analysis of contemporary Turkish politics
  3. Develop an understanding of the domestic and international challenges and impediments to democratization in Turkey
  4. Conceive the connections between the actors, their choices and social structures.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsNo
Course DescriptionThe aim of this course is to analyse the basic dynamics and actors of modern Turkish politics, democratic successes and failures from a historical perspective, and by this way to equip students with conceptual tools to analyse Turkish politics' patterns, developments and problems. Following this, starting from Ottoman modernization, the power relationships/struggles, which "constructed" the modern Turkish politics, their actors and related social structures is analysed from a democratization perspective by also taking into account the international context.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week The Ottoman Background: Modernization and its Dilemmas
2nd Week Establishment of the Republic
3rd Week The Nature of the Kemalist Regime: 1925-1946
4th Week Transition Competitive Politics
5th Week The Emergence of the Center Right Tradition
6th Week The Rule of the DP: Populism and Patronage
7th Week The 1960 Military Intervention and the Political Role of the Military
8th Week Mid-term Exam
9th Week Political Pluralization, Fragmentation and Instability: 1969-1980
10th Week The New Grounds of Politics in the 1980s
11th Week The Özal Era and its Impact on Turkish Politics
12th Week Turkey's Lost Decade: Instability, Islamism and Intervention in the 1990s I - II
13th Week Realignment, Europeanization and the Predominance of the JDP
14th Week The JDP's Identity Politics and its Problems
Recommended or Required ReadingSuavi Aydın ve Yüksel Taşkın, Türkiye Tarihi: 1960'tan Günümüze, İletişim, İstanbul, 2014.
Feroz Ahmad, Turkish Experiment in Democracy: 1950-1975 (Westview: Boulder, Colarado, 1977).
Ersin Kalaycıoğlu Turkish Dynamics: Bridge Across Troubled Lands (Palgrave: London, 2005).
Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2002 [1961]).
Kemal Karpat, "The Stages of Ottoman History", in Kemal Karpat, ed., The Ottoman State and Its Place in the World History (E.J.Brill: Leiden, 1974), pp. 79-98.
Dietrich Jung and Wolfango Piccoli, Turkey at the Crossroads (Zed Books: London & New York: 2001).
Gökhan Çetinsaya, "Kalemiye'den Mülkiye"ye Tanzimat Zihniyeti, in Mehmet O. Alkan, ed., Tanzimat ve Meşutiyet'in Birikimi, (İletişim: İstanbul, 2001), pp. 55-71.
Suavi Aydın, "İki İttihat-Terakki: İki Ayrı Zihniyet, İki Ayrı Siyaset," in Mehmet O. Alkan, ed., Tanzimat ve Meşutiyet'in Birikimi, (İletişim: İstanbul, 2001), pp. 117-128.
Doğan Özlem, "Türkiye'de Pozitivizm ve Siyaset," in Uygur Kocabaşoğlu, ed., Modernleşme ve Batıcılık, (İletişim: İstanbul, 2002), pp.453-464
Kemal Karpat, The Establishment and Development of the Republic", in Kemal Karpat, ed., Turkey's Politics: the Transition to Multiparty System (Princeton University Press: Prince-ton, New Jersey, 1959), pp. 32-76.
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.
Cem Emrence, Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası, (İletişim: İstanbul, 2006).
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).
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.
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 Lan-dau, eds., Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey (I.B.Tauris: London, 1991), pp. 42-64.
İlkay Sunar, State and Society in the Politics of Turkey's Development (SBF Yayınları: Anka-ra, 1974), pp. 67-80.
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 Was-hington Press: Seattle, 1993), pp. 43-68.
George Harris, "The Causes of the 1960 Revolution in Turkey," The Middle East Journal, 24 (1970), pp. 438-454.
Tanel Demirel, Adalet Partisi: İdeoloji ve Politika, Istanbul: Iletişim, 2004, pp. 79-145.
W.B. Sherwood, "The Rise of the Justice Party in Turkey", World Politics, 20, (1968).
Emin Alper, "Milliyetçilik-Modernleşme Geriliminde 'ortanın solu' ve Ecevit," Toplum ve Bi-lim, 93 (2002): 110-141.
Binnaz Toprak, "The Religious Right", in Irwin C. Schick and Ertuğrul Ahmet Tonak, eds., Turkey in Transition - New Perspectives (Oxford University Press: London, 1987), pp.218-235.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
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 2 2
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work 14 7 98
Preparation for Final exam 1 80 80
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 80 80
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 3 3
Homework
Total Work Load305
Total Work Load / 30 (h)10.16
ECTS Credit of the Course10
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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