ECTS - Turkish Political Life
Turkish Political Life (IR309) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Turkish Political Life | IR309 | Area Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Elective Courses |
| Course Level | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture. |
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| Course Objectives | |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | The course focuses on different dimensions of the Turkish political life to provide a holistic perspective on it. It deals with incidents from the Ottoman Empire to the 1960 coup d?etat. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | None |
| 2 | Some Introductory Approaches to Turkish Political Development I | Heper, Metin. 1985. The State Tradition in Turkey. Washington: The Eothen Press (Chapter Two: The Ottoman Legacy, pp. 21-48). |
| 3 | Some Introductory Approaches to Turkish Political Development II | . Mardin, Şerif. 1969. “Power, Civil Society, and Culture in the Ottoman Empire,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 11: 258-281. |
| 4 | Ottoman Legacy | Ahmad, Feroz. 1993. The Making of Modern Turkey. London and New York: Routledge, 15-30. |
| 5 | The Founding of the Republic | Metin. 1985. The State Tradition. Washington: The Eothen Press (Chapter Three: The Transient Transcendental State, pp. 49-64). |
| 6 | The Early Republican Period and Kemalizm | Ahmad, Feroz. 1993. The Making of Modern Turkey. London and New York: Routledge (Chapter Four: The new Turkey: Politics, pp. 52-71). |
| 7 | The Single Party Era | Making of Modern Turkey. London and New York: Routledge (Chapter Five: The new Turkey: Society and Economy, pp. 72-101). |
| 8 | Midterm | None |
| 9 | Official Ideology and its Reflections | Aytürk, İlker. 2004. “Turkish Linguists against The West: The Origins of Linguistic Nationalism in Atatürk’s Turkey.” Middle Eastern Studies 40(6): 1-25. |
| 10 | "Gendering the Modern" | Kandiyoti, Deniz. 1997. “Gendering the Modern: On Missing Dimensions in the Study of Turkish Modernization” in Bozdoğan, Sibel and Reşat Kasaba (eds.) Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. |
| 11 | Rethinking Turkish Modernization | Kasaba, Reşat. 1993. “Populism and Democracy in Turkey 1946-1961,” in Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law and Society. Ellis Goldberg, Reşat Kasaba, and Joel Migdal (eds.). Seattle: University of Washington Press |
| 12 | Transition to Multi-Party Era | Difficult Journey to Democracy: The Transition to Comparative Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 61-82 |
| 13 | The Democratic Party Rule | Zürcher, Erik. J. Turkey A Modern History. 2007. London and New York: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, Chapter Thirteen: The Democratic Party Rule, 1950-1960, pp. 221-240. |
| 14 | The Coup of 1960 | Harris, George. 1970. “The Causes of the 1960 Revolution in Turkey,” Middle East Journal 24: 438-454. |
| 15 | Conclusive Remarks | None |
| 16 | Final Examination | None |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. Feroz Ahmad, The Making of Modern Turkey (Routledge, 1993) Eric J. Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History (I.B. Tauris, 2004 Edition) |
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| Other Sources | 2. Metin Heper-Sabri Sayarı, The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey (Routledge 2012) |
| 3. Joost Jongerden (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Turkey (Routledge 2022) | |
| 4. Güneş Murat Tezcür (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics (Oxford 2020) |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | 1 | 30 |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 40 |
| Toplam | 3 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 100 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Acquiring the skills of understanding, explaining, and using the fundamental concepts, theory and methodology of international relations | |||||
| 2 | Having an interdisciplinary perspective that combines other related disciplines | |||||
| 3 | Having adequate knowledge about the history of international relations and being able to examine international actors, events and historical processes | |||||
| 4 | Acquiring the ability of analytical thinking, critical analysis and developing rational argument | |||||
| 5 | Acquiring the ability to make analytical interpretations about the contemporary global issues; the current and future positions of regional and international actors | |||||
| 6 | Being able to use professional English to transfer her/his knowledge about the international relations using verbal, written and visual communication methods effectively | |||||
| 7 | Understanding the importance of several topics such as professional ethics, sustainability, environmental awareness, social responsibility, cultural, social and universal values; being able to manifest and analyze the legal results of these issues | |||||
| 8 | Being able to analyze the issues by using the qualitative and quantitative research techniques of international relations | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | |||
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 22 | 22 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload | 100 | ||