Course Name | Turkish Political Thought |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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PSIR 559 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Elective | |||||
Course Level | Second Cycle | |||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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Course Objectives | This course offers students an overview of intellectual trends in Ottoman-Turkish history. Special attention will be paid to the evolution of major political thoughts as liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, islamism, socialism and feminism. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | Special attention will be paid to the evolution of major political thoughts as liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, islamism, socialism and feminism. |
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Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introduction and review of syllabus | |
2 | Historical background | Feroz Ahmad, The Making of Modern Turkey (London and New York: Routledge, 1993). Niyazi Berkes, The Development of Secularism in Turkey (Montreal: McGill University, 1960). |
3 | Turkish Liberalism I | Ali Erkul. “Prens Sabahattin,” Emre Kongar (der.), Türk Toplumbilimcileri I, (Istanbul: Remzi, 1982). |
4 | Turkish Liberalism II | Simten Coşar, "Ahmet Ağaoğlu: Türk Liberalizminin Açmazlarına Bir Giriş,” Toplum ve Bilim, 74, Güz 1997. Simten Coşar, “Ahmet Ağaoğlu,” Tanıl Bora, Murat Gültekingil (der.) içinde, Modern Türkiye'de Siyasi Düşünce, Liberalizm, Cilt 7, (İstanbul: İletişim, 2005), s. 236-242. Ayşe Kadıoğlu, “Milliyetçilik-Liberalizm Ekseninde Vatandaşlık ve Bireysellik,” Tanıl Bora (der.), Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce: Milliyetçilik, Cilt 4 (Istanbul: İletişim, 2002, ss, 284-293). |
5 | Turkish Conservatism I | Tanıl Bora, "Muhafazakârlığın Değişimi ve Türk Muhafazakârlığında Bazı Yol İzleri," Toplum ve Bilim , no.74 (1997): 6-30. Ahmet Çiğdem, "Muhafazarlık Üstüne," Toplum ve Bilim, no.74 (1997): 32-51. |
6 | Turkish Conservatism II | Süleyman Seyfi Öğün, "Türk Muhafazakarlığının Kültür Kökleri ve Peyami Safa'nın Yanılgısı," Toplum ve Bilim no.74 (1997): 102-153. |
7 | Islamism | Ali Bulaç, “İslâm’ın Üç Siyaset Tarzı veya İslâmcıların Üç Nesli,” Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce: İslamcılık, Cilt 6 (Istanbul: İletişim, 2004). Nuray Mert, “Türkiye İslâmcılığına Tarihsel Bir Bakış,” Yasin Aktay (ed.) Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce: İslamcılık, Cilt 6 (Istanbul: İletişim, 2004). |
8 | Midterm | |
9 | Nationalism | Andrew Davison, “Secularization and Modernization in Turkey: the Ideas of Ziya Gökalp,” Economy and Society, 24/2, May 1995, pp. 189-224. Kerem Ünüvar, “Ziya Gökalp,” Tanıl Bora (der.), Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce: Milliyetçilik, Cilt 4 (Istanbul: İletişim, 2002). |
10 | Extreme nationalism | Jacob M. Landau, Pan-Turkism : From Irredentism to Cooperation (London : Hurst & Company, 1995). |
11 | Socialism | Murat Belge, “Türkiye’de Sosyalizm Tarihinin Ana Çizgileri,” Murat Gültekingil (ed.) Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce: Sol, Cilt 8 (Istanbul: İletişim, 2007). |
12 | Socialism II | Mustafa Türkeş, "The Ideology of the Kadro [Kadre] Movement: A Patriotic Leftist Movement in Turkey," in Turkey Before and After Atatürk, edited by Sylvia Kedourie (London: Frank Cass, 1999): 92-119. İlhan Tekeli & Selim İlkin, "Türkiye'de Bir Aydın Hareketi: Kadro," Toplum ve Bilim, no. 24, (Winter 1984): 35-67. |
13 | Feminism | Nükhet Sirman, “Feminism in Turkey: A Short History,” New Perspectives on Turkey, 3/1, Fall 1989. Kadıoğlu, Ayşe, “Women's Subordination in Turkey: Is Islam Really the Villain?,” Middle East Journal, 48/4, Autumn 1994, pp. 645-661. |
14 | Review of the semester | |
15 | Review of the semester | |
16 | Final Examination |
Course Notes/Textbooks | All course readings are available at the University Library and as open sources. |
Suggested Readings/Materials | • Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey (London: Oxford University Press, 1961). • Stanford J. and Ezel Kural Shaw, History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Volume 2: Reform, Revolution and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey, 1908–1975 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977). • Feroz Ahmad, The Making of Modern Turkey (London and New York: Routledge, 1993). • Geoffrey Lewis, Modern Turkey (London and Tonbridge: Ernest Benn, 1974). • Roderic Davison, Turkey: A Short History, 2nd edn (Huntingdon: Eothen, 1988). Niyazi Berkes, The Development of Secularism in Turkey (Montreal: McGill University Press, 1964). • Çağlar Keyder, State and Class in Turkey: A Study in Capitalist Development (London: Verso, 1987). • Tanzimat'tan Cumhuriyet'e Türkiye Ansiklopedisi, 6 volumes (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 1986). • Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türkiye Ansiklopedisi, 10 volumes (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 1983). • Sina Akşin, editor, Türkiye Tarihi, Volumes 4–5: Çağdaş Türkiye, 1908–1980, and Bugünkü Türkiye, 1980–2003 (İstanbul: Cem Yayınevi, 1989–2003). • Ergun Özbudun, Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000). • Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, Turkish Dynamics: Bridge Across Troubled Lands (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). • Sina Akşin, Turkey from Empire to Revolutionary Republic: The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to the Present (New York: New York University Press, 2007). • Modern Türkiye'de Siyasî Düşünce, 8 volumes (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2001–2007) |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | ||
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 30 |
Presentation / Jury | ||
Project | ||
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | 1 | 30 |
Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 2 | 60 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 9 | 144 |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 30 | |
Presentation / Jury | |||
Project | |||
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | 1 | 6 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 10 | |
Total | 238 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To improve theoretical and conceptual proficiencies on Political Science and International Relations and to ultimately deepen and develop intellectual interest | X | ||||
2 | To evaluate the relationships between factors in the field of Political Science and International Relations such as structures, actors, institutions and culture in a critical perspective | X | ||||
3 | To provide advanced competences to determine and question the theoretical and emprical gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature | X | ||||
4 | To identify the political and cultual conditions that generate discrimination mechanisms based on race, ethnic groups, gender and religion at national and international levels | X | ||||
5 | To provide competences to develop original arguments in order to fill the gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature | X | ||||
6 | To determine, collect, resolve, and interpret the data that would measure the theories and concepts as variables by using scientific research methods in Political Science and International Relations field | X | ||||
7 | To use confidently the terms and concepts of Political Science and International Relations | X | ||||
8 | To communicate systematically, in written, oral, and visual forms, contemporary developments in Political Science and International Relations to groups inside and outside the said discipline | X | ||||
9 | To take responsibility in an individual capacity and as part of a team in generating solutions to unexpected problems that arise in relation to politics in daily life | X | ||||
10 | To develop projects determining the institutional and political instruments for management of domestic and international conflicts | X | ||||
11 | To prepare an orginal thesis/term project about Political Science and International Relations in accordance with scentific criteria | X | ||||
12 | To design and carry out a scientific research project in the field of Political Science and International Relations | X | ||||
13 | To have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of collecting, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data relevant to Political Science and International Relations | X |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest