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Language of Instruction
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English
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Level of Course Unit
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Bachelor's Degree
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Department / Program
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Political Science and İnternational Relations (English)
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Type of Program
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Formal Education
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Type of Course Unit
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Compulsory
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Course Delivery Method
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Face To Face
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Objectives of the Course
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This course is structured to provide a forum of discussion for undergraduate students of political science.
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Course Content
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This course gives an overview of debates in the study of Turkish politics. Students will encounter various views on the role of nationalism, ethnicity, religion, the military, the media, gender, populism, migration, social policy, politics of EU membership process, foreign policy, political economy, and elections in Turkey’s politics.
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Course Methods and Techniques
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For each class, all students will be expected to prepare a brief synopsis of the readings in order to begin the discussion. Critical thinking and examples from current political events are also encouraged. Class attendance and participation will be an important part of the student’s grade. Students are expected to write 7 short response papers (2 pages: around 500 words each) on the assigned readings of the day. Response papers will be succinct account of the readings and will prepare the ground for class discussions.
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Prerequisites and co-requisities
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None
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Course Coordinator
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None
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Name of Lecturers
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Asist Prof. Ahmet Özcan
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Assistants
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None
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Work Placement(s)
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No
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Recommended or Required Reading
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Resources
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Feroz Ahmad “Politics and Political Parties in Republican Turkey,” in R. Kasaba (ed.) The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 4. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 226-265.
Ayşe Kadıoğlu, “The Twin Motives of Turkish Nationalism,” in Kadıoğlu and Keyman (eds.), Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey, (Utah University Press), 2011, 33-56.
Metin Heper The State and Kurds in Turkey: The Question of Assimilation (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Jenny White “Islam and Politics in Contemporary Turkey,” in R. Kasaba (ed.) The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 4. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 357-80.
Ümit Cizre, “Ideology, Context and Interests: the Turkish Military,” The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 4. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 301-332.
Raşit Kaya and Barış Çakmur, “Politics and the Mass Media in Turkey,” Turkish Studies, 11:4 (2010), 521-537.
Yeşim Arat, “Contestation and collaboration: women’s struggles for empowerment in Turkey,” The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 4. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 388-418.
Ahmet İçduygu, Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Long Road Ahead, (Washington DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2015).
Michael M. Gunter, “Iraq, Syria, ISIS and the Kurds: Geostrategic Concerns for the US and Turkey, Middle East Policy, 22:1 (2015), 102- 111.
Sencer Ayata, “Poverty, Social Policy and Modernity in Modern Turkey,” C. Kerslake et al. (eds.) Turkey’s Engagement with Modernity: Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 190-209.
Ziya Öniş, “The Triumph of Conservative Globalism: The Political Economy of the AKP Era,” Turkish Studies, 13:2 (2012), 135-152.
Ziya Öniş, “Turkey and the Arab Revolutions: Boundaries of Regional Power Influence in a Turbulent Middle East,” Mediterranean Politics, 19:2 (2014), 203- 219.
Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, “The Turkish-EU Odyssey and Political Regime Change in Turkey,” South European Society and Politics, 16:2 (2011), 265-278.
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Course Notes
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Eric Jan Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History. I. B. Tauris, 2004.
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