| Learning Outcomes |
PO |
MME |
| The students who succeeded in this course: |
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| LO-1 |
Students will be able to explain Atatürk’s reforms and Turkish Foreign Policy in Atatürk’s period. |
PO-8 Knows the importance of life long learning, keeping up-to-date with developments in science and technology and being able to continuously improving herself/himself.
PO-9 Has the awareness of Professional and ethical responsibilities.
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Examination
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| LO-2 |
Students will be able to explain the political developments in Turkey and the world during and after the Second World War. |
PO-8 Knows the importance of life long learning, keeping up-to-date with developments in science and technology and being able to continuously improving herself/himself.
PO-9 Has the awareness of Professional and ethical responsibilities.
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Examination
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| LO-3 |
Students will be able to explain commitment to the nation and the state with energy taken from Turkish history and Turkish National Struggle. |
PO-8 Knows the importance of life long learning, keeping up-to-date with developments in science and technology and being able to continuously improving herself/himself.
PO-9 Has the awareness of Professional and ethical responsibilities.
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Examination
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PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
| Course Contents |
| Atatürk’s reforms. Turkish Foreign Policy in Atatürk’s period. Atatürk’s principles. Political developments in Turkey and the world after 1938.
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| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
The reforms in the political field (The removal of the sultanate, declaration of Ankara as the capital, declaration of the Republic and abolition of the Caliphate). |
Lecture and discussion |
| 2 |
The foundation of the Progressive Republican Party, Sheikh Said Rebellion, declaration of the tranquility law and the attempted assassination of Atatürk. |
Lecture and discussion |
| 3 |
The foundation of the Free Republican Party, The rally of İzmir, closing the party, Menemen and Bursa events. |
Lecture and discussion |
| 4 |
The Constitution of 1924, other constitutions, the developments in the area of law, reforms regarding the regulation of social life and the process of secularization of the Republic of Turkey. |
Lecture and discussion |
| 5 |
Reforms related to education and Culture (the Unification of the Education, introduction of the Latin letters, National Schools, establishment of Turkish history and Turkish Language Institutions and their activities, Turkish history thesis, the sun-language theory, 1933 university reform, (the People's Houses), healthcare developments. |
Lecture and discussion |
| 6 |
İzmir Economic Congress, economic policies in the first years of the Republic, the World Economic Depression in 1929 and its reflection on the statist economic policy agenda of Turkey, and the I. Five-Year Development Program. |
Lecture and discussion |
| 7 |
Turkish foreign policy during the Atatürk period (Turkish-English, Turkish-Soviet, Turkish-French, Turkish-Italian relations during 1923 to 1938, and relations with the neighbors, and Sadabat and Balkan Pacts). |
Lecture and discussion |
| 8 |
mid-term exam |
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| 9 |
Kemalist Thought System, its scope and Principles (republicanism, secularism, nationalism, populism, statism, reformism) and threats to those principles. |
Lecture and discussion |
| 10 |
Turkey After Ataturk (Inonu's presidency, II. World War and Turkey, foundation of the Democratic Party and the transition to multiparty system). |
Lecture and discussion |
| 11 |
Democratic Party’s rule, Turkey's entry to NATO, 27 May 1960 military intervention. |
Lecture and discussion |
| 12 |
Political developments in Turkey during the 1960s and '70s (1961 Constitution, Justice Party’s rule, 12 March 1971 military intervention, left-right conflicts). |
Lecture and discussion |
| 13 |
Domestic political developments in Turkey from September 12 1980 to the present day (the country's situation after September 12 military intervention, the return to the civil administration, the Motherland Party government, the coalition government, political and economic crises, military interventions to the civil administrations). |
Lecture and discussion |
| 14 |
Foreign policy of Turkey from 1960 to the present (Turkey during the Cold War, developments with the European Union, the Cyprus Peace Operation, relation with neighbors). |
Lecture and discussion |
| 15 |
So-called Armenian genocide allegations and the facts (Armenians under the Ottoman rule, Armenian revolts, the relocation, Armenians during the National War of Independence and the Republic era, ASALA and Armenian terrorism, Turkey's actions in the face of the Armenian Diaspora. |
Lecture and discussion |
| 16 |
final exam |
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| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
Mevlüt Çelebi, Türk İnkılâp Tarihi, İzmir 2009 |
| 2 |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk-Söylev, 4 cilt, TTK yayını, Ankara 2010. |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
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