Course Details Language of Instruction English Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree Department / Program BA Program in Law (%30 English) Type of Program Formal Education Type of Course Unit Compulsory Course Delivery Method Face To Face Objectives of the Course (1) Grasping the basic chronology and factography of Turkey’s 20th century history. (2) Acquiring a sense of the vastness and complexity of that transformation. (3) Appreciating its non-linear nature. (4) Noting the interplay of the often-contradictory ideological driving forces behind it (modernism, nationalism, Islam). (5) Understanding the choices or trade-offs between (i) empire and liberty; (ii) modernization and democracy. (6) Being able to put all this in multiple comparative contexts, vis-à-vis (a) other “late” modernizations; (b) other non-European nationalisms; (c) other revolutions and revolutionary dictatorships. Course Content In 1908 the Young Turks or Unionists faced an “empire vs liberty” dilemma. They opted, or were forced into the former, drifting into a new, nationalist-modernist authoritarianism fueled by the Balkan Wars and Gallipoli. So within the intellectual ferment of the first two decades of the century there stirred the beginnings of an Anatolia-oriented populism. Then out of the fatique and despair of 1918-19, there came a call to mobilize for one last struggle. It involved the forging of a new leadership and of a program of resistance, allowing for the interplay of both local and national elements in a grand alliance for independence. From 1923 onwards, attention shifted to economic reconstruction; the ''smashing the idols'' refoms of the 1920s and 30s; and the construction of a new national identity through education, history, archeology, and folklore. The Great Depression brought a shift to greater statism, compounded by the difficulties of the war years, the reaction to which came with the 1946-50 transition to parliamentary pluralism. In conclusion, HIST 102 raises some broad analytical questions : the Kemalist revolution in comparative perspective; the emergence and development of a ''catching up agenda'' in a non -colonial context; the pragmatism and empiricism of Kemalism contrasted with other (later) examples of national developmentalism; the transition from military-bureaucratic tutelage to a more emphatically civilian governance; the prospects for Turkish democracy on the threshold of the 21st century. Course Methods and Techniques Prerequisites and co-requisities ( HIST 101 ) Course Coordinator None Name of Lecturers Associate Prof.Dr. Ali Aslan Assistants None Work Placement(s) No Recommended or Required Reading Resources https://canvas.ihu.edu.tr/courses/1099 Course Notes Prof. Dr. Halil Berktay Office: North Building K201 E-mail: halil.berktay@ihu.edu.tr Venue: Cihannüma Class Hours: Tue/Thu 09:00-10:00, Fri 09:00-11:00 Office Hours: by appointment Documents https://canvas.ihu.edu.tr/courses/1099 Assignments https://canvas.ihu.edu.tr/courses/1099 Exams https://canvas.ihu.edu.tr/courses/1099 Course Category Social Sciences %100