Dersin Ayrıntıları
YarıyılKoduAdıT+U+LKrediAKTS
1POLS 505Turkish Politics3+0+038

Dersin Detayları
Dersin Dili İngilizce
Dersin Düzeyi Yüksek Lisans
Bölümü / Programı Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Tezli Yüksek Lisans Programı (İngilizce)
Öğrenim Türü Örgün Öğretim
Dersin Türü Seçmeli
Dersin Amacı This course aims to discuss and analyze the leading issues and problems of Turkey by locating them within the international and domestic milieu. For this reason, the course is based on lectures and discussions. Thus, active student participation and the reading of course material before attending the lectures are expected and required.
Dersin İçeriği This course deals with the contemporary issues/problems of Turkish politics since 1980. In doing so, it will begin with a general introduction of main parameters of the Turkish political system, change and continuity, center-periphery relations, securitization, and historical legacy. It will cover a brief history from 1980 to 2000s, including 12 September 1980 military intervention, the 1982 Constitution and the new political structure, Özal period, neo-liberal economic policies, the coalitions in the 1990s and economic crises; the 2002 elections and the 15 years of AK Party period with an emphasis on the last four turbulent years.
This course also aims to study some of the political leaders that have shaped politics in Turkey since 1980: Turgut Özal, Necmettin Erbakan, Bülent Ecevit, Süleyman Demirel, and R. Tayyip Erdoğan along with political parties including the Republican People’s Party (RPP), the Nationalist Action Party (NAP), and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). Special attention will be given to the civil-military relations, the EU and democratization process and the recent crisis in Turkish democracy since 2013 the Gezi Park protests. The course will also tackle the issues of identity: different aspects of Islamism in Turkey and its variations; the rise of Alevi identity in the 1990s and the politicization of Kurdish identity in Turkey; the PKK and the rise and fall of Kurdish Resolution Process. The transformation of Turkish foreign policy and its problems especially after the Syrian civil war will be examined in detail. This course concludes by taking up the debate on the future of Turkish politics in terms of polarization and transformation with a special reference to the Gezi Park protests, the December 17-25 judicial coup attempt, the July 15 Coup attempt and April 16 Referendum.
Dersin Yöntem ve Teknikleri
Ön Koşulları Yok
Dersin Koordinatörü Yok
Dersi Verenler Prof.Dr. Burhanettin Duran
Dersin Yardımcıları Yok
Dersin Staj Durumu Yok

Ders Kaynakları
Kaynaklar AK Party Years in Turkey, Domestic and Foreign Policy
Course Requirements and Grading:

There are three main requirements for the course:

1-Class Presentation and Response Papers (% 40). During the semester, students will make presentations depending on the size of the class. Students will be asked to present and lead an oral discussion based on the main analytical problems of that week’s reading assignments. They are also expected to write a response paper on their presentation article(s) and deliver it at the end of the session. The paper is to be between 2 to 3 pages in length that analyze the reading, identifies and reconstructs the author’s theses, causalities and fundamental problematics.

2-Research paper (40%). Students will write a research paper (approximately ten-thirteen pages) on topics addressed in the course and approved by the instructor. It would be wise to choose a topic related to your class presentation. Students should submit their research papers in the final exam period. Term papers should be printed in letter-sized paper, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins all around, using a size 12 standard font such as Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman. Please consult with me during the semester to decide about the paper topic.

3-Attendance and Class Participation (% 20): Class participation includes regular attendance to the sessions and contribution to the discussions on readings in class. Students are also expected to complete the assigned readings before each class and come ready to raise questions and to participate in class discussions.

Academic Honesty

Plagiarism in written work for this class is unacceptable. Plagiarism means taking the written ideas of someone else and presenting them in your writing as if they were your ideas, without giving the author credit. It will lead to an F in the course and disciplinary punishment. Submitting your own work in identical forms to different instructors for credit is not permissible.
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Weekly Response Papers
1 Final Ödevi

Ders Yapısı
Matematik ve Temel Bilimler %0
Mühendislik Bilimleri %0
Mühendislik Tasarımı %0
Sosyal Bilimler %100
Eğitim Bilimleri %0
Fen Bilimleri %0
Sağlık Bilimleri %0
Alan Bilgisi %0

Planlanan Öğrenme Aktiviteleri ve Metodları
Etkinlikler ayrıntılı olarak "Değerlendirme" ve "İş Yükü Hesaplaması" bölümlerinde verilmiştir.

Değerlendirme Ölçütleri
Yarıyıl Çalışmaları Sayısı Katkı
Ödev 5 % 40
Devam 14 % 20
Proje 1 % 40
Toplam :
20
% 100

 
AKTS Hesaplama İçeriği
Etkinlik Sayısı Süre Toplam İş Yükü (Saat)
Ders Süresi 14 3 42
Sınıf Dışı Ç. Süresi 14 3 42
Ödevler 5 10 50
Sunum/Seminer Hazırlama 14 1 14
Ara Sınavlar 5 15 75
Yarıyıl Sonu Sınavı 1 10 10
Toplam İş Yükü   AKTS Kredisi : 8 233

Dersin Öğrenme Çıktıları: Bu dersin başarılı bir şekilde tamamlanmasıyla öğrenciler şunları yapabileceklerdir:
Sıra NoAçıklama
1 Gain detailed knowledge of the major political developments, issues and debates in contemporary Turkish politics since the 1980s.
2 Critical understanding of different approaches and perspectives on Turkish politics and its issues
3 Ability to discuss the academic literature on contemporary Turkish politics.
4 Ability to analyze and understand the features, transformation, main issues and problems of Turkish politics, ranging from political parties and leaders to the Kurdish question and Alevi issue.


Ders Konuları
HaftaKonuÖn HazırlıkDökümanlar
1 Week 1 A General Introduction Main parameters of Turkish political system: change and continuity, center-periphery relations, securitization, historical legacy. *Feroz Ahmad, The Making of Modern Turkey, (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 1-148. *Şerif Mardin, “Center-Periphery Relations: A Key to Turkish Politics?,” Daedalus, no. 102 (1973), pp. 169–90.
2 Week 2-3 A Brief History from 1980 to the 2000s Restoration of the political system, 12 September 1980 military intervention, the 1982 Constitution and the new political structure, Özal period, neo-liberal economic policies, 1990s: the coalitions and economic crises; 2002 elections and the AK Party period. *Erich von Zurcher, “The Third Republic: Turkey since 1980,” in Turkey: A Modern History (London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003, 3rd edition), pp. 278-337. *Feroz Ahmad, The Quest for Identity (Oxford: Oneworld, 2003), pp. 149-184. **Kerem Öktem, Angry Nation: Turkey Since 1989 (London: Zed Books, 2011), pp. 56-189. **Ergun Özbudun, Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation (Boulder, London: Lynne Reinner, 2000), pp. 49-71. **Ergun Özbudun, “The Basic Characteristics of the 1982 Constitution,” in the Constitutional System of Turkey: 1876 to the Present (New York: Palgrave, 2011), pp. 19-37.
3 Week 2-3 A Brief History from 1980 to the 2000s Restoration of the political system, 12 September 1980 military intervention, the 1982 Constitution and the new political structure, Özal period, neo-liberal economic policies, 1990s: the coalitions and economic crises; 2002 elections and the AK Party period. *Erich von Zurcher, “The Third Republic: Turkey since 1980,” in Turkey: A Modern History (London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003, 3rd edition), pp. 278-337. *Feroz Ahmad, The Quest for Identity (Oxford: Oneworld, 2003), pp. 149-184. **Kerem Öktem, Angry Nation: Turkey Since 1989 (London: Zed Books, 2011), pp. 56-189. **Ergun Özbudun, Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation (Boulder, London: Lynne Reinner, 2000), pp. 49-71. **Ergun Özbudun, “The Basic Characteristics of the 1982 Constitution,” in the Constitutional System of Turkey: 1876 to the Present (New York: Palgrave, 2011), pp. 19-37.
4 Week 4-5 Political Parties: The RPP, NAP and AK Party *Derya Kömürcü and Gökhan Demir, “Nationalist Action Party and the Politics of Dissent,” Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, vol.5, no.8, (2014), pp. 552-557. *Hakan Mehmet Kiris¸, “The CHP: From the Single Party to the Permanent Main Opposition Party,” Turkish Studies, vol. 13, no. 3 (2012), pp. 397-413. *Burhanettin Duran, “The Justice and Development Party’s ‘New Politics’: Steering Toward Conservative Democracy, a Revised Islamic Agenda or Management of New Crises?,” in Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of the Justice and Development Party, Ümit Cizre (eds), (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 80–106. *Burhanettin Duran, “The Codes of the AK Party’s Ideological Transformation”, in AK Party Years in Turkey Domestic and Foreign Policy, Burhanettin Duran, Kılıç Buğra Kanat (eds), (İstanbul: SETA, 2020), pp. 7-42.
5 Week 4-5 Political Parties: The RPP, NAP and AK Party *Derya Kömürcü and Gökhan Demir, “Nationalist Action Party and the Politics of Dissent,” Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, vol.5, no.8, (2014), pp. 552-557. *Hakan Mehmet Kiris¸, “The CHP: From the Single Party to the Permanent Main Opposition Party,” Turkish Studies, vol. 13, no. 3 (2012), pp. 397-413. *Burhanettin Duran, “The Justice and Development Party’s ‘New Politics’: Steering Toward Conservative Democracy, a Revised Islamic Agenda or Management of New Crises?,” in Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of the Justice and Development Party, Ümit Cizre (eds), (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 80–106. *Burhanettin Duran, “The Codes of the AK Party’s Ideological Transformation”, in AK Party Years in Turkey Domestic and Foreign Policy, Burhanettin Duran, Kılıç Buğra Kanat (eds), (İstanbul: SETA, 2020), pp. 7-42.
6 Week 6-7 Political Leaders Turgut Özal, Necmettin Erbakan, Bülent Ecevit, Süleyman Demirel, R. Tayyip Erdoğan *Yeşim Arat, “Süleyman Demirel: National Will and Beyond,” in Political Leaders and Democracy in Turkey, Metin Heper and Sabri Sayari (eds), (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002), pp. 87-106. *Feride Acar, “Turgut Özal: Pious Agent of Liberal Transformation,” in Political Leaders and Democracy in Turkey, Metin Heper and Sabri Sayari (eds), (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002), pp. 163-180. *Atilla Yayla, “Turkey's Leaders - Erbakan's Goals,” Middle East Quarterly, (1997), pp. 19-25. *Frank Tachau, “Bülent Ecevit: From Idealist to Pragmatist,” in Political Leaders and Democracy in Turkey, Metin Heper and Sabri Sayari (eds), (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002), pp. 107-126. *Metin Heper and Şule Toktaş, “Islam, Modernity, and Democracy in Contemporary Turkey: The Case of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,” The Muslim World, vol. 93, no. 2 (April 2003), pp. 157–185.
7 Week 6-7 Political Leaders Turgut Özal, Necmettin Erbakan, Bülent Ecevit, Süleyman Demirel, R. Tayyip Erdoğan *Yeşim Arat, “Süleyman Demirel: National Will and Beyond,” in Political Leaders and Democracy in Turkey, Metin Heper and Sabri Sayari (eds), (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002), pp. 87-106. *Feride Acar, “Turgut Özal: Pious Agent of Liberal Transformation,” in Political Leaders and Democracy in Turkey, Metin Heper and Sabri Sayari (eds), (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002), pp. 163-180. *Atilla Yayla, “Turkey's Leaders - Erbakan's Goals,” Middle East Quarterly, (1997), pp. 19-25. *Frank Tachau, “Bülent Ecevit: From Idealist to Pragmatist,” in Political Leaders and Democracy in Turkey, Metin Heper and Sabri Sayari (eds), (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002), pp. 107-126. *Metin Heper and Şule Toktaş, “Islam, Modernity, and Democracy in Contemporary Turkey: The Case of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,” The Muslim World, vol. 93, no. 2 (April 2003), pp. 157–185.
8 Week 8 Civil-Military Relations and Crisis of Kemalism The February 28 process, the 27 April e-memorandum and prospects. *Ümit Cizre & Menderes Çınar, “Turkey 2003: Kemalism, Islamism and Politics in the Light of the February 28 Process,” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 102, no. 2/3 (2003), pp. 309-332. *Reşat Kasaba, “Kemalist Certainities and Modern Ambiguities,” in Rethinking Modernity and National Identity, Sibel Bozdoğan and Reşat Kasaba (eds), (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997), 15-36. **Ümit Cizre, “The Turkish Military,” in Turkey in the Modern World (The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 4), Reşat Kasaba (eds), (Cambridge: Cambrige University Press, 2008). **Mehmet Ali Birand, The Generals’ Coup in Turkey: An Inside Story of 12 September 1980 (London: Brassey’s Defence Publishers, 1987). **Esra Özyürek, Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006). **Ümit Cizre, “Anatomy of the Military’s Political Autonomy,” Comparative Politics, vol. 29, no. 2 (1997), pp. 151–66.?
9 Week 9 EU and Democratization *Ali Resul Usul, Democracy in Turkey: The Impact of EU Political Conditionality (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 143-169. *Gözde Yılmaz, “From Europeanization to De-Europeanization: The Europeanization Process of Turkey in 1999–2014,” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, vol. 24, no.1 (2016), pp. 86-100. **William Hale, “Human Rights and Turkey’s EU Accession Process: Internal and External Dynamics, 2005-2010,” South European Society and Politics, vol. 16, no. 2 (2011), pp. 323-333. **Nathalie Tocci, “Europeanization in Turkey: Trigger or Anchor for Reform?,” South European Society and Politics vol. 10, no. 1 (2005), pp. 71–81. **Ioannis N. Grigoiadis, Trials of Europeanization: Turkish Political Culture and the European Union (New York: Palgrave, 2009). **Ergun Özbudun and Ömer F. Gençkaya, Democratization and the Politics of Constitution-Making in Turkey (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2009).
10 Week 10 Different Aspects of Islamism in Turkey *Şerif Mardin, “Turkish Islamic Exceptionalism Yesterday and Today: Continuity, Rupture and Reconstruction in Operational Codes,” Turkish Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, (2005), pp. 145–65. *Filiz Başkan, “The Rising Islamic Business Elite and Democratization in Turkey,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, vol. 12, no. 4 (2010), pp. 399-416. *Burhanettin Duran, “The Experience of Turkish Islamism: Between Transformation and Impoverishment,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, vol. 12, no. 1 (March 2010), pp. 5-22. *Menderes Çınar and Burhanettin Duran, “The ‘Specific’ Evolution of Contemporary Political Islam in Turkey and Its ‘Difference’” in Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of The Justice and Development Party Ümit Cizre (eds), (London: Routledge, 2008).
11 Week 11 The Kurdish Question and Alevi Identity Politicization of Kurdish and Alevi Identity in Turkey, the PKK and the Resolution Process *Talha Köse, “Rise and Fall of the AK Party’s Kurdish Peace Initiatives,” Insight Turkey, vol. 19, no. 2, (2017), pp. 89-115. *M. Hakan Yavuz and Nihat Ali Özcan, “Turkish Democracy and the Kurdish Question,” Middle East Policy, vol. 22, no. 4, (2015), pp. 73–87 *Talha Köse, “Between Nationalism, Modernism and Secularism: The Ambivalent Place of ‘Alevi Identities,” Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 49, no. 4 (2013), pp. 590-607. **Hüseyin Alptekin and Talha Köse, “The AK Party’s Kurdish Policy”, in AK Party Years in Turkey Domestic and Foreign Policy, Burhanettin Duran, Kılıç Buğra Kanat (eds), (İstanbul: SETA, 2020), pp. 85-114. **Joost Jongerden and Ahmed Hamdi Akkaya, “Born from the Left: the making of the PKK,” in Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey: Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue, Marlies Casier and Joost Jongerden (eds), (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 123-142
12 Week 12 Transformation and Crisis in Turkish Foreign Policy AK Party period: multidimensional foreign policy, after the Arap Spring; Turkey in a troubled region. *Malik Müftü, “Turkey’s Choice,” Insight Turkey, vol.19, no.1, (2017), pp. 71-87. *Murat Yeşiltaş, “The New Era in Turkish Foreign Policy: Critiques and Challenges,” Insight Turkey, vol.16, no.3, (2014), pp.25-36. *Kılıç Buğra Kanat, “Theorizing the Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy,” Insight Turkey, vol.16, no.1, (2014), pp. 65-84. **Burhanettin Duran, “JDP and Foreign Policy As An Agent of Transformation,” in Emergence of a New Turkey: Islam, Democracy and the AK Party, M. Hakan Yavuz (eds), (Utah: The University of Utah Press, 2006). **Kılıç Buğra Kanat, “Turkish-American Relations During the AK Party Governments”, in AK Party Years in Turkey Domestic and Foreign Policy, Burhanettin Duran, Kılıç Buğra Kanat (eds), (İstanbul: SETA, 2020), pp. 263-286.
13 Week 13 Turbulent Years (2013-2017): The Gezi Park protests, the December 17-25 Judicial Coup Attempt and the July 15 Coup Attempt. *Hatem Ete, “The Political Reverberations of the Gezi Protests,” Insight Turkey, vol. 15, no. 3 (2013), 15-25. *Burhanettin Duran and Fahrettin Altun, The Triumph of Turkish Democracy: The July 15 Coup Attempt and Its Aftermath (İstanbul: SETA, 2016), pp. 26-28, 53-57, 63-74, 132-135, 154-163. *Nebi Miş, “Measuring Social Perception of the July 15 Coup Attempt,” in July 15 Coup Attempt in Turkey: Context, Causes, and Consequences, Muhittin Ataman (eds), (İstanbul: SETA, 2017), pp. 103-147. *Şener Aktürk, “Turkey’s Civil Rights Movement and The Reactionary Coup: Segregation, Emancipation, and the Western Reaction,” in July 15 Coup Attempt in Turkey: Context, Causes, and Consequences, Muhittin Ataman (eds), (İstanbul: SETA, 2017), pp. 67-103. **Nebi Miş, “The July 15 Coup Attempt’s Effects on Turkish Politics”, in AK Party Years in Turkey Domestic and Foreign Policy, Burhanettin Duran, Kılıç Buğra Kanat (eds), (İstanbul: SETA, 2020), pp. 149-184.
14 Week 14 The April 16 Referendum and transition to the Presidential System *Nebi Miş and Burhanettin Duran, Turkey’s Presidential System: Model and Practices (SETA: İstanbul, 2018), pp. 14-141. *Kılıç Buğra Kanat, Jackson Hannon and Meggan Baker, Turkey’s Elections 2018, SETA Report, (SETA: İstanbul, 2018). **Fahrettin Altun, “Laying the Cornerstone for a New Turkey: The June 24 Elections”, Insight Turkey, vol. 20, no. 3, (Summer 2018), pp. 89-102. **Serdar Gülener, “The Constitutional Amendment Draft: The End of Debates on Change in the Turkish Political System?,” Insight Turkey, vol. 18, no. 4 (2016), pp. 109-125. ** S. Erdem Aytaç, Ali Çarkoğlu and Kerem Yıldırım, “Taking Sides: Determinants of Support for a Presidential System in Turkey”, South European Society and Politics, vol. 22., no. 1 (2017), pp.1-20.


Dersin Program Çıktılarına Katkısı
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Katkı Düzeyi: 1: Çok Düşük 2: Düşük 3: Orta 4: Yüksek 5: Çok Yüksek


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