UNI 202-B FORMATIONS OF MODERN TURKEY II. Tuesday , Thursday West Campus, #KS02

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1 İstanbul Şehir University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Political Science and International Relations Spring Semester UNI 202-B FORMATIONS OF MODERN TURKEY II Tuesday , Thursday West Campus, #KS02 instructor: Hüseyin Alptekin office hours: Thursday and/or by appointment office location: South Campus # 319 Course Description: This course is intended to teach, discuss, and go through an overview of Turkish political history since The course is not only structured chronologically but also around certain core themes of the past seven decades. Such themes include democracy, the military, political economy, Turkish foreign policy, the Cyprus dispute, Turkey-EU relations, secularism, political Islam, and the Kurdish question. The course aims at providing a profound understanding of the major political issues, actors, and processes of the specified era. Students are expected to have a good grasp of both the continuities and ruptures of Turkish political history discussed in this class by the end of the semester. Course readings Erik Zurcher, A Modern History of Turkey. Tauris Feroz Ahmad, The Turkish Experiment in Democracy: C. Hurst & Company. Metin Heper and Jacob M. Landau (eds.), Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey, Tauris. See the tentative course plan for other assigned readings. Grading The final grade assigned for the course should reflect the student s overall performance in the course, as described by the following guidelines: A excellent work, complete mastery of course material B good work, grasps most of the important concepts C average work, grasps many but not all aspects of course material D poor work, insufficient understanding of material F failing The assignment of letter grades is as follows: A+ = B+ = C+ = D+ = F = < 60 A = B = C = D = No curves A- = B- = C- = D- = I reserve the right to change the assignment of letter grades. 1

2 Students are required to do all assigned course readings and attend course meetings. You need to keep up with the readings, attend class, and pay attention to lecture and class discussions in order to do well on the exams. Grading is based upon two equally-weighted exams (a midterm exam and a final exam, each making up 30% of your final course grade), four pop-up quizzes (each making up 5% of your final course grade), attendance (10%) and in-class participation (10%). Academic Honesty Plagiarism is absolutely not tolerated. If you are not absolutely clear on what constitutes plagiarism, contact University Writing Center or me for a detailed explanation. Students should be aware that there are severe consequences for violations of academic integrity such as cheating or plagiarism (turning in work that is not your own, without proper credit to the original author). Students who are found to have cheated or committed plagiarism will face disciplinary action under the İstanbul Şehir University Instruction for Ethics Committees 1. Students suspected of cheating and/or plagiarism will be subject to university policies, procedures and sanctions as described in the İstanbul ŞEHIR University Instruction for Ethics Committees found under Bylaws and Instructions - Instructions. Consequences of it may include any of the following: No letter of recommendation, failing the assignment, failing the class, warning, probation, suspension, and expulsion. As an instructor, I will penalize any student guilty of plagiarism with an F for that assignment (ZERO GRADE), and a 10-point deduction on the final semester grade. Depending on the nature of the violation, I may also refer the instance of plagiarism to the Director of Student Affairs for possible suspension from the University. Missed Exam Policy: If you miss an exam because of illness, submit a doctor's note within 5 calendar days and you will be given a make-up opportunity. If you need to miss an exam for other professional or school-related commitment, bring documentation and make arrangements with the professor at least 14 days in advance. Make up exams may not be in the format of the in-class exams. Laptops and Cellphones: Laptops and cellphones are not allowed in class because they are a source of distraction. If you must use your computer or phone, please step out of the lecture hall. Students with Disabilities: If you have a documented disability and anticipate needing accommodations in this course, please make arrangements to meet with me. 1 İstanbul ŞEHIR University Instruction for Ethics Committees: uctionforethicscommittees.pdf 2

3 Tentative Course Plan Week 1 (Feb. 17 th & 19 th ) Introduction and Turkish state in perspective Şerif Mardin, Center-Periphery Relations: A Key to Turkish Politics? Daedalus, 102(1): Metin Heper, The Strong State as a Problem for the Consolidation of Democracy: Turkey and Germany Compared, Comparative Political Studies 25(2): Week 2 (Feb. 24 th & 26 th ) Transition to democracy and the breakdown, Feroz Ahmad. The Turkish Experiment in Democracy: , chs.1&5, pp and Eric Zurcher, A Modern History of Turkey, ch.13 The Rule of Democratic Party, , pp Ali Yasar Sanbay, The Democratic Party, In Metin Heper and Jacob M.Landau (eds.). Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey. Tauris. Ch.8, pp Week 3 (Mar. 3 rd & 5 th ) Years in turmoil, Eric Zurcher. A Modern History of Turkey, ch.13 The Second Turkish Republic, , pp Frank Tachau, The Republican People's Party, Heper and M.Landau (eds.). Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey. Tauris. Ch.7, pp Avner Levi, The Justice Party, Heper and M.Landau (eds.). Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey. Tauris. Ch.9, pp Week 4 (Mar. 10 th & 12 th ) Turkish foreign policy and the Cyprus issue Feroz Ahmad. The Turkish Experiment in Democracy. Ch.14 Foreign Policy. pp Tozun Bahcheli, "Cyprus 1974: Turkey s Military Success Followed by Political Stalemate." Mediterranean Quarterly 25(1): Sinem A. Acikmese and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, "The NATO EU Turkey trilogy: the impact of the Cyprus conundrum." Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 12(4): Week 5 (Mar. 17th & 19th) The coup d'états George S. Harris, 2011 "Military Coups and Turkish Democracy, " Turkish Studies 12(2): Metin Heper, Civil Military Relations in Turkey: Towards a Liberal Model? Turkish Studies 12(2): Ahmet Kuru, The Rise and Fall of Military Tutelage in Turkey Insight Turkey 14(2): Umit Cizre Sakallioglu, The Anatomy of the Turkish Military s Political Autonomy Comparative Politics 29(2)

4 Week 6 (Mar. 24 th & 26 th ) The neoliberal rise, Eric Zurcher. A Modern History of Turkey, ch.13 The Third Turkish Republic, Turkey since 1980, pp Ustun Erguder, The Motherland Party, Metin Heper and Jacob M.Landau (eds.). Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey. Tauris. Ch.10, pp Week 7 (Mar. 31 st & Apr. 2 nd ) The origins of political Islam in Turkey Feroz Ahmad. The Turkish Experiment in Democracy. Ch.13 Religion and politics. pp Feroz Ahmad, Politics and Islam in Modern Turkey, in From Empire to Republic, Istanbul Bilgi University Press, pp (also available in Middle Eastern Studies, 27(1), January 1991) Ahmet Kuru, "Passive and assertive secularism: Historical conditions, ideological struggles, and state policies toward religion." World Politics 59(4): Week 8 (Apr. 7 th & 9 th ) The rise of political Islam in Turkey Muzaffer Ercan Yilmaz, "The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey: The Case of the Welfare Party." Turkish Studies 13(3): Banu Elgur, The Soft Intervention of 1997 and the Islamist Social Movement, Cambridge University Press. pp MIDTERM (April 9 th ) Week 9 (Apr. 14 th & 16 th ) The Justice and Development Party years, 2002-present Ali Carkoglu, Economic evaluations vs. ideology: Diagnosing the sources of electoral change in Turkey, , Electoral Politics, 31: Ersin Kalaycioglu, Justice and Development Party at the Helm: Resurgence of Islam or Restitution of the Right-of-Center Predominant Party? Turkish Studies 11(1): Mustafa Sen, Transformation of Turkish Islamism and the Rise of the Justice and Development Party Turkish Studies 11(1): Week 10 (Apr. 21 st & 23 rd ) Spring Break! Week 11 (Apr. 28 th & 30 th ) Changes in the role of the military Metin Heper, Civil Military Relations in Turkey: Towards a Liberal Model? Turkish Studies 12(2): Ahmet Kuru, The Rise and Fall of Military Tutelage in Turkey Insight Turkey 14(2): Umit Cizre Sakallioglu, The Anatomy of the Turkish Military s Political Autonomy Comparative Politics 29(2):

5 Week 12 (May 5 th & 7 th ) Turkish foreign policy, 2002-present Hasan Basri Yalçın, "The Concept of Middle Power and the Recent Turkish Foreign Policy Activism." Afro Eurasian Studies 1. Ziya Öniş and Şuhnaz Yilmaz, "Between Europeanization and Euro asianism: Foreign policy activism in Turkey during the AKP era," Turkish Studies 10(1): Bülent Aras, "The Davutoğlu era in Turkish foreign policy," Insight Turkey 11(3): Ömer Taşpınar, "Turkey's Strategic Vision and Syria." The Washington Quarterly 35(3): Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, The Turkish EU Odyssey and Political Regime Change in Turkey, South European Society & Politics, 16(2): Week 13 (May 12 th & 14 th ) Turkish political economy Ziya Öniş, "Crises and transformations in Turkish political economy." Turkish Policy Quarterly 9(3): Ziya Öniş, "The triumph of conservative globalism: the political economy of the AKP era." Turkish Studies 13(2): Nilgun Onder, "The Turkish project of globalization and new regionalism." Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations 7(2): Ozlem A. Arconian, "Turkey's graduation from the International Monetary Fund." Middle East Policy 20(2): Week 14 (May 19 th & 21 st ) The Kurdish question, 2002-present Huseyin Alptekin, "Ethnic incorporation policies and peripheral reactions: How are Turkey s Kurds treated by the state and how do they perceive their treatment," Afro Eurasian Studies 1(2): Zeki Sarigil and Omer Fazlioglu "Religion and ethno nationalism: Turkey's Kurdish issue," Nations and Nationalism 19(3): Michael Gunter, "Reopening Turkey's closed Kurdish opening?" Middle East Policy 20(2): Week 15 (May 26 th & 28 th ) Other identity issues in Turkish political history and conclusion Talha Köse, 2010 "Alevi opening and the democratization initiative in Turkey," SETAV. Talha Köse, "Ideological or religious? Contending visions on the future of Alevi identity." Identities 19(5): Suat Kolukirik and Şule Toktaş, "Turkey's Roma: Political participation and organization," Middle Eastern Studies 43(5): Cagla Diner and Şule Toktaş, "Waves of feminism in Turkey: Kemalist, Islamist and Kurdish women's movements in an era of globalization." Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 12(1):