Middle East Technical University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Department of Political Science and Public Administration 2010-2011, Fall Semester ADM 3161. TURKISH POLITICS AND POLITICAL STRUCTURE Lecturer: Assist. Prof. Dr. Canan Aslan-Akman. (Sec. 02) The Objective of the Course This course surveys the developments in the Turkish political system chronologically since the late-1930 until the transition to democracy in the early 1980s. The major objective is to understand the forces of change and continuity in Turkish politics by tracing its turning points in democratization. The reading material focuses on the process of democratization, political party system, state-society relations, role of the military in politics, the evolution of the major political parties, political leaders, and ideological and constitutional developments drawing on various sources. Course Material In addition to the readings to be covered in this course, students are also strongly advised to read the relevant chapters from: Eric von Zurcher. Turkey: A Modern History (London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 1997), and; Feroz Ahmad. The Making of Modern Turkey (London, New York: Routledge, 1993) Students are also required to attend the screening of a documentary on Turkish politics (12 September) every week on the day and time slot to be announced later. Course Requirements: Students are required to attend class sessions and to read the assigned texts of each session beforehand. Evaluation will be based on a mid-term exam, a final exam, a short essay/class presentation, reflection paper, and participation in class. You will choose your essay/presentation topic from the list to be provided. Those students who will make a presentation instead of an essay will present their topic on the week it will be covered in class. Reflection papers to be written by all students are due on the last week of the term. 1
Breakdown of the Grades for the course: mid-term exam 30 per cent class presentation OR essay on selected topics: 10 per cent attendance (class and documentary ) and class participation : 10 per cent (5+5) Reflection paper (due at the end of the term): 10 per cent final exam : 40 per cent No Make-up exams unless in case of serious illness documented by the university medical center. ADM. 3162 COURSE OUTLINE AND THE READINGS I. EARLY REPUBLICAN PERIOD: REFORMS, OPPOSITION AND STATE- SOCIETY DYNAMICS. ( Weeks of 30 september, 7, 14,& 21 October) 1. MARDİN, Şerif. (1973) Center-Periphery Relations: A Key to Turkish Politics? Daedalus, 102(1): 169-90. 2.BERKES, Niyazi. (1964),The Development of Secularism in Turkey, Montreal: McGill University Press, Chapter 16 : The Kemalist Reforms 3. BERKES, N. (1964),The Development of Secularism in Turkey. Chapter 17: The Secularism of the Kemalist Regime 4. KARAL, Enver Ziya (1981) The Principles of Kemalism in E. Ozbudun and A Kazancigil (ed) Ataturk: The Founder of a Modern State. London: c. Hurst and Co. Publishers pp.11-36. 5. AHMAD, Feroz. (1991), The Progressive Republican Party, 1924-1925, in M. Heper and J. Landau (eds.), Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey, London: İ. B. Tauris, pp. 65-82. 6. WEIKER, W. F. (1991), The Free Party, 1930, in M. Heper and J. Landau (eds.), Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey, London: İ. B. Tauris, pp. 83-98. 2
II. THE SINGLE-PARTY REGIME: THE CHP AND THE NATIONAL CHIEF PERIOD ( 28October, 4 November) 7. KARPAT, Kemal (1991) The Republican People s Party, 1923-1945, In : J. Landau and M. Heper (eds) Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey, London: I.B Tauris, pp.42-64. 8. KOÇAK, Cemil. (2001), Tek Parti Yönetimi, Kemalizm ve Şeflik Sistemi: Ebedi Şef / Milli Şef, in A. İnsel (ed.), Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Düşünce, Cilt 2: Kemalizm, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, pp. 119-37. 9. HEPER, Metin (2002) İsmet İnönü: A Rationalist Democrat in M. Heper and S. Sayarı (eds) Political Leaders and Democracy in Turkey. Lexington: New York: Oxford, pp.25-40. III. THE TRANSITION TO MULTI-PARTY POLITICS AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN POWER (1945-1960) (weeks of 11 and 25 november) 10. EROGUL Cem (1987) The Establishment of the Multi -Party Rule,1945-1971, In Irvin C Shick and Ertugrul Ahmet Tonak(eds) Turkey in Transition New Perspectives.. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press 11. SARIBAY, Ali Yasar (1991) The Democratic Party in Turkey, 1946-1960, in J. Landau and M. Heper (eds).political Parties and Democracy in Turkey. 12. KASABA, Resat. (1993). Populism and Democracy in Turkey, 1946-1961 in: E. Goldberg, R. Kasaba and J. Migdal (eds).rules and Rights in the Middle East, Seattle: 13. TACHAU, Frank. (1991) The Republican People s Party, 1945-1980 in Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey, pp. 99-107. IV: FROM THE FIRST MILITARY INTERVENTION TO THE POLITICS OF RADICALISM, (1960-1980). ( weeks of 2,9, 6 & 23 December) a. The Military Intervention of 1960 and the Transition to Democracy 14. AHMAD, Feroz.(1977) The Turkish Experiment in Democracy, (CH 7: The Failure of Tutelary Democracy,1961-1971 pp.185-191 b. Political Parties and Movements 15. LEVİ, Avner (1991) The Justice Party,1961-1980 in Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey,134-151. 3
16 ARAT, Yesim. (2002) Süleyman Demirel : National Will and Beyond in M. Heper and S Sayarı (eds) Political Leaders and Democracy in Turkey. 17 AHMAD, F (1977). Ch.9: The JP and the RPP, 1965-1971, The Turkish Experiment in Democracy. pp.232-265. 18. AHMAD, F (1977), Ch 12: The Emergence of Bülent Ecevit, The Turkish Experiment in Democracy, pp 327-356. 19. TACHAU, Frank.(1991) The Republican People s Party, 1945-1980 in : Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey, pp 107-115 (same as Reading 15) 20. TOPRAK Binnaz (1987). The Religious Right in I.C Shick and E.A. Tonak (eds) Turkey in Transition. pp.218-35 21 AĞAOĞULLARI, M. Ali. (1987), The Ultra-Nationalist Right, in I. C. Shick and E. A. Tonak (eds.), Turkey in Transition: New Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 177-217. 22. BELGE, Murat. (1987), The Left I. C. Shick and E. A. Tonak (eds.), Turkey in Transition New Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 147-76. c. Polarization and Instability: Towards the 1980s 23. KARPAT, Kemal. (1988), Military Interventions: Army-Civilian Relations in Turkey before and after 1980, in M. Heper & A. Evin, State, Democracy and the Military in Turkey in the 1980s, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 137-58. V. THE POST-1980 RE-CONSTRUCTION OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM (30 December and 6 January) 24 TURAN, İlter (1988) Political Parties and the Party System in Post-1983 Turkey, in: M. Heper and A. Evin (eds) State, Democracy and the Military: Turkey in the 1980s. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. pp.63-80. 25. ERGÜDER, Ü. (1991), The Motherland Party, 1983-1989, in M. Heper and J. Landau (eds.), Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey, London: İ. B. Tauris, 152-69. 26. AKGÜN, BİROL. Aspects of Party System Development in Turkey Turkish Studies, 2:1, Spring 2001.p. 71-92 27. GÖLE, Nilufer. (1997), Secularism and Islamism in Turkey: The Making of Elites and Counter-Elites, The Middle East Journal, Vol. 51, pp. 46-58. 4
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