Modern Turkiye – Politics, History, and Culture

The course will be completed with a written exam. It will also be possible for student to make short presentation in class—depending on the number of students attending—that will be taken into account for the final grade.

Analytic reading list for each Lesson: 1. Zürcher, Erik J. (2017). Turkey-A Modern History. I. B. Tauris & Company. Chapter 9. 2. Zürcher, Erik J. (2017). Turkey-A Modern History. I. B. Tauris & Company. Chapter 10-11. 3a. Halide Edib. (1930). Turkey Faces West. Yale University Press. Chapter: Nationalism vs. Democracy: 75-95. 3b. Emre Bağce, H. (2015). Dilemmas of Democratızation in Turkey wıth special Reference to “Modernısatıon from Above”. İnsan&İnsan. Sayı 3, Kış: 4-17. 4a. Sayari. S. (2010). Political Violence and Terrorism in Turkey, 1976-80: A Retrospective Analysis. Terrorism and Political Violence. 22(2): 198-215. 4b. CIA (1979). Turkey: A Troubled Future. CIA. 5a. Aarbakke, V. (2021). The 1989 Exodus of Bulgarian Turks Revisited. Balkan Studies 54: 219-242. 5b. Helsinki Watch (1987, September). Destroying Ethnic Identity. The Turks of Bulgaria. An update. 6a. Heraclides, A. (2011, October). The Essence of the Greek-Turkish Rivalry: National Narrative and Identity. GreeSE Paper No.51. Hellenic Observatory Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe. 6b. Tsarohas, D. (2009). The political economy of Greek-Turkish relations. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 9/1. 7a. Akkoyunlu, K. and Öktem, K. (2016). Existensial Insecurity and the Making of a Weak Authoritarian Regime in Turkey. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 16:4: 505-527. 7b. Zürcher E-J (2016 - 10 May) Enough is enough – the medal will be returned. Leiden. 8a. Akin Ünver, H. (2009, April). “Turkey’s “Deep State” and the Ergenekon Conundrum. The Middle East Institute Policy Brief. No. 23. 8b. Grigoriadis, I.N. and Özer, I. (2010). Mutations of Turkish Nationalism: from Neo-nationalism to the Ergenekon affair. Middle east Policy, Vol. XVii, no. 4, Winter. 9a. White. J. (2017). Spindle Autocracy in the New Turkey. The Brown Journal of World Affairs. XXIV(I). 9b. Kesgin. B. (2019): Turkey’s Erdoğan: leadership style and foreign policy audiences. Turkish Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2019.1575735 10a. Kuşku-Sönmez, E. (2019). Dynamics of change in Turkish foreign policy: evidence from high-level meetings of the AKP government. Turkish Studies. 20:3, 377-402, DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2018.1495078 10b. Kirişci, K. (2012). Turkey's Engagement with Its Neighborhood: A “Synthetic” and Multidimensional Look at Turkey's Foreign Policy Transformation. Turkish Studies. 13:3, 319-341, DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2012.717444 11a. Yavuz, M.H. (2019). Understanding Turkish secularism in the 21th century: a contextual roadmap. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 19:1, 55-78, DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2019.1576367 11b. Öztürk, A. E. (2019). An alternative reading of religion and authoritarianism: the new logic between religion and state in the AKP’s New Turkey. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 19:1, 79-98, DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2019.1576370 11c. Yavuz, M.H. & Öztürk, A.E. (2019). Turkish secularism and Islam under the reign of Erdoğan. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 19:1, 1-9, DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2019.1580828 12a. Bechev. D. (2022). Turkey Under Erdogan. Yale University Press. Chapter 10. Europe: From Partnership to Rivalry? 12b. Burak Bilgehan Özpek & Nebahat Tanriverdi Yaşar (2018) Populism and foreign policy in Turkey under the AKP rule. Turkish Studies. 19:2, 198-216, DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2017.1400912

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