ATATURK'S PRINCIPLES AND HISTORY OF TURKISH RENOVATION I
Course Name Code Regular Semester ECTS Credits Credits Lecture 2
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Atatürk's Principles and History of Turkish Renovation 1 9011011 1 2 2 Laboratory (Hour/Week) 0
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Course Objectives
  1. Have students inform on political, economical, social and cultural facts of Republican Turkey. Have them like history and historical texts and look at historical events multi-oriented. Have them meet with basic theoretical concepts, discussions and methods of thought of different social sciences.
Course Outcomes
(The knowledge and the skills that the student will gain at the end of the course)
  1. Have students inform on Atatürk's Principles and Turkish Renovation and create consciousness of history. Connecting general history and personal history. Have students profit by facilities of scientific history to instruct themselves better.
Textbook
  1. Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi I,II YÖK yayını
  2. Ahmet Mumcu,Türk Devriminin Temelleri ve Gelişimi
  3. Suna Kili,Türk Devrimi
  4. Hamza Eroğlu, Türk İnkılap Tarihi
  5. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Nutuk (Söylev)
  6. Ayferi Göze,Siyasal Düşünceler ve Yöntemler
  7. Suna Kili, Atatürk Devrimi: Bir Çağdaşlaşma Modeli
  8. Suna Kili,Türk Devrim Tarihi
  9. Toktamış Ateş, Kemalizmin Özü
  10. Taner Kışlalı, Kemalizm Laiklik ve Demokrasi
  11. Utkan Kocatürk, Atatürk'ün Fikir ve Düşünceleri
  12. Özer Ozankaya, Cumhuriyet Çınarı
  13. Bernard Lewis, Modern Türkiye'nin Doğuşu
  14. Fahir Armaoğlu, Siyasi Tarih
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Midterm Exams 2 60
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Final Exam 1 40
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WEEKLY COURSE PLAN
Week Subject
1 Basic concepts (republic, constitutional government, autocracy, modernism, socialism, liberalism, revolution. Historical characteristics of Turkish Revolution and comparison with other examples.
2 Social and economic structure of Ottoman Empire in 19th and 20th centuries. Reasons of retreat and decline.
3 General scheme of political events in Ottoman in 19th century. Reforms under Selim III. Era, Nizam-ı Cedid, The Mahmut II. Era. Sened-i ittifak, Tanzimat era, The first constitutional period and Kanun-i Esasi. (Constitution)
4 Political events in Ottoman at the beginning of 19th century. The second constitutional period, Union and Progress era, Tripoli War, Balkan Wars, World War 1.
5 Intellectual currents/ Ottomanism /Islamism
6 Mondros Armistice, Internal and external political events during the Armistice period. Armenian problem.
7 General condition before the war of independence. Mondros Armistice. Structure of treaties which had finished the World War 1. and Wilson's Principles.
8 Parts of the war of independence. The first period of political preparation Period of regional resistance.
9 Mid-term exam
10 Organization of the war of independence. Mustafa Kemal's analysis, foresight and plans on domestic and external political conditions.
11 The period of political preparation of the war of independence. Transformation of regional struggle to national struggle, Amasya Circular, Erzurum and Sivas Congresses.
12 Second mid-term exam
13 Military fronts of the war of Independence. Inner revolts. The wars of Inönü 1-2. Sakarya war. The war of commander-in-chief.
14 Political events of the war of independence. London Conference. Mudanya Armistice
15 Lausanne Peace Conference

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