M?NA2503 - Modern Turkey: Politics, Cultures, People
Syllabus
Week 1: 29 August
Introduction to the course
“Introduction” in Carter V Findley Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity : a history, 1789-2007 New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, 2010, 1-22.
In class: watch The Incredible Turk (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjySoi2PR0w
Discuss: Turkey is a bridge between East and West.
Week 2: 5 September
Ottoman Reform
Carter V Findley Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity: a history, 1789-2007 New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 2010, pp. 23-132.
Week 3: 12 September
Abdülhamid II and the Young Turks
Carter V Findley Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity : a history, 1789-2007 New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, 2010, 133-191.
Makdisi, Ussama. 2002. "Ottoman Orientalism." The American Historical Review 107 (3): 768-796.
Hasan Kayal?, “The Young Turks and the Committee of Union and Progress,” pp. 26-34, in Metin Heper and Sabri Sayar?, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey (London, New York: Routledge, 2012).
Assignment: Reflection paper on Makdisi's article Ottoman Orientalism.
Week 4: 19 September
Dissolution of the Empire, Genocide and the War of Independence
Carter V Findley Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity: a history, 1789-2007 New Haven, CT & London : Yale University Press, 2010, 192-246.
Aksakal, Mustafa. "Not ‘by those old books of international law, but only by war’: Ottoman Intellectuals on the Eve of the Great War." Diplomacy & Statecraft 15, no. 3 (2004): 507-44.
Ak?am, Taner. A Shameful Act. The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. London: Constable, 2006. Preface, ix-xxiii
Dadrian, Vahakn D. 1997. “The Turkish Military Tribunal’s Prosecution of the Authors of the Armenian Genocide: Four Major Court-Martial Series.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 11(1): 28–59.
Optional:
Einar Wigen ‘,”Landsmann, snakk tyrkisk!” – om tyrkere, Tyrkia-boere og s?kalte landsmenn” [Citizen, Speak Turkish! On Turks, Turkey-residents and so-called citizens] Babylon: Nordic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 9 No. 2 (2011): 36-47.
Week 5: 26 September
The Kemalist State
Carter V Findley Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity : a history, 1789-2007 New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, 2010, 247-304.
Taha Parla & Andrew Davison Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey, 143-243.
Task: Watch at home the documentary “Mustafa” (directed by Can Du?ndar, 2008),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p2cl5ZE5NA (in Turkish),
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9B1D0CB0054C030F (with English subtitles)
Week 6: 3 October
From Mono-Party State to Populist Democracy
Carter V Findley Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity : a history, 1789-2007. New Haven, CT & London : Yale University Press, 2010, 305-349.
Kasaba, Re?at. 1993. “Populism and Democracy in Turkey, 1946-1961.” In Rules and Rights in the Middle East, eds. Ellis Goldberg, Re?at Kasaba, and Joel S. Migdal. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 43–68.
Co?, K?van?, and P?nar Bilgin. "Stalin’s Demands: Constructions of the “Soviet Other” in Turkey’s Foreign Policy, 1919–1945." Foreign Policy Analysis 6, no. 1 (2010): 43–60.
Week 7: 10 October
Democracy, coups and stability
Carter V Findley Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity: a history, 1789-2007 New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, 2010, 350-422.
Bilgin, P?nar. "”Only Strong States Can Survive in Turkey’s Geography” The Uses of ’Geopolitical Truths’ in Turkey." Political Geography 26, no. 7 (2007): 740–56.
Week 8: 17 October
Turkish foreign policy
Bülent Aras, “The Davutoglu Era in Turkish Foreign Policy.” Insight Turkey, 11(3). 2009. 127-142
Ahmet Davutoglu, “Turkey’s Zero-Problems Foreign Policy.” Foreign Policy, May 20, 2010.
Gunter, Michael M. 2013. “Iraq, Syria, ISIS and the Kurds: Geostrategic Concerns for the U.S. and Turkey.” Middle East Policy 22(1): 102–11.
Tu?al, Cihan. The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism. 1-32.
Revisit Co? & Bilgin 2010 and Bilgin 2007.
Week 9 (24 October)
Documentary
Assignment: Submit proposal for final paper
Week 10 (31 October)
Political Islam in Turkey
Hakan Yavuz (2002) Islamic Political Identity in Turkey, pp. 4-35
Mardin, ?erif. "Turkish Islamic Exceptionalism Yesterday and Today: Continuity, Rupture and Reconstruction in Operational Codes." Turkish Studies 6, no. 2 (2005): 145-65.
Yavuz, M. Hakan. Toward an Islamic Enlightenment. The Gülen Movement. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013, 47-129.
Assignment: Reflection paper on Mardin's Turkish Islamic Exceptionalism.
Week 11 (7 November):
Turkey under the AK Party
Tu?al, Cihan. The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism. 235-284.
Tezcür, Güne? Murat. 2009. “Judicial Activism in Perilous Times: The Turkish Case.” Law & Society Review 43(2): 305–36.
I?s?z, Asl?. 2014. “Brand Turkey and the Gezi Protests: Authoritarianism in Flux, Law and Neoliberalism.” In The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey: #occupygezi, ed. Umut ?zk?r?ml?. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 25–49.
Optional:
Einar Wigen ‘Tyrkias “demokratiske ?pning” etter den Gezi-protestene’ [Turkey’s “Democratic Opening” after the Gezi Protests] Babylon: Tidsskrift for midt?stenstudier, Vol. 11 No. 2 (2013): 20-33.