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Course Name	Turkish	Modern Türkiye'nin Oluşumu - Kadir Kon
	English	Formation of Modern Turkey
Course Code	ITB 208	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Kadir Kon Hasan Karataş
Course Objectives		1. To gain an understanding of the interrelatedness of the diverse economic, political, and sociological factors that have shaped the modern history of Turkey. 2. To develop a critical perspective on the major sociological and historical forces at work in the Turkish modernization experience. 3. To familiarize students with the reading of historical source texts.
Course Description		Selim III and the New Order, Reforms of Mahmud II, The Tanzimat Reform Period, The Hamidian Period, The Young Turk Movement, The Balkan Wars and World War I, The Intellectual Formation of Turkish Nationalism: Yusuf Akçura and Ziya Gökalp, Turkish War of Independence, Opposition and Centralizaiton of Power, The Formation of Kemalizm: Secularism and Nationalism, Transition to Democracy, The 1960, 1971, and 1980 Military Interventions, A Contested Democracy, Economy and Society in Turkey: 1960-1980.
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