Course Descriptions

The founding dynamics of the Republic. Economic policy between statism and liberalism. The debates on Kemalism as an ideology. Kadro movement. New generation of Republican intellectuals. Second World War and Turkey. Integration to the Post-war World order. The Cold War and Turkey. Democratic Party. The 27 May Military Intervention and the constitution of 1961. 1960s new cultural and political dynamics. 12 March Military Intervention. Cyprus as an international question and the formation of European Union. The 1970s and political polarization. The 1980 military intervention and the 1982 Constitution. Özal governments. Social transformation in Turkey from 1980s to 1990s.