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POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENTS IN TURKEY COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
POL428 POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENTS IN TURKEY 5 3 3 5

Objectives and Contents

Objectives: The aim of the course is to make students interpret the movements of ideas, ideological breaks and approaches that have shaped the political processes until the last periods of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Turkish Republic, on a historical and theoretical level.
Content: The content of the course covers the factors that shaped the pre-modern classical Turkish political thought, the intellectual movements that emerged in the modernization period, their ideological effects, their ruptures, the intellectual movements before the Republic, the struggles for power, and the intellectual movements that shaped the foundation of the Republic and affected the political life in the following years.