HIST578 THE MAKING OF CONTEMPORARY TURKEY
| Course Code: |
2400578 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
History |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
Course Content
This course will analyse and discuss the economic, political and social history of contemporary Turkey. It begins with the establishment of the mono-party regime during which the state and society was reshaped along with Kemalist principles. It then traces the dissolution of this regime and focuses on the multi-dimensional transformation of Turkey in the aftermath of the World War II. The course continues with the developments shaped by in-migration, industrialization, political pluralism and military interventions in between 1950-1980. It finally deals with identity crisis emerged in the circumstances shaped by the September 12, 1980 coup d’etat and accommodation to neo-liberalism.
