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| TRH5840 | History of Turkish Democracy | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of HISTORY | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Mehmet OKUR | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Uğur ÜÇÜNCÜ | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | In this course is explained to basic concepts related democracy, constitutional advances and democratization process. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Students will learn the basic concepts of democracy and have general knowledge about democratic developments in the world. | 1,2 | 1, | | PO - 2 : | Students will have knowledge about the process of participation in the governance of the governed and administrative and legal arrangements in this process from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. | 1,2 | 1, | | PO - 3 : | Students will be able to use the theoretical knowledge that they learned during lesson, their research and can make their own comments on the topic. | 1,2 | 1, | | PO - 4 : | Students will be more conscious to interpret political, social and constitutional developments through the method that they have learned in the lesson. | 1,2 | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| In the course is basic concept related democracy, the process of participation are managed by government to management from Ottoman to Republic, administrative and legal foundations that are provide participation to management, political parties and elections. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | General information about the lecture, introduction to sources | | | Week 2 | Concept of democracy and transformation that it migrated throughout History | | | Week 3 | As the beginning of the constitutional movement in the Ottoman Empire: Senet-i İttifak | | | Week 4 | Tanzimat and Reform Edict | | | Week 5 | The Proclamation of Legal Basis and Constitutional Absolutism Regime | | | Week 6 | The First Political Organizations ( Society of Union and Progress and other organizations) | | | Week 7 | 1909 variances on Legal Basis | | | Week 8 | National Struggle Period and Defense Law Societies | | | Week 9 | Mid-Exam | | | Week 10 | The opening of Turkey Grand National Assembly and Radical changes that it achieved, Abolition of the Sultanate and Caliphate, The Proclamation of Republic. | | | Week 11 | 1924 Constitution and its place in the Turkish Democracy History | | | Week 12 | Short Exam | | | Week 13 | Transition to Multi-Party System | | | Week 14 | 1946 Elections, Democrat Party and transition to Multi-Party Life | | | Week 15 | 27 May 1960 Coup, 1971 Memorandum, 1980 Coup and Influences in Turkish Political Life | | | Week 16 | Final-Exam | | | |
| 1 | Çavdar, Tevfik, Türkiye'nin Demokrasi Tarihi, İmge Yay., Ankara, 1995. | | | 2 | Shaw, Stanford J. Modern Türkiye'nin Doğuşu, TTK Basımevi, Ankara, 1996. | | | 3 | Tarık Zafer Tunaya, Türkiye'de Siyasal Partiler, İletişim Yay., İstanbul, 2009. | | | |
| 1 | Şenel, Alaaddin, Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi, Bilim ve Sanat Yay, İstanbul, 2011. | | | 2 | Shaw, Ezel Kural, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Modern Türkiye, I-II, E Yay., İstanbul, 1983.Tunaya, Tarık Zafer, Türkiye | | | 3 | İnan, Afet, Medeni Bilgiler ve M. Kemal Atatürk'ün El Yazmaları, TTK Basımevi, 1988.Goloğlu, Mahmut, Tek Partili Cumhuriyet, İş Bankası Yay, İstanbul, 2009. | | | 4 | Ahmad, Feroz, Demokrasi Sürecinde Türkiye, Hil Yayınları, İstanbul, 1996. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 03/04/2023 | 1 | 30 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 12 | 09/05/2023 | | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 06/06/2023 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 9 | 14 | 126 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 10 | 1 | 10 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 10 | 2 | 20 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 23 | 1 | 23 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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