HISTORY OF REPUBLICAN TURKEY

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
STORIA DELLA TURCHIA REPUBBLICANA
Course code
LT2860 (AF:303911 AR:165778)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-OR/13
Period
1st Semester
Course year
2
Where
VENEZIA
Finally a course on Middle East's contemporary issues! For the first time at "Ca' Foscari", I will be glad to start this brand new teaching experience: a course on Turkey's Republican History! Beginning with the first decade of the 20th century, the course aims at contextualizing the birth of the Turkish nation in the political and cultural climate in the final period of the Ottoman Empire's existence. All through the "long" 20th century, the course will deal with nowadays issues, such as the AKP governance, the Turkish intervention in the Syrian conflict and the ultimate birth of a new internal opposition.
The course aims at promoting a comparative kind of awareness on the potentialities of Turkey, as an essential democratic and industrial country of the Mediterranean area and the Middle East.
No precondition is due. Nevertheless, it is warmly suggested to have already followed, or at least to follow in the meantime, the course of History of the Ottoman Empire.
-The end of the Tanzimat
-The Young Turks era
-The First Republic (1923-1945)
-Transition to democracy (1945-1950)
-The Second Republic (1960-1980)
-The economic reforms
-The Third Republic (1980-today)
E.J. Zurcher, Turkey, A Modern History, I.B. Tauris, London e New York 2017, Fourth Edition.
Oral exam: the candidate will be asked to answer to questions on issues dealt with in class.
Classes. Discussions on contemporary issues as well as on comparative approaches will be more than welcome.
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Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 19/08/2019