Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History

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Director:  Sevtap Demirci

Assistant Directors: Nadir Ozbek, Ziya Umut Turem

Professors: Aydin Babuna, Ayse Bugra†, M. Asim Karaomerlioglu, Caglar Keyder, Duygu Koksal, Nadir Ozbek, Sevket  Pamuk, Zafer Toprak

Associate Professor: Cengiz Kirli, Berna Yazici

Assistant Professors: Sevtap Demirci, Ahmet Kuyas*, Ziya Umut Turem

Instructors: Maral Jefroudi, Kerem Morgul, Dr. Ugur Sipahioglu, Dr. Ayse Gun Soysal, Dr. Emine Tirali

*Part-time

† Professor Emeritus

The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History offers graduate degrees in 19th and 20th century Turkish history. The program emphasizes the emergence, development and current issues of  the modern Republic and neighboring countries in the Balkans, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Turkic Central Asia. To this end, the Institute offers Master's and Ph.D. programs exposing graduate students from different backgrounds in social sciences to interdisciplinary and comparative approaches.

Included among the responsibilities of the Institute at the undergraduate level are required courses on the History of the Turkish Republic for the entire student body at Bogaziçi University.

HTR 311 History of the Turkish Republic I (2+0+0) 2 ECTS 3
(Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Tarihi I)
A general survey of Turkish history from about the mid-19th century until World War II with a particular focus on the early Republican era. A comparative and analytical account of Westernization and Ottoman reform attempts, the struggle for constitution, the economic and social transformations, diplomacy and foreign policy, World War I, the rise of Turkish nationalism, the National Struggle, Kemalist social, economic and cultural reforms in the 1920s and 1930s with special emphasis on the Kemalist principles.

HTR 312 History of the Turkish Republic II (2+0+0) 2 ECTS 3
(Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Tarihi II)
A general survey of Turkish history from the beginning of World War II until the present. A comparative and analytical account of party-politics, social movements and mobilizations; different interpretations of Kemalism, the problems of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration; cultural and ideological changes, Turkey's foreign policy and an overall assessment of Turkey's standing in light of national and international developments.

HTR 405 History of the Turkish Republic for Foreign Students I (2+0+0) 2 ECTS 3
(Yabanci Ogrenciler icin Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Tarihi I)
A general survey of Turkish history from about the mid-19th century until World War II with a particular focus on the early Republican era. A comparative and analytical account of Westernization and Ottoman reform attempts, the struggle for constitution, the economic and social transformations, diplomacy and foreign policy, World War I, the rise of Turkish nationalism, the National Struggle, Kemalist social, economic and cultural reforms in the 1920s and 1930s with special emphasis on the Kemalist principles.
(Taught in English and required of all foreign students).

HTR 406 History of the Turkish Republic for Foreign Students II (2+0+0) 2 ECTS 3
(Yabanci Ogrenciler icin Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Tarihi II)
A general survey of Turkish history from the beginning of World War II until the present. A comparative and analytical account of party-politics, social movements and mobilizations; different interpretations of Kemalism, the problems of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration; cultural and ideological changes, Turkey's foreign policy and an overall assessment of Turkey's standing in light of national and international developments.
(Taught in English and required of all foreign students).