Turkish Foreign Policy (1920-1945) I

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

This course deals with the developments of The Ottoman Empire foreign policy from 19.century to the end of First World War, the relations between Eastern and Western government, nationalism flows and soil loss.

Weekly Schedule

1) Course and promotion of the topics covered
2) The effects of the Ottoman Empire and Europe to the French Revolution
3) 19. century Ottoman relations with foreign countries
4) Foreign political developments in period of Selim III
5) External events and relations with European states in period of Mahmut II
6) Rising of Mehmet Ali Pasha and the Ottomanthe effects
7) Foreign policy in period of Tanzimat
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Foreign policy and the Crimean War period Abdülmecit
10) Reflections to foreign policy of the Treaty of Paris,
11) Abdulaziz period riots
12) Foreign policy in the period Abdülhamid II
13) External factors of Constitutional Monarchy II, Tripoli and the Balkan Wars
14) World War I and Consequences
15) World War I and the Ottoman Empire
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Enver Ziya Karal, Osmanlı Tarihi, C. VI-VII-VIII-IX. TTK Yayınları.
2- Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih (İlkçağlardan 918’e).
3- -20. Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarihi 1914 - 1980; Fahir Armaoğlu, Türkiye İş Bankası Yay, İstanbul, 1983 -Olaylarla Türk Dış Politikası, Mehmet Gönlübol et.al, Ankara, 1993.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	40%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	60%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required