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| ULS3013 | Turkish Foreign Policy I | 3+0+0 | ECTS:5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. İsmail KÖSE | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Süleyman Erkan
| | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | With TFP, students will have a scientific perspective and expected outputs will be as below:
? TFP?s traditional line
? Theoretical framework of TFP
? Balkans and TFP
? World politics and TFP
? Government policies and TFP
? Single Party era TFP
? Cold War and TFP |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | define Turkish Foreign Policy since the first years of the establishment of Turkish Republic. | 1,12 | 1 | | LO - 2 : | explain the builders, characteristics and principles of Turkish Foreign Policy | 1,12 | 1 | | LO - 3 : | associate the tendencies of Turkish Foreign Policy with common assessments. | 1,12 | 1 | | LO - 4 : | interpret about leaders and Political Party periods of Turkish Foreign Policy chronologically. | 1,12 | 1 | | LO - 5 : | explain the principles, builders and characteristics of Turkish Foreign Policy related to Turkey?s relations with other regions | 1,12 | 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), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP-I) starts from the last century of Ottoman Empire. Especially beginning from Abdulhamit II?s reign (1876-1909) TFP has tracked a balance policy considering conflicting interests of big powers. It could be said that balance policy provided survival of collapsing Ottoman Empire for a while. During the rule of Ittihat Terakki, Union and Progress (UPP) (1909-1918) traditional had some grave changes but during and after National Struggle it again based on its long-lasting balance policy. During Republican era except annexation of Hatay (1939) and two Peace Operations to Cyprus (July, August 1974) TFP continued to track its traditions policy making method. After the collapse of Ottoman Empire the transformation into a national state brought some grave problems and TFP inevitably closely has been affected by that developments. Because of said reasons TFP is not a story of success neither during the last century of Ottoman Empire nor during the Republican era. Challenges, incapability, difficulties, historical ties (Balkans and Middle East) and Turkish legacy all around the world are the basic problems TFP makers should cope with. TFP makers, bearing in mind that difficulties try to implement a policy which will make Turkey an international actor.
In this Class: basic concepts of foreign policy will be underlined, with a critical viewing will be evaluated. Freedom of speech is the basic of the class and the period 1912-1980 will be the main time span that would be tackled with. Thus analytical skills of undergraduate student will be focused on. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction | | | Week 2 | The elements of Turkish Foreign Policy | | | Week 3 | Structural Factors | | | Week 4 | Interior Factors | | | Week 5 | Internetional System | | | Week 6 | Geopolitics | | | Week 7 | Foreign Policy Analysis regarding the processes | | | Week 8 | Turkish Foreign policy during the National Struggle Era (1919-1922) | | | Week 9 | Mid term exam | | | Week 10 | Turkish Foreign policy (1923-1932) | | | Week 11 | Turkish Foreign policy (132-1938) | | | Week 12 | Turkish Foreign During the wwII (1939-1945) | | | Week 13 | Turkish Foreign During the wwII (1939-1945) | | | Week 14 | Turkish Foreign After the wwII (1945-1950) | | | Week 15 | Turkish Foreign in th the Cold War Era(1950-1955) | | | Week 16 | Final exam | | | |
| 1 | Oran, Baskın, 2001, Türk Dış Politikası, Cilt 1, İletişim Yayınevi, İstanbul | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 11/2025 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 01/2026 | 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 | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 33 | 1 | 33 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Ödev | 8 | 1 | 8 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 35 | 1 | 35 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Total work load | | | 150 |
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