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Week
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Topics
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Study Metarials
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1
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Introducing the course
Different perspectives to understand political history
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2
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The history of politics in the Turks of Central Asia, basic concepts of political thought
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R1., R2., R3.
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3
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Seljukian period; the assessment of the Turks of Central Asia and Seljuks in terms of culture and civilization
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R4., R5.
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4
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the Ottomans: transition process, from the principality to the state, the state to the empire
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R6.
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5
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Political structure, institutions and methods in the Ottomans: sultanate, regency, fratricide, the cage system, the davshirma system and Harem
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R7.
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6
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Bacis political concepts in the Ottomans: the Public Order, the Circle of Justice, Political Thought in the Classical Period
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R8.
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7
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Economic and Sociological Structure, a debate on the Ottomans and feudalism
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R9., R10.
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8
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Political, economic, sociological and scientific developments in Europe and the establishment of new world order
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R11.
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9
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Modernization movements of the Ottomans
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R12.
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10
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The stream of thoughts from Tanzimat Era to the Republican Era: Ottomanism and Islamism
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R13., R14.
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11
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The stream of thoughts from Tanzimat Era to the Republican Era: Turkism, Westernism, Turanism, Socialism
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R13., R14.
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12
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The transition from the Ottomans to the Turkish Republic: Historical Process
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R15.
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13
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The Republican Period: the legitimacy problem of the new state, power struggles, political and sociological shifts, the establishment of the Turkish nation
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R16.
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14
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The evaluation of Ataturk period in terms of democracy, republic, authoritarianism and totalitarianism. A theoretical debate on the transition from the Ottomans to the Turkish Republic.
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R17., R18., R19.
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