Konstantinos Gogos

University Teacher (PD 407/80)

kgogos[at]turkmas.uoa[dot]gr

3 hours per week

Course objectives

This course focuses on the evolution, political programmes and policies of political parties in the Turkish Republic. Turkish political parties and political leaders are examined historically and thematically. The discussion of the relevant international bibliography is a significant part of the course. The course’s main objective is to make students familiar with the ideological lines, programmes, policies of Turkish political parties, as well as with the most prominent Turkish political leaders.

Course Structure

• The study of political parties in Political science;
• Ideologies and politics in the Turkish Republic;
• The courts and the “ban of political parties” in Turkey.
• Political parties and ideological currents in the Turkish Republic: the 1923-1960 period;
• The 1960-1980 period;
• The period after 1983. The parties of political Islam: Erbakan’s Islamism and party formations; AKP‘s leadership, ideology, electoral success, policies; AKP’s government and opposition forces.

Assessment

Final written examination: 100 %, or alternatively

Mid-term paper (25%) plus final written examination (75%)

Required Textbook

Στέφανος Πεσμαζόγλου, Ευρώπη-Τουρκία, Ιδεολογία και Ρητορεία: Οι αντιλήψεις των τουρκικών πολιτικών δυνάμεων για την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση 1957-1993, Βιβλίο Δεύτερο, Αθήνα: Θεμέλιο, 1993

Bibliography

Ateş, Toktamış, Siyasal Tarih, (İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2004)

Çavdar, Tevfik, Türkiye'nin Demokrasi Tarihi (1950’den Günümüze), İmge Kitabevi, (İstanbul: İmge Kitabevi, 2008, 4. Baskı)

Tunaya, Tarık Zafer, Türkiye’de Siyasal Partiler, Cilt 2 (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2010, 4. Baskı) / Cilt 3, (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2009, 4. Baskı).

Rubin, Barry / Metin Heper (eds.), Political Parties in Turkey, (London/Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2002)

Cizre, Ümit (ed.), Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of the Justice and Development Party, (London and New York: Routledge, 2008)

Çarkoglu, Ali and Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, Turkish Democracy Today: Elections, Protest and Stability in an Islamic Society, (London: I. B. Tauris, 2007)

Franz, Erhard, Das Parteiensystem in der Türkei, (Hamburg: Arbeitspapier, Deutsches Übersee-Institut, Juni 2003 (see: www.giga-hamburg.de/dl/download.php)