AİT201

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

2

2

Compulsory

Turkish

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Undergraduate

Ottoman renewal movements, First Constitutional Monarchy, Committee of Union and Progress, Second Constitutional Monarchy, Tripoli and Balkan Wars, World War I and the Ottoman Empire, the period of the War of Independence, The declaration of the Republic will be discussed.

AHMAD, Feroz; İttihat ve Terakki, Kaynak Yayınları, İstanbul, 1995.
Ali Cevat Bey, The Declaration of the Second Constitutional Monarchy and the March 31 Hadissesi, ed. Faik Reşit Unat.
ATATÜRK, Mustafa Kemal (Ed. Haz. Zeynep Korkmaz); Nutuk 1919-1927, Atatürk
Research Center Publications, Ankara, 2005.
AYBARS, Ergun; History of the Republic of Turkey I, Ege University Faculty of Literature Publications,
İzmir, 1986.
BERKES, Niyazi; Türkiye'de Çağdaşlaşma, YKY, İstanbul, 2005.

The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to the Ottoman innovation movements, starting from the contemporary European developments in the states, the economic and political developments of the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. To examine their contributions to developments and their reflections in the Ottoman Empire; Constitutional Monarchy I, Committee of Union and Progress Society, and the effects of the Second Constitutional Monarchy, the Tripoli and Balkan Wars and World War I, To address the periods of developments in the period of the National Struggle.

1. It is aimed that students understand the process of the establishment of the Republic.
2. It aims to enable students to examine the revolutions carried out by Atatürk in their historical context.
3. It aims to enable students to interpret these principles and revolutions together with the society they live in.
4. Students are expected to examine the responses of these principles and reforms in political and social environments in the following processes of the Republic.

Week 1: Concepts and Ottoman Renovation
Week 2: European Developments, Industrial Revolution and French Revolution
Week 3: Neo-Ottomans, Constitutional Monarchy, Union and Progress
Week 4: Constitutional Monarchy Period II, Tripoli and Balkan Wars
Week 5: Causes of the First World War
Week 6: World War I, Partition of the Ottoman Empire
Week 7: Preparation Period of National Struggle
Week 8: Congresses
Week 9: Sivas Congress, Last Ottoman Mebusan Assembly and Misakı Milli
Week 10: GNAT Period and Formation of Fronts
Week 11: Treaty of Lausanne
Week 12: Foreign Policy

• Midterm 50 %
• Final 50 %