POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Ders Genel Tanıtım Bilgileri

Course Code:

GEP0503

Ders İsmi:

Greek and Turkish Relations in the Aegean

Ders Yarıyılı:

Fall
Spring

Ders Kredileri:

Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
3	0	3	3

Language of instruction:

English

Ders Koşulu:

Ders İş Deneyimini Gerektiriyor mu?:

Type of course:

GE-Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

Face to face

Course Coordinator :

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi NURAN FERYAL TANSUĞ DOURLARİS

Course Lecturer(s):

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi NURAN FERYAL TANSUĞ DOURLARİS

Course Assistants:

Dersin Amaç ve İçeriği

Course Objectives:	Considering political, economical and social developments of the 19th century, this course aims to analyze the role of the western Anatolia in the process of integration of the Ottoman Empire into the world capitalist economy and in absorbing and transforming western ideas and pattern of life to the empire.
Course Content:	Analysis of the dilemmas of the transition to nation-state with respect to ethnic conflict and clash of two nationalisms in the Aegean.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;

Learning Outcomes

1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
Learning Competence
Field Specific Competence
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility

Ders Akış Planı

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction to Course and Review of Syllabus
2)	Western Anatolia and Aegean Islands in the Byzantine Times & Transformation into the Ottoman Rule	Speros Vryonis, “The Decline of Byzantine Civilization in Asia Minor, Eleventh-Fifteenth century.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 29 (1975), pp. 351-356. Halil İnalcık, “The Rise of the Turcoman Maritime Principalities in Anatolia, Byzantium and Crusades,” Byzantinische Forschungen, Adolf M. Hakker, Walter E. Kaegi.
3)	Crusaders in the Aegean & Consolidation of the Ottoman rule & ruling of multi-ethnic and multi-religious Western Anatolia and Aegean Islands	Necmi Ülker, “İzmir from the End of the Byzantine Ear to the Times of the Turkish Republic”, in İzmir, İstanbul, 1993, pp. 76-80. Halil İnalcık, “The Status of the Greek Patriarch Under the Ottomans,” in Halil İnalcık, Essays in Ottoman History (Istanbul: Eren Press, 1998). Daniel Goffman, İzmir and the Levantine World, 1550-1650, Seatle and London, University of Washington Press, 1990, chapter 1. İdris Bostan, “The Establishment of the Province of Cezayir-i Bahr-ı Sefid,” in Halcyon Days in Crete IV, The Kapudan Pasha His Office and His Domain, ed. Elizabeth Zachariadou (Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 2002), 240-51.
4)	Nationalism ve Ethnicity	Ernest Renan, “Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?” in Nationalism, eds. John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 171-18. Joseph Stalin, “The nation,” in Nationalism, eds. John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 18-21. Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities,” in John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 89-96. Üner Turgay, “Nation,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 3, 1995, pp. 232-235. Anthony Smith, Anthony D. Smith’s opening Statement: Nations and their pasts,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1996, 358-365. Ernest Gellner’s Reply: ‘Do Nations have navels?’” in Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1996, pp. 371-378. Eric Hobsbawn, “The Opiate Ethnicity,” Alphabet City, No. 2, 1992, pp. 8-11.
5)	Nationalism & Ethnicity Greek and Turkish Cases	Will Lymlicka, “Misunderstanding nationalism” in Theorizing Nationalism, ed. Roger Beiner, Albany, NY: State Univ of New York Press, 1999, pp. 131-141 Bernard Yack, “The Myth of civic nationalism,” National Pact, July 1, 2002, (2 pages) Louay Safi, “Nationalism and the multinational state,” The American Journal of Islamic Social sciences, Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 1992. Umut Özkırımlı, Sypiros A. Sofos, “Modernity, Emlightenment, Westernization” in Tormented by History, Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, chapter 2, 15-41.
6)	Ottoman Modernization/Transformation	Şükrü Hanioğlu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, chapters 2, 3 & 4. Reşat Kasaba, “The Enlightenment, Greek Civilization and The Ottoman Empire,” The Journal of Historical Sociology, 16, no. 1, March 2003, 1-21. Reşat Kasaba, “Dreams of Empires, Dreams of Nations” in Empire to nation: historical perspectives on the making of the modern world, eds. Joseph Esherick, Hasan Kayalı, Eric Van Young, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
7)	Greek Modernization/Transformation	Gregory Jusdanis, Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture Inventing National Literature [Gecikmiş Modernlik ve Estetik Kültür, Milli Edebiyatın İcat Edilişi] The Regents of University of Minnesota, 1991, chapter 2. Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992, chapter 3.
8)	Aegean during the transformation of the Empire, 19th century, part I	Reşat Kasaba, “İzmir,” Review, XVI, 4, Fall, 1993, pp. 387-410. Daniel Goffman, “İzmir From Village to Colonial Port City” The Ottoman City Between East and West, Aleppo, İzmir, and Istanbul, eds. Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman, Bruce Masters, Cambridge University Press, 1999. An Overview to the Aegean Islands
9)	Aegean during the transformation of the Empire, 19th century, part II	Elena Frangakis Syrett, “The Economic Activities of the Greek Community of İzmir in the Second half of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” Ottoman Greeks in the Age of Nationalism, 1999, eds. Charles Issawi, Dimitri Gondicas, The Darwin Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 1999, pp. 17-44. Sibel Zandi Sayek, “Orchestrating Difference, Performing Identity: Urban Space and Public Rituals in Nineteenth Century İzmir,” Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment, ed. Nezar Al Sayyad, Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2001
10)	Aegean during the transformation of the Empire, 19th century, part II	Ziya Gökalp, “What is Turkism? And “Turkism and Turanism” in The Principles of Turkism, translated and annotated by Robert Devereux, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1968, 12-21. David Kushner, The Rise of Turkish Nationalism, London: Frank Cass, 1977, introduction, 1-19. Soner Çağaptay, Islam, Secularism, and Nationalism in Modern Turkey, Who is a Turk? (London and New York: Routledge), chapter 3. Umut Özkırımlı, Sypiros A. Sofos, “Past, Memory, History” in Tormented by History, Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, chapter 4, 77-101.
11)	Clash of Greek and Turkish Nationalisms in the Aegean	Sia Anagnastopoulou, “İzmir’s ‘National Historical Mission’” The Passage from the Ottoman Empire to the Nation States, A Long and Difficult Process: The Greek Case, Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2004, pp. 75-101. “İzmir 1922: A Port City Unravels,” Culture and Modernity from Meditarrenean and to The Indian Ocean, eds. Leila Tarazi Fawaz, Christopher Alan Bayly, New York: Colombia University Press, 2002, pp. 205-229.
12)	The Impact of the Nationalism on the two sides of the Aegean	Biray Kolluoğlu Kırlı, “Cityscapes and Modernity: Smyrna Morphing into İzmir” in Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey, Encounters with Europe, 1850-1950, London, New York, I.B. Tauris, pp. 217-235. Harry Tzimitras, “Europe, Nationalism in the Turkish Greek Aegean,” in In the Long Shadow of Europe Greeks and Turks in the area of Post-Nationalism, eds. Othon Anastasakis, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Kerem Öktem (Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nihoff Publishers, 2009), pp.239-262.
13)	The Response of the People to the expanding nationalism on the two sides of the Aegean	Hercules Milas, “Perception of Conflict: Greeks and Turks in each other’s mirrors,” in In the Long Shadow of Europe Greeks and Turks in the area of Post-Naitonalism, eds. Othon Anastasakis, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Kerem Öktem (Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nihoff Publishers, 2009), pp. 95-114.
14)	Human dimension	Bruce Clark, Twice a Stranger, London: Granta Books, 2006. Louis de Berniers, Birds Without Wings, London: Vintage Books, 2005.
15)	Final Exam
16)	Final Exam

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Speros Vryonis, “The Decline of Byzantine Civilization in Asia Minor, Eleventh-Fifteenth century.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 29 (1975), pp. 351-356.
Halil İnalcık, “The Rise of the Turcoman Maritime Principalities in Anatolia, Byzantium and Crusades,” Byzantinische Forschungen, Adolf M. Hakker, Walter E. Kaegi.
Necmi Ülker, “İzmir from the End of the Byzantine Ear to the Times of the Turkish Republic”, in İzmir, İstanbul, 1993, pp. 76-80.
Halil İnalcık, “The Status of the Greek Patriarch Under the Ottomans,” in Halil İnalcık, Essays in Ottoman History (Istanbul: Eren Press, 1998).
Daniel Goffman, İzmir and the Levantine World, 1550-1650, Seatle and London, University of Washington Press, 1990, chapter 1.
İdris Bostan, “The Establishment of the Province of Cezayir-i Bahr-ı Sefid,” in Halcyon Days in Crete IV, The Kapudan Pasha His Office and His Domain, ed. Elizabeth Zachariadou (Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 2002), 240-51.
Ernest Renan, “Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?” in Nationalism, eds. John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 171-18.
Joseph Stalin, “The nation,” in Nationalism, eds. John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 18-21.
Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities,” in John Hutchinson & Anthony Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 89-96.
Üner Turgay, “Nation,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 3, 1995, pp. 232-235.
Anthony Smith, Anthony D. Smith’s opening Statement: Nations and their pasts,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1996, 358-365.
Ernest Gellner’s Reply: ‘Do Nations have navels?’” in Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1996, pp. 371-378.
Eric Hobsbawn, “The Opiate Ethnicity,” Alphabet City, No. 2, 1992, pp. 8-11.

Will Lymlicka, “Misunderstanding nationalism” in Theorizing Nationalism, ed. Roger Beiner, Albany, NY: State Univ of New York Press, 1999, pp. 131-141
Bernard Yack, “The Myth of civic nationalism,” National Pact, July 1, 2002, (2 pages)
Louay Safi, “Nationalism and the multinational state,” The American Journal of Islamic Social sciences, Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 1992.
Umut Özkırımlı, Sypiros A. Sofos, “Modernity, Emlightenment, Westernization” in Tormented by History, Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, chapter 2, 15-41.
Şükrü Hanioğlu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, chapters 2, 3 & 4.
Reşat Kasaba, “The Enlightenment, Greek Civilization and The Ottoman Empire,” The Journal of Historical Sociology, 16, no. 1, March 2003, 1-21.
Reşat Kasaba, “Dreams of Empires, Dreams of Nations” in Empire to nation: historical perspectives on the making of the modern world, eds. Joseph Esherick, Hasan Kayalı, Eric Van Young, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006.

Gregory Jusdanis, Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture Inventing National Literature [Gecikmiş Modernlik ve Estetik Kültür, Milli Edebiyatın İcat Edilişi] The Regents of University of Minnesota, 1991, chapter 2.
Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992, chapter 3.

References:

Reşat Kasaba, “İzmir,” Review, XVI, 4, Fall, 1993, pp. 387-410.
Daniel Goffman, “İzmir From Village to Colonial Port City” The Ottoman City Between East and West, Aleppo, İzmir, and Istanbul, eds. Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman, Bruce Masters, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Elena Frangakis Syrett, “The Economic Activities of the Greek Community of İzmir in the Second half of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” Ottoman Greeks in the Age of Nationalism, 1999, eds. Charles Issawi, Dimitri Gondicas, The Darwin Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 1999, pp. 17-44.
Sibel Zandi Sayek, “Orchestrating Difference, Performing Identity: Urban Space and Public Rituals in Nineteenth Century İzmir,” Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment, ed. Nezar Al Sayyad, Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2001

Ziya Gökalp, “What is Turkism? And “Turkism and Turanism” in The Principle of Turkism, translated and annotated by Robert Devereux, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1968, 12-21.
David Kushner, The Rise of Turkish Nationalism, London: Frank Cass, 1977, introduction, 1-19.
Soner Çağaptay, Islam, Secularism, and Nationalism in Modern Turkey, Who is a Turk? (London and New York: Routledge), chapter 3.
Umut Özkırımlı, Sypiros A. Sofos, “Past, Memory, History” in Tormented by History, Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, chapter 4, 77-101
Sia Anagnastopoulou, “İzmir’s ‘National Historical Mission’” The Passage from the
Ottoman Empire to the Nation States, A Long and Difficult Process: The Greek Case, Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2004, pp. 75-101.
“İzmir 1922: A Port City Unravels,” Culture and Modernity from Meditarrenean and to The Indian Ocean, eds. Leila Tarazi Fawaz, Christopher Alan Bayly, New York: Colombia University Press, 2002, pp. 205-229.

Ders - Program Öğrenme Kazanım İlişkisi

Ders Öğrenme Kazanımları
Program Outcomes
1) Grasp basic theoretical and conceptual knowledge about the field and relations between them at the level of practice.
2) Possess basic knowledge about the causes and effects of political transformations in societies.
3) Possess knowledge about quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods in social and behavioral sciences.
4) Recognize historical patterns while evaluating contemporary political and social developments.
5) Demonstrate interdisciplinary and critical approach while analyzing, synthesizing and forecasting domestic and foreign policy.
6) Conduct studies in the field professionally, both independently or as a team member.
7) Possess consciousness about lifelong learning based on Research & Development.
8) Communicate with peers both orally and in writing, by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level and the necessary informatics and communication technologies.
9) Apply field-related knowledge and competences into career advancement, projects for sustainable development goals, and social responsibility initiatives.
10) Possess the habit to monitor domestic and foreign policy agenda as well as international developments.
11) Possess competence to interpret the new political actors, theories and concepts in a global era.
12) Evaluate the legal and ethical implications of advanced technologies on politics.

Ders - Öğrenme Kazanımı İlişkisi

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Grasp basic theoretical and conceptual knowledge about the field and relations between them at the level of practice.
2)	Possess basic knowledge about the causes and effects of political transformations in societies.
3)	Possess knowledge about quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods in social and behavioral sciences.
4)	Recognize historical patterns while evaluating contemporary political and social developments.
5)	Demonstrate interdisciplinary and critical approach while analyzing, synthesizing and forecasting domestic and foreign policy.
6)	Conduct studies in the field professionally, both independently or as a team member.
7)	Possess consciousness about lifelong learning based on Research & Development.
8)	Communicate with peers both orally and in writing, by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level and the necessary informatics and communication technologies.
9)	Apply field-related knowledge and competences into career advancement, projects for sustainable development goals, and social responsibility initiatives.
10)	Possess the habit to monitor domestic and foreign policy agenda as well as international developments.
11)	Possess competence to interpret the new political actors, theories and concepts in a global era.
12)	Evaluate the legal and ethical implications of advanced technologies on politics.

Öğrenme Etkinliği ve Öğretme Yöntemleri

Ölçme ve Değerlendirme Yöntemleri ve Kriterleri

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Homework Assignments	1	% 20
Project	1	% 10
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 30
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 70
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 30
Total		% 100

İş Yükü ve AKTS Kredisi Hesaplaması

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	12	2	24
Presentations / Seminar	1	6	6
Homework Assignments	1	15	15
Midterms	1	8	8
Final	1	10	10
Total Workload			105