MEDICINE
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
GEP0503 Greek and Turkish Relations in the Aegean Fall 3 0 3 3
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: GE-Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
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
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
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.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;

1. Students shall gain useful and necessary background to understand cosmopoitan Aegean society of the earlier years within the framework of peaceful coexistence
2. Students shall learn about transformation of the Greek-Turkish Relations during the process of transtion of Empire to Nation-State.
3. Students shall learn to examine the dynamics of the region through exploring economic and socio-cultural life with a interdisciplinary perspective.
4. Students shall develop critical thinking skills to approach Greek and Turkish Nationalisms in the Aegean.
5. Students shall learn about significant pionering academic works.
6. Students shall synthesize diverse kinds of information and to express ideas clearly and cogently.

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.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

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.

Evaluation System

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 % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Integrates the knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired from basic and clinical medical sciences, behavioral sciences and social sciences, and uses them in health service delivery.
2) In patient management, shows a biopsychosocial approach that takes into account the socio-demographic and sociocultural background of the individual, regardless of language, religion, race and gender.
3) In the provision of health services, prioritizes the protection and development of the health of individuals and society.
4) Taking into account the individual, societal, social and environmental factors affecting health; does the necessary work to maintain and improve the state of health.
5) By recognizing the characteristics, needs and expectations of the target audience, provides health education to healthy/sick individuals and their relatives and other healthcare professionals.
6) Shows a safe, rational and effective approach in health service delivery, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation processes.
7) Performs invasive and/or non-invasive procedures in diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation processes in a safe and effective way for the patient.
8) Provides health services by considering patient and employee health and safety.
9) In the provision of health services, takes into account the changes in the physical and socioeconomic environment on a regional and global scale, as well as the changes in the individual characteristics and behaviors of the people who apply to it.
10) Takes good medical practice into account while carrying out his/her profession.
11) Fulfills its duties and obligations within the framework of ethical principles, rights and legal responsibilities required by its profession.
12) Demonstrates decisive behavior in providing high-quality health care, taking into account the integrity of the patient.
13) Evaluates his/her performance in his/her professional practice by considering his/her emotions and cognitive characteristics.
14) Advocates improving the provision of health services by considering the concepts of social reliability and social responsibility for the protection and development of public health.
15) Can plan and carry out service delivery, training and consultancy processes related to individual and community health in cooperation with all components for the protection and development of health.
16) Evaluates the impact of health policies and practices on individual and community health indicators and advocates increasing the quality of health services.
17) The physician attaches importance to the protection of his/her own physical, mental and social health, and does what is necessary for this
18) Shows exemplary behavior and leads the healthcare team during service delivery.
19) Uses resources cost-effectively, for the benefit of society and in accordance with the legislation, in the planning, implementation and evaluation processes of health services in the health institution he/she is the manager of.
20) Establishes positive communication within the health team it serves and assumes different team roles when necessary.
21) Is aware of the duties and responsibilities of the health workers in the health team and acts accordingly.
22) In the professional practices, works in harmony and effectively with the colleagues and other professional groups.
23) Communicates effectively with patients, their relatives, healthcare professionals, other professional groups, institutions and organizations.
24) Communicates effectively with individuals and groups that require a special approach and have different socio-cultural characteristics.
25) In the diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation processes, shows a patient-centered approach that associates the patient with the decision-making mechanisms.
26) Plans and implements scientific research, when necessary, for the population it serves, and uses the results and/or the results of other research for the benefit of the society.
27) Reaches and critically evaluates current literature knowledge about his/her profession.
28) Applies the principles of evidence-based medicine in clinical decision making.
29) Uses information technologies to increase the effectiveness of its work on health care, research and education.
30) Effectively manages individual work processes and career development.
31) Demonstrates skills in acquiring and evaluating new knowledge, integrating it with existing knowledge, applying it to professional situations and adapting to changing conditions throughout professional life.
32) Selects the right learning resources to improve the quality of the health service it offers, organizes its own learning process