Year / Semester

1^st Year/ Spring Semester

Type of Course

Compulsory

Course Contents

Ataturk’s principles. Principle of Republic, relationship between republic and democracy. Ataturk and republicanism. Principle of nationalism. Concepts of nation and nationalism. Principle of populism. Populism in Turks, populism understanding of Ataturk. Principle of laicisim. Definition of religion and its relationship with other institutions. Laicism and principle of laicism in Turks. Definiton of state, its tasks, classical and modern understanding. Atatism in Turks. Benefits for the Turkish community of etatism in Ataturk’s thinking system. Principle of revolutionary, and its definition . Revolutionary in Ataturk’s thinking system.

Prerequisite/ Recommended

None

Objektife of te Course

This course aims to teach the first year undergraduate students information about the Turkish National Struggle, Ataturk’s principles and the history of the revolution.

Textbook/ Recommended

1. Nutuk I ve II

2. Hamza Eroğlu, Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi

3. Yusuf Hikmet Bayür, Türk İnkılap Tarihi 1-6

Form of teaching

Lectures

Form of assessment

Two written midterm exam (40%); one written final exam (60%)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Öğretim elemanı/Instructor

Yrd.doç.dr. İlhan PALALI