Turkish Political Development

POLS 305 traces how Turkish political authority has been built, contested, and reshaped from late-Ottoman reforms through the early Republic and into the multi-party era, with the 1980 coup as a recurring reference point for understanding institutional rupture. You'll work through the period largely by writing — two reports and a final essay — rather than memorizing chronology, so the real task is learning to argue about regime change using primary debates and secondary scholarship. It sits in the upper-division POLS core as the historical-empirical backbone that later courses on Turkish politics, civil-military relations, and democratization assume you already have.