Turkey Model for the Arab Spring Turkey History
Turkey: Model for the Arab Spring
Turkey History Byzantine Empire
Turkey History Ottoman Empire
Geography of Turkey (Boulder CO & Ankara Turkey are both 40 degrees north Latitude and 5300 and 4000 ft. respectively)
Turkish Economy (Per capita GDP 14 k-4 k)
Turkey Demographics Dark Red – 80% Kurdish
Turkey - Provinces
Atatürk 1881 -1938
Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha At Gallipoli
Mustafa Kemal – Nation Builder Lausanne - 1922
Mustafa Kemal - Diplomat
Mustafa Kemal President
Mustafa Kemal President
Mustafa Kemal - President Atatürk’s Reforms – “ 6 Arrows” 1924 • Secular government: Elimination of the Caliphate/ Sharia Law replaced by Western Law • No Islamic/Ottoman Dress • Change to Latin Alphabet • Literacy campaign • Surnames • Women’s Rights/Coeducation • Moving the Capital away from Istanbul
Mustafa Kemal - Family Man Wife, Latife & 13 Adopted Daughters, including Sabiha, Zehra & Rukiye
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Icon
Funeral 9 Nov 38 – 9: 05 am
Atatürk – Cult of Personality Heykel nerede?
Parties represented in the current Parliament (Meclis) 2014 Party Ideology Political Position Leader MPs[1] Center-right Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 313 Justice and Development Party Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi AKP Economic liberalism Social conservatism Islamism (disputed by party)[2] Republican People's Party Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi CHP Kemalism Social democracy Center-left Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu 131 Social conservatism Pan-Turkism Turkish nationalism Right-wing Devlet Bahçeli 52 Kurdish nationalism Democratic socialism Feminism Left-wing Ertuğrul Kürkçü Sebahat Tuncel 27 Feminism Kurdish nationalism Social democracy Left-wing Gültan Kışanak 2 Selahattin Demirtaş Nationalist Movement Party MHP Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi Peoples' Democratic Party HDP Halkların Demokratik Partisi Peace and Democracy Party BDP Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi
İsmet İnönü 1938 -50
Adnan Menderes 1950 -61
Turkish Civil-Military Relations
Theories of Civil/Military Relations • Huntington, “The Soldier and the State” – Professional Soldier • Janowitz, “The Professional Soldier” – Soldier/Statesman • “The military needs coercive power to protect society, but once established, the power is itself a potential threat to the interests of the group it is meant to protect. ” • Objective v. subjective control
Turkish Military Interventions 1960 – Guardian 1971 - Guardian 1980 – Guardian 1997 – Displacement None were the military ruler type.
Süleyman Demirel Primeminister seven times 1965 -93 President 1993 -2000
Bülent Ecevit Prime Minister four times between 1974 -99 Succeeded Inonu as leader of CHP Ordered the invasion of Cyprus in 1974
Turgut Özal Prime Minister 1983 -87 President 1989 -93 (Died in office)
Tansu Çiller Prime Minister 1993 -96 for DYP Turkey’s only female PM
Necmettin Erbakan Refah (Welfare) Partisi PM from 1996 -97 Removed by the 28 February Movement
Turkey - Laiklik
Golcuk 17 Aug 99 • 7. 8 on the Richter Scale • 45 K died/500 k homeless
Orhan Pamuk • • 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature 2005 Prosecuted under Art. 301 for insulting Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan AKP
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