Students, who passed the course satisfatorily, will be able to ;

* understand and explain the continutities between the latest period of the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the 20th century and the early Republican era in the 1920s and the 1930s;

*understand the nature of the Turkish single party regime in Turkey and  of the Republican People's Party during M. Kemal Ataturk's lifetime and afterwards;

*explain the  parameters of the Republican reforms and their consequences for democratic development, state-society relations as well as fıor economic development in Turkey;

*analyze the  internal and external dynamics of the transition to competitive electoral process in Turkey in the 1940s ;

* analyze and discuss the political legacy of the Democratic Party (1950-1960) and the dynamics of the bi-party competition in this period;

* analyze the causes and the consequences of the May 27, 1960 military coup

* analyze the constitution-making process in 1961 and the  transition period;

*understand the major actors in the Turkish party system and the civil society in the 1960s and electoral dynamics the 1970s up to the 1980 military intervention;

* analyze and discuss the 1971 semi-coup and the 1980 coup d'etat comparatively ;

* gain insights into post-1980 democratization dynamics and its actors and  the major challenges of democratic consolidation  in Turkey after 1983.