1. Turkey: Model for the Arab Spring

2. Turkey History Byzantine Empire

3. Turkey History Ottoman Empire

4. Geography of Turkey (Boulder CO & Ankara Turkey are both 40 degrees north Latitude and 5300 and 4000ft. respectively)

5. Turkish Economy (Per capita GDP 14k-4k)

6. Turkey Demographics
Dark Red – 80% Kurdish

7. Turkey - Provinces

8. Atatürk

9. Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha
At Gallipoli

10. Mustafa Kemal – Nation Builder
Lausanne

11. Mustafa Kemal - Diplomat

12. Mustafa Kemal President

13. Atatürk’s Reforms – “6 Arrows” 1924
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

14. Mustafa Kemal President

15. Mustafa Kemal - Family Man
Wife, Latife & 13 Adopted Daughters, including Sabiha, Zehra & Rukiye

16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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17. Funeral 9 Nov 38 – 9:05am

18. Atatürk – Cult of Personality
Heykel nerede?

19. Parties represented in the current Parliament (Meclis) 2014
Party
Ideology
Political Position
Leader
MPs[1]
Justice and Development Party Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi
AKP
Economic liberalism Social conservatism Islamism (disputed by party)[2]
Center-right
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
313
Republican People's Party Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi
CHP
Kemalism Social democracy
Center-left
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu
131
Nationalist Movement Party Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi
MHP
Social conservatism Pan-Turkism Turkish nationalism
Right-wing
Devlet Bahçeli 52
Peoples' Democratic Party Halkların Demokratik Partisi
HDP
Kurdish nationalism Democratic socialism Feminism
Left-wing
Ertuğrul Kürkçü Sebahat Tuncel 27
Peace and Democracy Party Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi
BDP
Feminism Kurdish nationalism Social democracy
Gültan Kışanak Selahattin Demirtaş 2

20. İsmet İnönü

21. Adnan Menderes

22. Turkish Civil-Military Relations

23. 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

24. Turkish Military Interventions
1960 – Guardian
Guardian
1980 – Guardian
1997 – Displacement
None were the military ruler type.

25. Süleyman Demirel
Primeminister seven times
President

26. Bülent Ecevit Prime Minister four times between 1974-99
Succeeded Inonu as leader of CHP
Ordered the invasion of Cyprus in 1974

27. Turgut Özal
Prime Minister
President (Died in office)

28. Tansu Çiller Prime Minister 1993-96 for DYP Turkey’s only female PM

29. Necmettin Erbakan Refah (Welfare) Partisi PM from 1996-97
Removed by the 28 February Movement

30. Turkey - Laiklik

31. 7.8 on the Richter Scale 45K died/500k homeless
Golcuk 17 Aug 99
7.8 on the Richter Scale
45K died/500k homeless

32. Orhan Pamuk 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
2005 Prosecuted under Art. 301 for insulting Turkey

33. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

34. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan AKP

35. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan