1. EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED
TURKEY
EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED

29. “WESTERNIZATION/ SECULARIZATION”
November 1922, Sultanate abolished
October 13, 1923, Ankara becomes the new capital.
March 3, 1924, Caliphate abolished
April 8, 1924, Religious courts abolished
November 25, 1925, Fez abolished
December 26, 1925, International time and calendar adopted
March 26, 1926, Alcohol made legal for Muslims
September 1, 1926, Civil marriage made compulsory
April 10, 1927, House and street numbering adopted
November 1, 1928, Latin alphabet adopted
April 3, 1930, Women enfranchised
March 26, 1931, Metric system adopted
June 21, 1934, Family Name Law adopted
1935, Sunday becomes the weekly holiday

30. Father of His Country

32. Precedents and Limitations of Westernization
The Tanzimat –
“Special Places”
Istanbul
Smyrna/Izmir
Ankara

33. Turk? Kurd? Armenian?

34. Diyarbikir

35. The Politics of Identity
CHP – Republican Peoples Party
First open elections, 1950
Democratic Party – Adnan Menderes
Coups
1960
1971
1980
1997* -- Erbakan, Welfare Party
2016

36. Politics & Islam Today AK Party – Justice and Development
(Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi)
CHP – Republican People’s Party
MHP – Nationalist Movement Party
(Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi)

37. Coming to the Point

38. Space and Symbol 2013

40. In the Capital -- Symbols – Secular, National, and Religious

41. Observations on Contemporary Issues
Islam in Turkey – A Threat or a Tradition?
EU or not EU?
Moving Toward Democracy or to Theocracy?
Armenians, Kurds, and the nature of the state.
Turkey and the US after the Cold War
Ottomania and the rediscovery of “heritage”

42. Program Break

43. The Peoples of Anatolia
c 10, Cave dwellings at Karain BC
c7000 Earliest evidence of agriculture
c Çatalhöyük,Alachöyük, Canhasan, Beycesultan settlements
c 3000 First settlement at Troy
c 1950 Assyrian merchant colony at Kanesh
c Hittite and neo-Hittite kingdoms and states
c Greek colonists arrive on the Aegean coast
c 900 Urartu kingdom in eastern Anatolia
c Phrygian, Lydian, Carian, and Lycian cultures in western Anatolia
c 660 Establishment of Byzantium by Byzas of Megara

44. Catalhuyok

46. The Hittite Empire at its Peak

47. The Lion Gate at Hattusa

49. The Peoples of Anatolia Part 2
c 550 The “Hayk” who would become known as Armenians are drawn into
the Median Empire
Persian Rule in Anatolia
546 Cyrus of Persia defeats Croesus, beginning of Persian rule in Anatolia
The Hellenistic Period in Anatolia
334 Alexander defeats the Persians at the battle of the Granicus River beginning of the Hellenistic period in Anatolia
130 Roman province of Asia established
66 Mithridatic wars end, Rome controls most of Anatolia AD
First century through fifth century – Roman imperial rule in Anatolia
40-56 journeys of St. Paul, first Christian community at Antioch
300 Christianity becomes the official religion of the Armenian state

51. Asia Minor as “Greek”

52. Sub-States

53. Roman (Biblical) Anatolia

54. Eastern Rome --Byzantium

55. Church as Museum

56. Turkish Museum Meze