Turkish Politics&political Participation

Course content

The main purpose of this course is to analyse various factors that constitute Turkish politics, and the political parties within the Turkish political system. The course has three parts: first, Turkish political system with respect to factors affecting the political structure in Turkey, such as ideology, religion, culture, economy, development and consolidation of democracy. Second, the political parties within the Turkish political system are examined. Finally, the analysis of voting behaviour in terms of various criteria such as ethnicity, class, gender are discussed.