TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Hasan Ünal Professor Banu Eligür
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) have knowledge about the historical process of Turkey's Middle Eastern policies. 2) have knowledge abour current problems and areas of cooperation and analyze current developments on this basis. 3) analyze the effective factors on the relationship of Turkey's to the Middle East countries. 4) understand shifts in various periods in Turkey's approach to the region and its reasons.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	No recommended optional programme components.
COURSE DEFINITION	The problems that Turkey has faced in the Middle East since the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, the attitudes it had to take in the light of the current domestic and foreign conditions, the balances it had to watch, and the problems peculiar to the Middle East and their effects on domestic and foreign policies will be explained. The topics will be covered in terms of politics and diplomatic relations, especially in the last twenty-five to thirty years, emphasizing actual events and experiences, rather than in terms of political history.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Main features of the Middle East 2nd Week Middle East during the Ottoman Era 3rd Week Turkey's policies toward Middle East 4th Week Problems in the Middle East during Cold War and Turkey 5th Week Iran in Turkish foreign policy 6th Week Water issue 7th Week Iraq in Turkish foreign policy 8th Week Midterm 9th Week Operation Provide Comfort in Turkish foreign policy 10th Week Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process and Turkey 11th Week US intervention to Iraq and Turkey 12th Week Turkey's developing relations with Middle East 13th Week US' Greater Middle East Project and Turkey 14th Week Turkey's EU integration target and its policies toward Middle East
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Bernard Lewis, The Shaping of the Middle East, New York, Oxford University Pres, 1994, s. 3-23. Caesar E. Farah, "Arabs&Turks: Common Heritage, Common Destiny", Studies on Turkish-Arab Relations, İstanbul, Türk-Arap İlişkileir İncelemerli Vakfı, 1986, s. 61-75. Karl K. Barbir, "Memory, Heritage, and History: The Ottoman Legacy in the Arab World", Carl Brown (der.), Imperial Legacy, The Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East, New York, Columbia University Press, 1996, s. 100-114. Ferenc A. Vali, Bridge Across the Bosphorus, The Foreign Policy of Turkey, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971, s. 272-306. Mahmut Bali Aykan, "The Palestinian Question in Turkish Foreign Policy from the 1950s to the 1990s", International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 25, 1993, s. 91-110. Ömer Kürkçüoğlu, "Development of Turkish-Arab Relations: A Historical Appraisal", Ali L. Karaosmanoğlu ve Seyfi Taşhan (der.), Middle East, Turkey and the Transatlantic Alliance, Ankara, Foreign Policy Institute, 1987, s. 16-27. Atila Eralp, "Facing the Challenge, Post-Revolutionary Relations with Iran", Henri J. Barkey (der.), Reluctant Neighbor, Turkey's Role in the Middle East, Wash. D.C., US Institute of Peace Press, 1996, s. 93-112. İlter Turan, "Water and Turkish Foreign Policy", Lenore G. Martin ve Dimitris Keridis (der.), The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy, Cambridge, The MIT Press, 2004, s. 192-209. Phebe Marr, "Turkey and Iraq", Henri J. Barkey (der.), Reluctant Neighbor, Turkey's Role in the Middle East, Wash. D.C., US Institute of Peace Press, 1996, s. 45-69. Kemal Kirişçi, "Provide Comfort or Trouble: Operation Provide Comfort and Its Impact on Turkish Foreign Policy", Turkish Review of Middle East Studies, Annual 1994-95, No. 8, s. 43-67. Meliha Altunışık, "The Turkish-Israeli Rapprochement in the Post-Cold War Era", Middle Eastern Studies, April 2000, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 172-191. Ramazan Gözen, "Causes and Consequences of Turkey's Out-Of-War Position in the Iraq War of 2003, The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, No. 36, 2005, s. 73-99. H. Tarık Oğuzlu, "The "Turkomans" as a Factor in Turkish Foreign Policy", Turkish Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2002, 139-148. Meliha Benli Altunışık and Özlem Tür, "From Distant Neighbors to Partners? Changing Syrian-Turkish Relations", Security Dialogue, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2006, s. 229-248. Hüseyin Bağcı ve Bayram Sinkaya, "Büyük Ortadoğu Projesi ve Türkiye: AK Parti'nin Perspektifi", Akademik Ortadoğu, Cilt 1, Sayı 1, 2006, s. 21-37. Meliha Benli Altunışık, "The Turkish Model and Democratization in the Middle East", Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 1-2, Winter/Spring 2005, s. 45-63. Bülent Aras and Salih Bıçakçı, "Europe, Turkey and the Middle East: Is Harmonisation Possible?", East European Quarterly, Vol. XL, No. 3, September 2006, s. 367-381.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 25 Assignment 1 30 Total(%) 55 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 55 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 45 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 1 1 Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 2 28 Preparation for Final exam 1 30 30 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 25 25 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 1 1 Homework 1 25 25 Total Workload 152 Total Workload / 30 5,06 ECTS Credits of the Course 5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No