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ATA 621: The Young Turk Revolution and the Second Constitutional Period (Fall 2010)
Tuesday, 2:00-5:00 PM
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The present seminar is a survey course aiming to provide the students with a thorough understanding of the
Young Turks, their seizure of power and the nature of the socio-political system they tried to establish in the
decaying Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. Accordingly, it will present the period with a
systematic coverage of its political, social, ideological, economic and diplomatic aspects. The study of a large
amount of primary source material will ensure that the survey won’t suffer from the usual flaws proper to the
genre.
REQUIRED READING:
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
1) Regular class attendance, completion of reading assignments prior to class and participation in class
discussions (20 %),
2) Three short essays (10 % each),
3) One presentation (20 %),
4) One final research paper (30 %).
COURSE SCHEDULE:
Leskovikli Mehmet Rauf, İttihat ve Terakki Ne İdi? 2nd edn. (İstanbul, 1991), pp. 81-101.
Hasan Cemil Çambel, Makaleler, Hatıralar (Ankara, 1964), pp. 105-107.
M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Preparation for a Revolution. The Young Turks, 1902-1908 (Oxford, 2001), pp.
191-209.
İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı, “İkinci Meşrutiyetin Ne Suretle İlân Edildiğine dair Vesikalar”, Belleten,
XX, 77(1956): 103-174.
Tanin’s coverage of the municipal elections in İstanbul, August 1908.
“Mebuslarımızı nasıl seçeceğiz?”, Anadolu, September 19, 1908.
The political program of the CUP, October 6, 1908.
Hüseyin Kâzım Kadri, Meşrutiyet’ten Cumhuriyet’e Hatıralarım (İstanbul, 1991), pp. 63-67.
October 19: The Legal and Political Aspects of the New Regime:
October 26: The Committee of Union and Progress and Its Opponents:
Osmânlı İttihâd ve Terakkî Cem‘iyeti’nin 1327 senesi siyâsî programı (İstanbul, 1327).
Osmânlı İttihâd ve Terakkî Cem‘iyeti program ve nizâmnâmesidir (İstanbul, 1329), pp. 3-13.
Rıza Nur, Hürriyet ve Îtilâf Fırkası Nasıl Doğdu, Nasıl Öldü, 2nd edn. (İstanbul, 1996), pp. 19-40.
20 Mayıs sene 328’de sûret-i fevke’l-âdede in’ikâd ile sekiz gün devâm eden umûmî kongrede bâzı
fıkarâtı ta‘adîl edilen Hürriyet ve ‘Îtilâf Fırkası programı ve nizâmnâme-i dâhilîsi (İstanbul, 1328),
pp. 2-21.
Gwynne Dyer, “The origins of the ‘Nationalist’ Group of officers in Turkey, 1908-1918”, Journal of
Contemporary History, VIII, 4(1973): 121-164.
Isa Blumi, “Defying the State and Defining the State: Local Politics in Educational Reform in the
Vilayets of Manastir and Yanya, 1878-1912”, in Isa Blumi, Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire
(İstanbul, 2003), pp. 103-122.
Zeine N. Zeine, Arab-Turkish Relations and the Emergence of Arab Nationalism (Beirut, 1958), pp.
73-95.
Rashid Ismail Khalidi, “The 1912 Election Campaign in the Cities of Bilad al-Sham”, International
Journal of Middle East Studies, XVI, 4(1984): 461-474.
Vangelis Kechriotis, “Greek-Orthodox, Ottoman Greeks or Just Greeks? Theories of Coexistence in the
Aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution”, Études balkaniques, 2005, 1, pp. 51-71.
M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, “The Young Turks and the Arabs Before the Revolution of 1908”, in R. Khalidi et
alii eds., The Origins of Arab Nationalism (New York, 1991), pp. 31-49.
Akçuraoğlu Yusuf, “İttihâd-ı anâsır mes’elesi”, Sır’at-ı müstakîm, V, 121(December 29, 1910): 280-
283.
Ziya Gök Alp, “Üç cereyan”, Türk yurdu, III, 11(1913): 331-337.
Niyazi Berkes, Türkiye’de Çağdaşlaşma, 2nd edn. (İstanbul, 2002), pp. 429-472.
Zafer Toprak, Türkiye’de “Millî İktisat” (1908-1918) (Ankara, 1982), pp. 50-68.
Akçuraoğlu Yusuf, “1329 türk dünyası”, Türk yurdu, VI, 3(1914): 2098.
Akçuraoğlu Yusuf, “İktisâdî siyâset hakkında”, Türk yurdu, XII, 12(1917): 179-181.
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Akçuraoğlu Yusuf, “‘İttifak’a dâir”, in Akçuraoğlu Yusuf, Siyâset ve iktisâd hakkında birkaç hitâbe ve
makâle (İstanbul, 1924), pp. 21-32.
Mustafa Aksakal, “Not ‘by those old books of international law, but only by war’: Ottoman Intellectuals
on the Eve of the Great War”, Diplomacy and Statecraft, XV, 3(2004): 507-544.
Allan Cunningham, “The Wrong Horse? Anglo-Ottoman Relations before the First World War”, in E.
Ingram ed., Eastern Questions in the Nineteenth Century. Collected Essays of Allan Cunningham
(London, 1993), pp. 226-248.
Feroz Ahmad, “Great Britain’s Relations with the Young Turks 1908-1914”, Middle Eastern Studies,
II, 4(1966): 302-329.
Ahmed Emin, Turkey in the World War (New Haven, 1930), pp. 168-173 & 231-247.
Feroz Ahmad, “War and Society under the Young Turks, 1908-1918”, Review, XI, 2(1988): 265-286.
December 28: Mehmet VI Vahdettin and the End of the Constitutional Monarchy.
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Talât Paşa, Hatıralarım ve Müdafaam.
Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk, Vatan Hizmetinde.
Zafer Toprak, İttihad-Terakki ve Cihan Harbi.
Ulrich Trumpener, Germany and the Ottoman Empire.
Tarık Zafer Tunaya, Türkiye’de Siyasal Partiler, 2nd edn., vols. I & III.
Frank Weber, Eagles on the Crescent.
M. A. Yapp, The Making of the Modern Near East.