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 PashaAt Gallipoli

10 Mustafa Kemal – Nation BuilderLausanne

11 Mustafa Kemal - Diplomat

12 Mustafa Kemal President

13 Atatürk’s Reforms – “6 Arrows” 1924Mustafa 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 ManWife, Latife & 13 Adopted Daughters, including Sabiha, Zehra & Rukiye

16 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Icon

17 Funeral 9 Nov 38 – 9:05am

18 Atatürk – Cult of PersonalityHeykel nerede?

19 Parties represented in the current Parliament (Meclis) 2014Party 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 RelationsHuntington, “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 Interventions1960 – 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 1974-99Succeeded 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 1996-97Removed by the 28 February Movement

30 Turkey - Laiklik

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

32 Orhan Pamuk 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature2005 Prosecuted under Art. 301 for insulting Turkey

33 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

34 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan AKP

35 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan