Information Package / Course Catalogue
Ataturk and the Enlightenment
Course Code: AI305
Course Type: Non Departmental Elective
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: English
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

To reveal the factors which created Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s philosophy through expressing how the Enlightenment occured in the world and the steps taken in Turkey from the 15th until the 20th in the name of that enlightenment and modernization.

Course Content

Starting from the Turkish reorganisations and reforms of tanzimat period, this course covers twentieth century Turkish modernisation with Atatürk’s reforms. A particular theoretical framework is drawn in the essence of interrelations between Atatürk and Turkish Modernisation. Atatürk’s six principles are examined and their political provisions are studied.

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Learning Outcomes
1.Introducing the generation of the Republic with the steps taken about the enlightenment, and learning the concepts about enlightenment.
2.Revealing the effects of the enlightenment in the world on Turkey.
3.Getting to know the environment Ataturk grew up and its affects on his personality.
4.Undrestanding how the European Enlightenment occured and its outcomes.
5.Turkish modernisation from tanzimat to persent day and Atatürk’s role in it.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.AYDEMİR, Ş.S. (1979) Tek Adam 1. Cilt, Remzi Kitapevi, İstanbul.
2.TİMUR, T. (1993) Türk Devrimi ve Sonrası, İmge Kitabevi.
3.Turan, Şerafettin. (1991). Türk Devrim Tarihi. Ankara: Bilgi Yayınevi.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Main concepts on Ataturk an the Turkish Revolution
Week 2 - Theoretical
The historical meaning of Kemalism
Week 3 - Theoretical
The factors that created Ataturk’s world of thinking
Week 4 - Theoretical
Westersn World and the Enlightenment
Week 5 - Theoretical
Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution
Week 6 - Theoretical
Anadolu İhtilali ve Atatürk
Week 7 - Theoretical
The reason why Ataturk wrote “the Speech”
Week 8 - Theoretical
The National Identity: Language-History-Culture and Ataturk
Week 9 - Intermediate Exam
Midterm Exam
Week 10 - Theoretical
Education and Ataturk in the Anatolian Englightenment
Week 11 - Theoretical
The overall objective of Ataturk: Modernization, Westernization adn Civilization
Week 12 - Theoretical
The principles that created Ataturk’s way of thinking (Republicanism, Nationalism, Republicanism, Statism, Secularism, Revolutionism
Week 13 - Theoretical
The books Ataturk read and wrote
Week 14 - Theoretical
Kemalism and globalisation.
Week 15 - Final Exam
Final Exam
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140228
Individual Work93027
Midterm Examination1718
Final Examination114115
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)78
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026