Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	The Issue of Periodization of Ottoman History: new approaches and new sources on The Golden Age Concept and the failed Paradigm of Regression
Week - 2	The change in 17th and 18th centuries: the administrational, financial transformation experienced and an overwiev of the events in the course of 1699-1768
Week - 3	The War of 1768-74: The Reasons, Its Course and the function of Crimea
Week - 4	“Turkish Stupitidy Russian Skills”: a new interpretation of Küçük Kaynarca
Week - 5	The goals of Russia: the politics of Katerina the 2nd, international conjuncture and the new war: the war of 1787-92
Week - 6	The war policies of the Ottoman ruler, grand vizier and commander in chief of the period and their effects on the course of war; the qualities of the Ottoman army; decentralization in administration, finances and military
Week - 7	The course of Ottoman-French relations in Selim the 3rd’s period, changing Ottoman-Russian-British relations, the transformed perception of West in the Ottoman
Week - 8	The occupation of Egypt: the beginning of changing the Middle East’s fate process, reflections of the French Revolution
Week - 9	The period of Mahmut the 2nd; The War of 1806-12 and the developments that affected the course of the war: Napoleon’s alliance attempts
Week - 10	The Balkan Uprisings, the development of the Issue of Straits, the founding of the State of Greece and its reflections on Europe
Week - 11	The Rebellion of Egypt and Mehmet Ali: the change in Ottoman-British-Russian relations
Week - 12	moving towards the War of 1853-6: The Issue of Refugees, The Issue of Sacred Places, the policies of Ali and Fuat Pasha, The Treaty of Paris: The Admission of the Ottoman in the Council of Europe, The Imperial Reform Edict, Foreign Indebtment
Week - 13	the developments in the Balkans and Middle East during the course of 1856-1878: the issues of Eflak Boğdan, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Crete and the resolution processes
Week - 14	The War of 1877-78 and the Treaty of Berlin