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POLS 435 ISSUES IN TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY
Term: 2012 - 13 / I
Instructor: Gün Kut
Schedule: TThTh 256, IB210 NH304 NH304
Office hours: By appointment, IB 505
Please read the following statement carefully and be advised:
- New Order: Diffusion of power,
ACADEMIC
designs
HONESTY
for the future.
(Nye ch. 8, 9)
The Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University
has adopted the following rules and regulations regarding academic honesty:
1. Copying work from others or giving and receiving answers/information during exams
either in written or oral form constitutes cheating.
2. Submitting any work done by somebody else as your own, using phrases, sentences or
sections from the work of an author without the proper citation, insufficient
acknowledgement of consulted works, all constitute plagiarism.
3. Plagiarism and cheating are serious offenses, and will result in:
a) an automatic “F” for the assignment or the exam
b) an oral explanation before the Departmental Ethics Committee
c) losing the opportunity to request and receive any references from the entire faculty
d) losing the opportunity to apply in exchange programs
e) losing the prospects of becoming a student assistant or a graduate assistant in the
department
The students may further be sent to the University Ethics committee or be subject to
disciplinary action.
This course is designed as a seminar on current issues in Turkey’s foreign relations,
focusing on foreign policy priorities of whichever government is currently in power.
The seminar is primarily based on individual research by students organized in
working groups, the results of which are going to be presented and discussed throughout the
semester. Each group is going to be assigned a topic from a list of priority areas in Turkish
foreign policy as discussed and adopted by the class, to be presented according to the
schedule below.
Every other week, students will submit and distribute a one-page editorial in class, on
a topic related to either one of the issues tob be discussed in this period. A scholarly paper on
the assigned topic is expected from each student at the end of the semester. Grading will be
based on the editorials (25%), presentation material (25%), and the final paper (50 %).
Extensive reading is required for a succesful coursework. Naturally, following current
issues will be based on monitoring closely the media, the web sites of relevant foreign

ministries and other official agencies, think tanks, and academic journals and other sources,
which must be reflected in the bibliography of the final paper.
The topics and the order of presentations are scheduled as follows:
1- Crisis in Syria
RAMAZAN YILDIZ r.yildiz@student.maastrichtuniversity.nl
UĞUR YUVARLAK ugur.yuvarlak@boun.edu.tr
2- Relations with the EU
UFUK TÜRKKAN ufuk.turkkan@boun.edu.tr
YUSUF UTMA yusuf.utma@boun.edu.tr
SUZANNE VAN DE BEEK suzannevandebeek@gmail.com
AUDREY ANN WILLIAMS audrey-williams@uiowa.edu
3- Relations with the EU
MADINA SHAIMERGENOVA madina.shaimerge@boun.edu.tr
NESİBE HİCRET SOY hicret.soy@boun.edu.tr
SZABOLCS SZALAY szalay.89@gmail.com
ÖZGÜR TOMAKİN ozgur.tomakin@boun.edu.tr
4- Relations with Iran
ALEXA KERRY SARMANIAN aksarma@bu.edu
MARIA THERESIA SCHNEIDER schneider.theresia@gmx.de
SEYFULLAH SEMERCİ seyfullah.semerci@boun.edu.tr
ALİ YASİN SERDAR aliserdar88@gmail.com
5- Relations with Iraq
MERVE ORAL merve.oral@boun.edu.tr
BÜŞRA NUR ÖZGÜLER nur.ozguler@boun.edu.tr
HİLAL ÖZTAŞ hilal.oztas@boun.edu.tr
YİĞİT CEM ÖZTÜRK yigitcem.ozturk@boun.edu.tr
6- Relations with Israel
FLORIAN LUDTKE f.ludtke@student.maastrichtuniversity.nl
PABLO PASCUAL MAS MUNOZ pablopmasm@gmail.com
ÖNDERHAN METE onderhan.mete@boun.edu.tr
PAULINA MARIE MURATORE paulinamuratore11@gmail.com
7- Relations with North Africa
FERHAN KUNDURACIOĞLU ferhan.kunduracioglu@boun.edu.tr
SARP KURGAN sarp.kurgan@boun.edu.tr
ALEV IRMAK KURTULMUŞ irmakkurtulmus@gmail.com
RACHEL JOY LENTZ rlentz@eastern.edu
8- Relations with the Caucasus region
PHILIPP AEPLER aepler.p@web.de
İBRAHİM ENES AKSU enesaksubjk@gmail.com
HRISTO HRABROV ALEXIEV alexiev2@illinois.edu
TANGI SCOTT ARVEILER MOISAN tangi.arveiler@live.fr

9- Relations with Russia
AYFER BARUTÇUOĞLU ayfer.barutcuoglu@boun.edu.tr
ÖMER BAYRAKTAR omer.bayraktar@boun.edu.tr
JESPER KJAERSGAARDS BIRCH jesperkbirch@gmail.com
ROBERT BRAUNS r.brauns@gmx.net
10- Relations with IGOs
ALEJANDRO CIORDIA MORANDEIRA alexciordia@gmail.com
SAADET BİLGE COŞKUN bilge.coskun@boun.edu.tr
ÇAĞDAŞ ÇITIRIKKAYA cagdas.citirikkaya@boun.edu.tr
YENER ÇAĞLA ÇİMENDERELİ cagla.cimendereli@boun.edu.tr
11- Turkey’s economic relations
ESMA DALP esma.dalp@boun.edu.tr
SAMUEL ALEXANDER DAVID DECKER saddecker@googlemail.com
GÖKÇE DÖNMEZ gokce.donmez@boun.edu.tr
ANNA LOU DREMEL a.l.dremel@student.utwente.nl
12- Turkey and the Arab Spring
ÖMER FARUK ERBAŞ omerferbas@gmail.com
FATİH EROL erol.fatih@windowslive.com
MARTHA FARAG AZMY FARAG GENDY martha.gendy@scienses-po.org
NAZIM ISGANDAROV nazim.isgandarov@boun.edu.tr
13- Relations with the Balkans
ELNUR ISMAYILOV elnur.ismayilov@boun.edu.tr
INEBORG MARK JACOBSEN misse_1987@hotmail.com
TUĞBA KARA tugba.kara2@boun.edu.tr
OZAN KARAAYAK ozan.karaayak@boun.edu.tr
14- Turkey’s security issues
YUNUS EMRE KARAN emre.karan@boun.edu.tr
SEREN SELVİN KORKMAZ selvin.korkmaz@boun.edu.tr
GJORGJI KOSTOJCINOSKI gjorgji.kostojcinoski@boun.edu.tr
ZEYNEP KOYUNCU zeynep.koyuncu@yahoo.fr