jajaja Flashcards
1699
Treaty of Karlowitz
1774
Treaty of Kücük Kaynarca
1908
Young Turk Revolution
1911
Turkish Hearths
1915
Start of Armenian genocide
1920
Treaty of Sevres
1919-23
Turkish War of Independence
1923
Treaty of lausanne
Population Exchange
1924
Yüzellilikler
Turkish constitution
1925
Law on Headress (Fez to Hat)
1926
New civil code (?)
1928
Alphabet Reform
Abolition of Islam as state religion/religious instructions in school
1930
Turkish Bank
1931
Turkish Hearths done, TTK (history society) gets founded
1932
Peoples Houses
TDK gets founded (language society)
LAnguage Reform
1934
Law on prohibited garments
Law of Surnames, Women voting rights
1938
Death of Atatürk
1938-50
Inönü is the second president, still one-party-rule
1940
Village institute and Peoples Rooms (?)
1945
Turkey enters UN –> US pressure for democratization
- Memorandum of the Four gets rejected
1946
First democratic elections –>DP victory in Parliament, but rigged CHP still in charge and president inönü
1947
Turkish development plan and “Law on Trade Unions”
1948-52
Marshall Plan 140 Million $, GDP 7% a year!
1950
Democratic party wins further over CHP, president is from DP
TEK is formed, (Turkish electrical corporation)
1952
Turkey enters NATO
1954
TTK (Turkish telecommunication corporation)
1957
Support for DP crumbles, opposition rises
1958
RNP and PP merge to form Republican Peasants nation party, Opposition gets very strong
1960
military coup leading to NUC reigning in “Second Turkish Republic”
Kemalist principles
republican, nationalist, popular, statist, secular and revolutionary - the six “principles of Kemalism
Important figures in pushing new narrative
: Ziya Gökalp “What is Turkism?”, Halide Adivar (feminist)
Triumvirate/Three Pashas
Cemal, Enver and Talaat Pasha
Atatürk zitat
“The peasant is the master of the nation” - Atatürk
Menderes zitat
“We believe our future is in the west.”
inönü zitat
“We can’t afford to be enemies with the West.