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BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON TURKEY Internationalization for Turkish: Dotted and Dotless Letter “I” http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/turkish-i18n.html Many software and web applications that are already internationalized and successfully support many languages often suffer catastrophic failure when they add support for the Turkish language. This page explains the difficulty of supporting the Turkish language and typical solutions. RESOURCES ON ISTANBUL Istanbul: Official Website http://www.ibb.gov.tr/en-US/Pages/Home_Page.aspx This website has information specifically on the city of Istanbul, including recent news developments, information about organizations in the city, weather, tourist information, photo galleries, and information about the Mayor of Istanbul. Video: Welcome to Istanbul http://blip.tv/file/585995 This is a link to a short video montage that describes the city of Istanbul, Turkey through visual means. Video: Istanbul http://www.veyselgencten.com/istanbul%20by%20veysel%20gencten.html Time-lapse video of various locations in Istanbul by Veysel Gencten. EDUCATION Turkish Educational System http://www.columbia.edu/cu/tsa/tr-info/edu.system.html The goal of the Turkish national education system could be summer up as being one where all individuals of the state are gather together as an inseparable whole, united in national consciousness and thinking…who through their skills contribute to the prosperity of society and are instrumental in making the Turkish nation a creative and distinguished member of the world. Turkey: Educational Sector Study (2006) http://www.worldbank.org.tr/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/ECAEXT/TURKEYEXTN/0,,contentMDK:208541 33~pagePK:141137~piPK:141127~theSitePK:361712,00.html The Education Sector Study from the World Bank seeks to contribute to the current dialogue among researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders regarding the creation of a coherent, sector-wide strategy for improving Turkey’s pre-university education system. The study is conveniently divided into chapters and includes comments made concerning different aspects of Turkey’s educational system. Republic of Turkey Ministry of National Education http://www.meb.gov.tr/english/indexeng.htm Link leads to several annual statistical reports on the state of education in Turkey. Reports are largely bilingual (English and Turkish). Structure of the Turkish Education System http://www.disiliskiler.sakarya.edu.tr/master2.pdf This two-page guide contains technical data on the structure of the Turkish education system (including grading scale and requirements); page two contains a flow chart showing how the Turkish educational system is organized. World Affairs Council Resource Packet: What the Rest of the World can Learn from Turkey Today – March 20, 2012 6
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON TURKEY Can Turkey Serve As A Model Democracy? RECOMMENDED READING LIST AND OTHER RESOURCES ON TURKEY * * May be requested from the Turkish Coalition of America free of charge for libraries and classroom use by sending a request to info@tc-america.org. The Wall Street Journal: Turkish Lessons for the Arab Spring (06/04/11) Essential http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303714704576383363787058314.html Reading List Turkish History: FINDLEY, This article Carter is an Vaughn. OP-ED. Turkey's Justice and Development Party, a coalition of Islamists and The conservatives Turks in World known History. as New the AKP, York: won Oxford the University country's Press, general 2004. elections for the third consecutive time … LEWIS, The AKP Bernard. is now the longest-serving government since Turkey became a multi-party democracy in 1946. The And Emergence it makes of the Modern party's Turkey. bumpy, New decade-long York: Oxford marriage University of political Press, 2001 Islam (3rd and edition) democracy worth a closer LEWY, look, Guenter. especially given the popular upheavals rippling through other Muslim-majority countries in the The Middle Armenian East. Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide. Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Study, November 2005.** MANGO, In The Andrew. Arab Spring, Watch Turkey (01/05/12) ATATURK: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/in-the-arab-spring-watch-<strong>turkey</strong>.html?pagewanted=all The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey. Overlook Press, August The Arab 2002 Spring (reprint has edition). vastly weakened the Arab states, leaving them open to fragmentation, increased MANGO, federalism Andrew. and outside penetration. With hindsight, 2011 may come to represent as sharp a rupture in The the Turks political Today. landscape London: John of the Murray, Middle November East as 1919 2004. did. (OP-ED) MCCARTHY, Justin. Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922. Darwin Press, March 1996.** MCCARTHY, Polity IV Country Justin. Report: Turkey (02/10) Forced http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/tur2.htm Migration and Mortality in the Ottoman Empire, an Annotated Map. ** Turkish Polity Coalition IV ranks of countries America, according 2010. to type of government. Countries are scored from -10 (absolute MCCARTHY, monarchy) Justin. to +10 (consolidated democracy) Polity IV recommends a three-part categorization of The “autocracies” Turk in America: (-10 The to -6), Creation “anocracies” of Enduring (mixed Prejudice. regimes with The democratic University of elements) Utah Press, (-52010. to +5…), ** and “democracies” (+6-+10). According to this report, Turkey is a democracy and ranks +7.5, the highest Essential Curriculum Guides and other Teaching Material on Turkey ranking of a Muslim-majority country in the Middle East. (Report published 2/10, from data analyzed Turkey and the Turks: Educational Resource Guide: Justin McCarthy and Carolyn McCarthy, 2010.** Turkish Cultural through 2008). Foundation Memphis in May Festival’s Salute to Turkey, Educational Programs Christian Science Monitor: Political Islam is Here to Stay (02/09/11) http://www.memphisinmay.org/edu_resources.htm .For a copy of the curriculum guide prepared by Memphis in http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0209/Political-Islam-is-here-to-stay-US-mustaccept-and-adjust May, please contact director@turkishculture.org Many Westerners fear the rise of Islamic Further [The] Reading bottom list: line is that political Islam, in some form, will be a regimes, thinking they'll resemble Iran. History/Politics: significant factor in much of the Arab world and beyond. U.S. But Turkey is the rule; Iran is the AKSIN, foreign Sina. policy Turkey must from come Empire to grips to Revolutionary with this emerging Republic: reality. The Emergence exception. of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to the Present. Its approach New York must University reflect an Press, understanding October 2006. of how CAHEN, contemporary Claude.The political Formation Islam of came Turkey: about The and Seljukit how democratic Sultanat of governments Rum: Eleventh rooted to Fourteenth in its principles Century. will New York, 2001. behave. FINKEL, Caroline. Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923. London: John Murray, 2006. MCCARTHY, Washington Justin. Post: The Turkey’s Ottoman Bad Peoples Example and the on End Democracy of Empire. and Hodder Authoritarianism Arnold, April 2001. (03/10/11) POPE, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031005620.html Hugh. Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World. Overlook Press, May 2005. SALT, Just Jeremy. at the moment The Unmaking that Turkey of the is Middle being East. held University up as a model of California Arab Press, states 2008. emerging from SHAW, authoritarianism, Stanford J., KURAL, its claim Ezel. to be History the Muslim of the world's Ottoman leading Empire democracy and Modern is in Turkey. danger. Volume Don't II: take Reform, it from Revolution and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey 1808-1975. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. World Affairs Council Resource Packet: What the Rest of the World can Learn from Turkey Today – March 20, 2012 7
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