This course is a survey of the main currents and their selective representatives in Turkish political thought since 1908 such as liberalism, nationalism, socialism, feminism, and political Islam. May be taken by graduate students as a taught course (POLS 594), or alternatively as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.