This course examines the economic transformations of Turkey from the early modern Ottoman Empire to the late 20th century. It explores local and global interactions that shaped these changes. The course provides a broad overview of key economic changes and policies over this long period. Topics are divided into three periods. First, the economic transformations of the early modern Ottoman Empire from the late 16th to the 19th century are studied. Second, changes in the economic infrastructure from the early 19th century to the end of World War I are analyzed. Finally the course covers the economic policies of the Modern Turkey, from the early Republican period to the integration into the global neo-liberal economic order after 1980.
