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You may find below questions to get prepared for the final exam. Remember that only 20

out of 40 questions will be asked. You will need to find the answers yourself☹

Instructions: Answer the following questions by CIRCLING the correct option.

1. When did the RPP lose an election for the first time?

a) 1946 c) 1950
b) 1930 d) 1945
2. Which statement is TRUE about the 1960 Military coup?
a) It was organised by the high chief c) It was organised by a group of young
commander. officers.
b) It was organised by the RPP. d) It was a NATO initiative.
3. Who took the control over the country after the 1960 Military coup?
a) The Democrat Party d) The Republican Peasants' Nation
b) The RPP Party
c) National Unity Committee
4. Which statement is TRUE about the decisions that the NUC took in 1961?
a) Transition to Parliamentarian system
b) National Unity Committee continued to rule the country.
c) The RPP was appointed to rule the country.
d) The elections went immediately into effect.
5. Which of the following party DID NOT join the 1961 elections?
a) The New Turkey Party c) The Republican Peasants' Nation
b) The RPP Party
d) The Democrat Party
6. Which party got the highest votes in the 1961 elections?
a) The Justice Party c) The New Turkey Party
b) The RPP d) The Republican Peasants' Nation
Party
7. On 27 May 1960 a declaration was read by …............................... saying that the
armed forces had taken over the administration.
a) Celal Bayar c) İsmet İnönü
b) Alparslan Türkeş d) Cemal Madanoğlu
8. Which of the following incident is NOT among the foreign crises that Turkey
encountered in the 1960’s?
a) The Cyprus issue c) The Jupiter Missiles
b) The Johnson Letter d) The 1960 Military Coupe
9. Which countries were the guarantors of the agreements signed by the Greek and
Turkish Cypriots in 1960s?
a) France-Italy-Britain c) Turkey-Greece-Britain
b) Turkey-the USA-Britain d) Greece-Britain-Germany
10. Northern Cyprus was taken by a military intervention in ………………. and it
became a formally independent Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 1983.
a) 1974 c) 1983
b) 2004 d) 1997

11. The new constitution was subjected to a referendum on 7 November 1982 and
…………………………. automatically became the 7th President of Turkey.
a) Turgut Özal c) Bülent Ecevit
b) Süleyman Demirel d) Kenan Evren
12. Which of the following party DID NOT join the 1983 elections?
a) Turgut Özal’s MP c) Turgut Sunalp’s NDP
b) Necdet Calp’s PP d) Bülent Ecevit’s RPP
13. The ban of the former politicians of the 1970’s was lifted after a(n) ………………….
a) Presidential Amnesty c) Election
b) Referendum d) Supreme Court’s decision
14. Why did Necip Torumtay, the Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Turkey,
resign in 1991?
a) Because of Özal’s decision of standing against Iraq in the Gulf War.
b) Because he wanted to become the president.
c) Because he was planning a military coup which failed.
d) Because of his old age.
15. Who became the 8th President of Turkey after Turgut Özal’s death?
a) Erdal İnönü c) Süleyman Demirel
b) Tansu Çiller d) Yıldırım Akbulut
16. Who became the new leader of Motherland Party and the new prime minister of
Turkey after Turgut Özal?
a) Yıldırım Akbulut c) Süleyman Demirel
b) Mesut Yılmaz d) Tansu Çiller
17. Which party formed a coalition with the Motherland Party (ANAP) and Nationalist
Action Party (MHP) in the 1999 elections?
a) Justice and Development Party (AK Parti)
b) The Welfare Party (Refah Partisi)
c) Party of the True Path (Doğru Yol Partisi)
d) Party of the Democratic Left (Demokratik Sol Partisi)
18. Which incident caused the first crise between the JP (AK Party) and the USA?
a) USA’s invasion of Iraq c) 1 March authorization for use of US
b) 9/11 Terrorist Attacks military force
d) USA’s hegemonic foreign policy
19. Despite the memorandum by the armed forces, AK Party received an overwhelming
amount of votes in the 2007 elections and …………………….. was elected as the 11th
President of Turkey.
a) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan c) Ahmet Davutoğlu
b) Abdullah Gül d) Binali Yıldırım
20. When did Turkey officially apply to the European Community (EC)?
a) 1967 c) 1999
b) 1987 d) 2004

21. What is NOT TRUE about the 1946 elections?

a) The DP received the highest votes.
b) It was the first multi-party election.
c) It was based on a one-tier system.
d) There was no guarantee of secrecy during voting.
e) Only two parties joined the election.
22. Which statement is NOT TRUE about the 1960 Military coup?
a) All Democrat Party members were sentenced to death.
b) Menderes,Polatkan and Zorlu were executed.
c) The Democrat Party was banned from politics.
d) New parties were founded.
e) The President was not executed due to his age.
23. Which statement is TRUE about the 1960 Military coup?
a) A new Constitution was written.
b) DP members were pardoned.
c) İsmet İnönü became President.
d) The plotters were executed.
e) Türkeş became Prime Minister.
24. The ………………won a landslide victory in the elections of October 1965, gaining
an absolute majority of the votes cast (52.9 per cent) and of seats in the assembly.
a) The Justice Party
b) New Turkey Party
c) The Republican People’s Party
d) The Workers' Party of Turkey
e) The Republican Peasants' Nation Party
25. Bülent Ecevit defined the position of The Republican People’s Party as ……………
a) Left of centre
b) Socialist
 c) Nationalist
d) Conservatist
e) Democrat
26. On ……………….. the Chief of General Staff handed the prime minister, Süleyman
Demirel, a memorandum, which amounted to an ultimatum by the armed forces.
a) 12 March 1971
b) 27 May 1960
c) 12 September 1980
d) 28 February 1997
e) 22 February 1962
27. Whose Party formed the National Front Coalition after the 1973 and 1977 elections?
a) Demirel’s JP
b) Türkeş’s NAP
c) Ecevits’s RPP
d) Erbakan’s NSP
e) Bayar's DP
28. On the morning of 12 September 1980 the armed forces announced that they had
taken over political power because …………………………..
a) the state organs had stopped functioning.
b) the Parliament was suspended by the government
c) the political leaders could not form a coalition
d) Kenan Evren wanted to become the President
e) Demirel resigned the Prime Ministry Office
29. Which of the followings is NOT a result of the 12 September 1980 coup?
a) Appointment of a new President
b) Dissolvement of the parliament
c) Closure of political parties
d) Arrest of all political leaders
e) A new constitution
30. 1980 military coup was different from the 1960 military takeover because it was
organised by ……………………….
a) the High Command of the Army
b) a radical group of officers
c) radical leftist unions
d) radical rightist unions
e) the coalation government
31. Which of the following clause WAS NOT included in the 1982 Constitution?
a) banning of all trade unions
b) increasing the powers of the president
c) limiting the freedom of the press
d) limiting the rights and liberties of the individual
e) banning political strikes
32. In the 1983 elections ……………………. scored an overwhelming victory as a
rection to the military coup.
a) Turgut Özal’s Motherland Party
b) Necdet Calp’s Populist Party
c) Turgut Sunalp’s Nationalist Democracy Party
d) Bülent Ecevit’s Republican People’s Party
e) Demirel's True Path Party
33. In the late 1980s, the debate about ……………… concentrated on one issue in
particular:
a) the ban on wearing a head scarf in public buildings
b) nationalism
c) secularism
d) Kemalism
e) liberal economy

34. Who became the new leader of Motherland Party and the new prime minister of
Turkey after Turgut Özal?
a) Yıldırım Akbulut
b) Mesut Yılmaz
c) Süleyman Demirel
d) Tansu Çiller
e) Mehmet Keçeciler
35. Which politician was accused of inciting religious hatred and banned from politics
because of quoting from a poem by Ziya Gökalp?
a) Necmettin Erbakan
b) Turgut Özal
c) Süleyman Demirel
d) Tansu Çiller
e) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
36. On…………………………, the army presented the Erbakan- Çiller cabinet with a
long list of demands (officially ‘advice’) aimed at curbing the influence of the
Islamists in the economy, in education and inside the state apparatus.
a) 12 September 1980 c) 28 February 1997
b) 12 March 1971 d) 27 April 2007
f) 15 July 2016
37. The modernists of Erbakan’s Party broke away under the leadership of Abdullah
Gül and Tayyip Erdoğan to form the …………………………
a) The Welfare Party (Refah Partisi)
b) Party of Happiness (Saadet Partisi)
c) The Virtue Party (Fazilet Partisi)
d) Justice and Development Party (AK Parti)
e) National Order Party (Milli Nizam Partisi)
38. The 2002 election was won by the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) and it was
considered to be the victory of the ………………………. over the centralists.
a) İslamists
b) Secularists
c) Periphery
d) democrats
e) liberals
39. The AK Party government received a warning (ultimatum) from the armed forces
on the night of ……………… demanding a return to secularist ideas.
a) 27 April 2007
b) 28 February 1997
c) 25 December 2013
d) 15 July 2016
e) 1 March 2004
40. Which party won three elections consecutively apart from Democrat Party?
a) AK Party
b) MHP
c) ANAP
d) DYP
e) CHP
f) RPP