Gather as much evidence as possible from the year preceding the event you have selected and synthesize and analyze the evidence (both news accounts and any statistical data that may be relevant) to look for trends, themes, or patterns. This preliminary analysis should provide a clear, concise, and structured summary of the case you have selected. At a minimum, this section will include the statement of problem, the objectives of the paper, and your methodology for the final paper. You may include preliminary qualitative or quantitative assessments in this section depending on your case. This section will be approximately seven (7) pages double spaced.

Suggested Topic: How Turkey's conflict with the PKK is both affecting its status as a developed state, its economy, and the rest of the worlds view of it, as well as weather turkeys claims against the pkk are true, and if they are how the hostilities started.

If you have any other topics in mind, I would be glad to hear them.

Talk about turkeys war against the pkk, ISIS, the Syrian refugees, the imbalance in the government, and how it is affecting turkeys economy as well as government,

How much turkey is spending on the war in Syria

Talk about how employment and jobs have been effected by the their involvement in the war

Talk about how the worlds opinion on turkey is changing because of what they are doing

Talk about how the economy is being affected (spending money on the war, and foreign companies scared to invest)

Talk about how turkey wanted to be seen as a European country and how this may make the world view them differently