Kemalism in Turkish Politics

The Republican People's Party, Secularism and Nationalism

By Sinan Ciddi

Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics 

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Table of Contents

Introduction Social Democracy, Kemalism and the Republican People’s Party Part 1 1. Kemalism and the Left 2. Mainstream Left Politics: "Democratic Left" Ideology and the CHP 3. Appraising Centre-Left Politics 1961-1980 4. The 12 September Coup d’état and its Aftermath: The Displacement of Centre Left Politics? Part 2 5. Accounting for the Weakness of the Centre-left in the 1990s: Ideological Considerations 6. A Crisis of Kemalist Modernity? 7. Three Cases: The Alevis, Trade Unions and the Urban Vote 8. Revisionism: An Anathema for the Turkish Centre-Left and The Principle of ‘Ideological Adaptability’ Conclusion: The CHP: The Continued Projection of Centrist Politics?

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