03280oam 2200685Ia 450 991081108780332120240418102503.01-134-02559-91-281-97725-X97866119772520-203-88474-4(CKB)1000000000702513(EBL)380838(OCoLC)437241571(SSID)ssj0000187057(PQKBManifestationID)11167873(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187057(PQKBWorkID)10252970(PQKB)11424048(MiAaPQ)EBC380838(Au-PeEL)EBL380838(CaPaEBR)ebr10277455(CaONFJC)MIL197725(EXLCZ)99100000000070251320080619d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKemalism in Turkish politics the Republican People's Party, secularism and nationalism /Sinan Ciddi1st ed.London ;New York Routledge20091 online resource (209 pages)Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics0-415-61281-0 0-415-47504-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-193) and index.Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Note on spellings; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Social democracy, Kemalism and the Republican People's Party; Part I The formative aspects of Turkish social democracy; 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 II The electoral weakness of leftism after the post-Cold War period5 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?; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis book is concerned with Turkey's political evolution, the role of Kemalism, and why a social democratic alternative has never fully developed. Concentrating on the electoral weaknesses of the Turkish centre-left, represented by the Republican People's Party (CHP), Sinan Ciddi examines the roles of nationalism and the political establishment and the role of Kemalist ideology.Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics;10KemalismSecularismTurkeyNationalismTurkeyTurkeyPolitics and government1918-1960Kemalism.SecularismNationalism320.509561324.2561/072324.2561072Ciddi Sinan1670952MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811087803321Kemalism in Turkish politics4033139UNINA