Kemalism in Turkish politics
Subtitle: the Republican People's Party, secularism and nationalism
By: Sinan Ciddi.
Series: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780415475044; 9780203884744
Subjects: Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkey); Kemalism; Secularism -- Turkey; Nationalism -- Turkey; Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1918-1960
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: social democracy, Kemalism and the Republican people's party; title: Kemalism and the left; title: Mainstream left politics: "democratic left" ideology and the CHP; title: Appraising centre-left politics 1961-1980; title: The 12 September coup d'état and its aftermath: the displacement of centre left politics?; title: Accounting for the weakness of the centre-left in the 1990s: ideological considerations; title: A crisis of Kemalist modernity?; title: Three cases: the Alevis, trade unions and the urban vote; title: Revisionism: an anathema for the Turkish centre-left and the principle of "ideological adaptability"; title: Conclusion: the CHP: the continued projection of centrist politics?.