Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey
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Feroz Ahmad
Mustafa Kemal was totally opposed to collective leadership of the type that had prevailed under the Unionists, and he often criticized the CUP as a leaderless political body.
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Kemal Karpat
From 1931 onwards the RPP increasingly justified its hold on power by pointing to threats, some real, most imaginary, to the regime.
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Kemal Karpat
On the one hand, the RPP maintained a certain loyalty to the old elites’ historical concept of leadership while, on the other hand, it attempted to create a new political mechanism, that is, the modern party organization, and to imbue it with populist vision and democratic ideals while, at the same time, keeping it confined within the framework of the old elitist philosophy. The obvious conflict between elitism and democracy was solved ultimately in favour of the latter.
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The JP's policies were more moderate than its programme; for instance, the party never considered selling the state economic enterprises to the private sector.
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Feroz Ahmad
There is also a problem of terminology. Terms like democracy and liberal are used as though they had the same meaning and connotation in Turkey of the 1920s and of 1950s, (...) At the time, democracy and populism were treated as virtually synonymous.
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Ali Yaşar Sarıbay
The Turkish revolution was not definitely a social revolution aimed at realizing radical change in the existing social structure. (...) The immediate goal of the leaders of the Turkish revolution was not to change the peasants' fate fundamentally or to grant them increased political power. (...) As Frederick W. Frey has shown, the Turkish revolution exploited the divisions between the elite and the masses.
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Kemal Karpat
The populists were actually politically and socially progressive democrats, favoring free enterprise, while culturally they could be defined as traditionalists, some even as Islamists.
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