Book contents
- The Remaking of Republican Turkey
- The Remaking of Republican Turkey
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Nation Votes
- 2 Turkey Attends the American Classroom
- 3 Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia
- 4 Multipurpose Empire
- 5 Making the Past Modern
- 6 Ottomans, Arabs, and Americans
- 7 The Path to Progress and to God
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - A Nation Votes
Democratic Modernity for the Masses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2021
- The Remaking of Republican Turkey
- The Remaking of Republican Turkey
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Nation Votes
- 2 Turkey Attends the American Classroom
- 3 Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia
- 4 Multipurpose Empire
- 5 Making the Past Modern
- 6 Ottomans, Arabs, and Americans
- 7 The Path to Progress and to God
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 1 examines the immediate aftermath of Turkey’s 1950 elections, tracing the way both of the country’s major political parties incorporated democracy into their historical narratives and modernizing ambitions. The Democratic Party (DP), for its part, sought to convince voters that democracy would enable them to more effectively realize the populist and materialist promise of Kemalist modernization. Finding itself in opposition for the first time since the country’s founding, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) sought to take credit for the advent of democracy, while also embracing democratic ideals in their criticism of the DP. In doing so, they opened an ongoing debate about which Kemalist-era reforms the Turkish people had truly accepted.
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- The Remaking of Republican TurkeyMemory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire, pp. 12 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021