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FRAGILE HEGEMONY, FLEXIBLE AUTHORITARIANISM, AND GOVERNING FROM BELOW: POLITICIANS' REPORTS IN EARLY REPUBLICAN TURKEY

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Murat Metinsoy
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This article scrutinizes election district and inspection district reports written by the deputies of the Turkish single-party government and the role of these reports in state decision making. Underscoring social discontent and the fragile hegemony of the new regime—both of which motivated the republican elite to monitor state and party administrations and public opinion—the article argues that the practice of reporting was neither a project of social engineering nor a practice peculiar to the Turkish state but rather a requirement of a polity concerned with the opinion of its citizens. In the absence of direct political participation of the people in government, the reports mediated between the state and society. Contrary to conventional accounts of the single-party period, the article argues that the republican elite did not govern the country through top-down decrees but instead sought to ascertain public opinion and its own administrative defects so as to consolidate its fragile hegemony. Based on these findings, I propose that we redefine the early republican state as a flexible authoritarian regime that was not detached from the society.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , November 2011 , pp. 699 - 719
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Author's note: I warmly thank Beth Baron, Sara Pursley, the anonymous reviewers and editors of IJMES, Kathryn Kranzler, Asım Karaömerlioğlu, Cengiz Kırlı, Levent Ürer, Sinan Turan, and Elif Mahir Metinsoy for their invaluable comments and contributions.

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80 Summaries of the Report by Fahrettin Tiritoğlu, Inspector of Gaziantep District and Deputy of Balıkesir, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/510.2048.1 (10 February 1943).

81 From the Minister of Public Works, Sırrı Day, to the RPP Secretary-General, PMRA-CRPP, 490. 1/510.2048.1 (25 May 1943).

82 From The Second Bureau to The Fourth Bureau, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/510.2059.1 (11 March 1940).

83 From the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance to the RPP General Secretariat, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/510.2050.1 (3 February 1942).

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87 1930 Journey Report of Gaziantep Deputy Ali Cenani, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/1454.34.3.

88 Reports about the Situation of the RPP Organizations in Some Provinces and about Their Reorganization and Enlargement, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/724.477.1 (7 February1931).

89 1930 Journey Report of Gaziantep Deputy, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/1454.34.3.

90 Eskişehir Election District Reports, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/651.165.1 (20 November 1934).

91 For RPP Edirne Deputy Mehmet Faik's Report about the RPP Organizational Structure in Edirne dated 20.01.1931, see Reports about the Situation of the RPP Organizations in Certain Provinces and about Their Reorganization and Enlargement, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/729.478.1 (16 March 1931).

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98 “Vergi Bakayasının Tasfiyesine Dair Kanun” (The Law on the Discharge of the Arrears of Taxes), 4 July 1934, Law No. 2566. Resmi Gazete 2750 (12 July 1934): 4126–128. According to this law, half of the peasants’ debts to the Agricultural Bank was to be forgiven on the condition of payment of the remaining half.

99 From the RPP Secretary General to the Minister of Agriculture, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/726.485.1 (22 February 1936).

100 From the Minister of Agriculture to the RPP Secretary General, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/726.485.1 (14 August 1936).

101 From the RPP Secretary General to the Provincial Chief of the RPP and to the Ministry of Economy, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/726.485.1 (1 January 1936).

102 From the Secretary General to the Minister of Public Works, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/726.485.1 (15 January 1936).

103 From Balıkesir Deputy Hacim Muhiddin to the RPP Secretary General, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/1438.3.2 (20 March 1933).

104 For the protective albeit limited legal regulations regarding labor, see Makal, Ahmet, Türkiye'de Tek Partili Dönemde Çalışma İlişkileri, 1920–1946 (Ankara: İmge Kitabevi, 1999), 419–30Google Scholar.

105 Report of Istanbul Deputies, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/662.218.2 (6 November 1942 and 7 September 1943); Reports of Istanbul Deputies Submitted to the RPP General Secretariat, PMRA-CRPP, 490.1/663.219.1 (5 November 1945).

106 Metinsoy, İkinci Dünya Savaşı’nda Türkiye, 66–132.