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The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey

Year 2020, Volume: 75 Issue: 1, 279 - 314, 20.02.2020
https://doi.org/10.33630/ausbf.587411

Abstract

This study aims to examine the case of the Social Democratic Populist Party (Sosyaldemokrat Halkçı Parti – SHP) that functioned as the major representative of the social democratic ideology in Turkey under highly extraordinary conditions of the post-1980 coup political atmosphere until 1995. Realizing the necessity of taking this critically important phase in the evolution of Turkish social democratic thought into account, the major argument of this paper is that even if the SHP spent a remarkable amount of effort for achieving its ultimate target of evolving into a European-style, ‘genuine’ social democratic party, it ultimately failed to reach this end due to three interrelated factors, such as changing political realities in the domestic and European contexts during the 1980s, the intra-party turmoil within the SHP, and the poor performance of the SHP in power. In relation to this core argument, the ideological decline of the SHP is claimed to have a direct impact on the successive electoral defeats and ideological drifts of the CHP, as its successor, in the following years.

References

  • Referans 1 Ayata, Sencer and Ayşe Güneş-Ayata (2007), “The Center-Left Parties in Turkey”, Turkish Studies, 8 (2): 211-232.

Sosyaldemokrat Halkçı Parti: Türkiye’de Sosyal Demokrasinin Yakın Geçmişi Üzerine Yeniden Düşünmek

Year 2020, Volume: 75 Issue: 1, 279 - 314, 20.02.2020
https://doi.org/10.33630/ausbf.587411

Abstract

Bu çalışma, 1980 darbesi sonrası siyasi atmosferin hayli olağanüstü koşulları altında, Türkiye’de sosyal demokrat ideolojinin başlıca temsilcisi olarak ortaya çıkan ve 1995’e kadar varlığını sürdüren
Sosyaldemokrat Halkçı Parti (SHP) vakasını incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Türkiye’deki sosyal demokrat düşüncenin evriminde kritik önem taşıyan bu safhayı dikkate almanın gerekliliğinin bilincinde olan bu makalenin temel savı, SHP’nin, nihai amacı olan, Avrupa tipi, ‘gerçek’ bir sosyal demokrat parti haline gelebilmek için hatırı sayılır bir çaba harcadığı halde, 1980li yıllarda Avrupa’da ve Türkiye’de değişen siyasi ortam, SHP içindeki parti içi kargaşa ve SHP’nin iktidardaki düşük performansı gibi birbiriyle bağlantılı üç etken nedeniyle son kertede bu amacına ulaşmada başarısız olduğudur. Bu temel savla bağlantılı olarak, SHP’nin ideolojik açıdan gerilemesinin, SHP’nin halefi olan CHP’nin sonraki yıllarda art arda gelen seçim yenilgilerine ve ideolojik kaymalarına doğrudan etkisi olduğu iddia edilmektedir. 

References

  • Referans 1 Ayata, Sencer and Ayşe Güneş-Ayata (2007), “The Center-Left Parties in Turkey”, Turkish Studies, 8 (2): 211-232.
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Research Articles
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Uğur Tekiner 0000-0002-7478-3891

Publication Date February 20, 2020
Submission Date February 1, 2018
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 75 Issue: 1

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APA Tekiner, U. (2020). The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi, 75(1), 279-314. https://doi.org/10.33630/ausbf.587411
AMA Tekiner U. The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey. SBF Dergisi. February 2020;75(1):279-314. doi:10.33630/ausbf.587411
Chicago Tekiner, Uğur. “The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 75, no. 1 (February 2020): 279-314. https://doi.org/10.33630/ausbf.587411.
EndNote Tekiner U (February 1, 2020) The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 75 1 279–314.
IEEE U. Tekiner, “The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey”, SBF Dergisi, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 279–314, 2020, doi: 10.33630/ausbf.587411.
ISNAD Tekiner, Uğur. “The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 75/1 (February 2020), 279-314. https://doi.org/10.33630/ausbf.587411.
JAMA Tekiner U. The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey. SBF Dergisi. 2020;75:279–314.
MLA Tekiner, Uğur. “The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey”. Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi, vol. 75, no. 1, 2020, pp. 279-14, doi:10.33630/ausbf.587411.
Vancouver Tekiner U. The Social Democratic Populist Party: Revisiting the Recent Past of Social Democracy in Turkey. SBF Dergisi. 2020;75(1):279-314.