THE FATHERLAND’S FRONT IN ESKİŞEHİR
Abstract
There had been serious problems between the govenment and the opposititon parties in Turkey and political uncertainties emerged in the country in the 1957. What is causing these problems to ocur and opposition parties done war against the Democratic Party (DP) was a political structure which called power unity. Upon this, the Democratic Party’s founder and the prime minister Adnan Menderes declared that a fatherland front would be established which all citizens could take part in against the power unity in his speech in Manisa in october in the 1958. Acording to local and national newspapers and arcive documents, the fatherland front had attracted peoples attention and a large number of people involved in this front. On these dates as in most cities of newspaper Eskisehir’s newspapers indicate that there were great participants to the Democratic Party and the fatherland front in Eskisehir. Thanks to the work of the Democratic party thousands of people registered in the quarters or the townships belonging to the Democratic Party in Eskisehir in the1959. Especially the tradesman organizations and big families of the city who resigning from the Republican Peoples Party and the other opposition parties joined the Democratic Party in Eskisehir. Thus, the number of member of the Democratic Party increased in Eskisehir. There were also those who joined the Republican People's Party from the Democratic Party during this period. This naturally had led to inter-party conflicts. In this context, by taking advantage of from the telegrams sent to the Prime Minister and from newspaper news the situation of the fatherland front in Eskisehir have been extensively studied.
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Bilal Tunç
Türkiye
Publication Date
May 18, 2017
Submission Date
November 24, 2016
Acceptance Date
April 4, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Number: 52