Research Article

Roots of Conservative Politics in Turkiye: The Conservative Politics of the Democratic Party and Adnan Menderes

Volume: 8 Number: 2 June 30, 2025
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Roots of Conservative Politics in Turkiye: The Conservative Politics of the Democratic Party and Adnan Menderes

Abstract

In this study, using qualitative research method, Adnan Menderes and the Democratic Party were discussed in terms of conservatism in Turkiye. Adnan Menderes, the ninth prime minister of the Republic of Türkiye, is known as a politician and statesman with liberal and conservative tendencies. Adnan Menderes, one of Türkiye’s most important political actors during his rule that ended with the military coup of May 27, 1960, left the Republican People’s Party and founded the Democratic Party in 1946 with Celal Bayar, Fuat Köprülü and Refik Koraltan, and came to power in the 1950 elections. One of the main tendencies of the party is conservatism. The Democratic Party received strong support from conservatives in the 1946 general elections in which it entered for the first time and in the 1950, 1954 and 1957 general elections in which it came to power. Adnan Menderes’s personality also has an important impact in these developments. Adnan Menderes has always been accepted as a different and valuable person by the conservative segment of Turkish people. Conservatism had an important place in the Democratic Party, which disappeared from the political scene after the 1960 coup, and thus, the party ceased to be an active party in Türkiye’s political culture.

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

Political Movement , Turkish Political Life

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 30, 2025

Submission Date

January 17, 2025

Acceptance Date

June 22, 2025

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 8 Number: 2

APA
Gönültaş, E., & Zariç, S. (2025). Türkiye’de Muhafazakâr Siyasetin Kökleri: Demokrat Parti ve Adnan Menderes’in Muhafazakâr Siyaseti. Uluslararası Yönetim Akademisi Dergisi, 8(2), 448-456. https://doi.org/10.33712/mana.1622142

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