Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-193) and index.
Contents
Introduction: social democracy, Kemalism and the Republican People's Party -- Kemalism and the left -- Mainstream left politics: 'democratic left' ideology and the CHP -- Appraising centre-left politics 1961-1980 -- The 12 September coup d'état and its aftermath: the displacement of centre left politics? -- Accounting for the weakness of the centre-left in the 1990s: ideological considerations -- A crisis of Kemalist modernity? -- Three cases: the Alevis, trade unions and the urban vote -- Revisionism: an anathema for the Turkish centre-left and the principle of 'ideological adaptability' -- Conclusion: the CHP: the continued projection of centrist politics?
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