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İdrisoğlu, Banu (2016)

Left-Leaning Interpretations of Kemalism within the Scope of Three Journals: Kadro, Markopaşa and Yön

Research master thesis | Middle Eastern Studies (research) (MA)

This study examines the ideological connections between the left-leaning Kadro, Markopaşa, and Yön journals and Kemalism . Kadro, Markopaşa and Yön are not only journals but also political currents of different scales. This research reveals what the exact relation of the writers with the Kemalist regime of their time was, whether these journals contributed to Kemalist ideology by using their intellectual influence and how they attributed left-oriented concepts to Kemalism. Further, it explores how they coped with contradictions of combining left-oriented ideas with Kemalism and what the similarities and differences were in terms of expressing the views of the left-leaning intellectuals in the mid-1930s, the late 1940s and in the early 1960s. The answers to these questions are discussed in connection to the six tenets of Kemalist ideology: the nationalist, populist, etatist, laicist, reformist, and republicanist arrows.

Kemalism

Kadro

Markopaşa

Yön

Turkish Left

Author

İdrisoğlu, Banu

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Turkish Studies

Supervisors

Zürcher, Erik-Jan

ECTS Credits

30

Language

en