THE POLITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE LEFTIST PARTIES IN TURKEY: 1980 COUP D'ETAT AND AFTERWARDS
TÜRKİYE'DE SOL PARTİLERİN SİYASET ANLAYIŞI:1980 DARBESİ VE SONRASI

Author : Erdal FIRAT
Number of pages : 1-20

Abstract

The “Novo Ordus Seclarum,” came with neo-liberal politics, which not only influenced the economic arena, but also the political, ideological and cultural arenas, which in turn influenced the logic of the whole system. While the devastation of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc has legitimized the discourse on how “capitalism has no alternatives,” in order to eliminate the obstacles before capital, and not necessarily those before freedom or a global sharing of the riches, each nation had its role in this “new world” determined. In short, both legal and economical arrangements worked with cultural and ideological ones to establish the new responsibilities that societies had to bear. Turkey entered this era of transition with a military coup. The military government, like it eliminated the circumstances for the social rise of the left, eliminated those for any future oppositional movement as well. Thus, an authoritarian air accompanied the establishment of neo-liberal politics in Turkey. Nevertheless, the social and political problems experienced in Turkey were not much different from those experienced throughout the world during this period: The insouciance that accompanied the fall in state power, increase in individualism and the replacement of political networks with social support networks. At the basis of these changes lies just one goal which could summarize with the concept of “depolitization of politics”.

Keywords

Politics, Military Coup, Socialism, Soscialist, Party, Left

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