Kemalism and the Republican People’s Party (CHP)

Oran, Baskın; Akkoyunlu, Feyzi Karabekir

Abstract

From the late 18th century onward, the twin revolutions of industrialization and nationalism posed existential threats to multireligious, multiethnic, multicultural territorial empires like those of the Hapsburgs and the Ottomans. During this period, the imperial ruling elite responded to these new challenges using various ideological interventions. In the Ottoman Empire, these were, respectively, Ottomanism, Islamism, and Turkism. Kemalism is the offspring of this turbulent process, borne out of the rise and fall of the three ideologies of Ottomanism, Islamism, and Turkism and the experience of a decade of war and destruction between 1912 and 1922. It emerged as the ideology of revolutionary Westernization from above, conceived and carried out by the modernized intelligentsia of a largely premodern society.

Citation

Oran, B., & Akkoyunlu, F. K. (2019). Kemalism and the Republican People’s Party (CHP). In E. Özyürek, G. Özpınar, & E. Altındiş (Eds.), Authoritarianism and Resistance in Turkey: Conversations on Democratic and Social Challenges (11-18). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76705-5_2

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 25, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 25, 2022
• Pages: 11-18
• Book Title: Authoritarianism and Resistance in Turkey: Conversations on Democratic and Social Challenges
• ISBN: 9783319767048
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76705-5_2
• Keywords: Turkey, Kemalism