Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 301 pages)
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755607631
Series Statement:
Library of modern Turkey 1
Content:
Introduction -- Part I: The Democratic Party versus the heirs to the one-party regime -- Chapter 1: The Democratic Party -- Chapter 2: The Kemalist revolution and the Ottoman past -- Chapter 3: Challenges to the one-party regime -- Chapter 4: Menderes and counter-Kemalist currents -- Chapter 5: The Kemalists hit back -- Part II: The military versus the Democratic Party and the role of CHP -- Chapter 6: The military and Menderes -- Chapter 7: The 27 may coup d'état and military regime -- Chapter 8: Transition from military regime to civilian government -- Part III: National and regional politics in an international context -- Chapter 9: Searching for a place among the nations -- Chapter 10: Turkey's regional relations -- Chapter 11: Turkey and the Cold War in the Middle East -- Part IV: Conclusion and perspectives -- Chapter 12: The Menderes era and its demise.
Content:
"Adnan Menderes' election to power in 1950 signalled a new epoch in the history of modern Turkey. For the first time a democratic government ruled the country, taking over Kemal Ataturk's political heirs, the People's Republican Party (CHP), and challenging the Kemalist elite's monopoly on the control of state institutions and society itself. However, this period was short-lived. In 1960, Turkey's army staged a coup d'etat and Menderes was hanged the following year. Here, Mogens Pelt beings by examining the era of the rule of the Democratic Party, and what led to its downfall. Among the chief accusations raised against Menderes by the army was that he had undermined the principles of the founder of modern Turkey, Ataturk, and that he had exploited religion for political purposes. Military Intervention and a Crisis Democracy in Turkey furthermore, and crucially, examines the legacy of the military intervention that brought this era of democratic rule to an end. Although the armed forces officially returned power to the civilians in 1961, this intervention - indeed, this crisis of democracy - allowed the military to become a major player in Turkey's political process, weakening the role of elected politicians. The officer corps claimed that the army was the legal guardian of Kemalism, and that it had the right and duty to intervene again, if the circumstances proscribed it and when it deemed that the values of Ataturk were threatened. Indeed, these were precisely that ground on which the armed forces justified its coup d'etats of 1971 and 1980. This unique exploration of the Menderes period sheds new light on the shaping of post-war Turkey and will be vital for those researching the Turkish Republic, and the influence of the military in its destiny."--Bloomsbury publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-294) and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848857780
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786724991
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Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755607631
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