:the Republican People's Party, secularism and nationalism
/ Sinan Ciddi
New York, NY
: Routledge
, 2009.
viii, 196 p.
(Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics)
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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'aetat 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?.