TY - BOOK AU - Ciddi, Sinan PY - 2009 DA - 2009// TI - Kemalism in Turkish politics: the Republican People's Party, secularism and nationalism T3 - Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics 10 ET - 1. publ. PB - Routledge CY - London [u.a.] KW - Secularism KW - Turkey KW - Nationalism KW - Kemalism KW - Politics and government KW - 1918-1960 AB - 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'état 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? SN - 041547504X LA - English N1 - Sinan Ciddi ID - 570478995 ER -