ABSTRACT
This chapter covers the developing relationship between party politics and state ideology across the transition from the Ottoman era to the Turkish Republican regime, up until the advent of multiparty politics in 1950. This is the period in which Turkish nationalism became rooted in modern Turkey’s political discourse and state structures. The chapter discusses the contingent events that shaped the precise nature of this development, struggles for power inside and out of the party system, and the effect of political dissent from the political and ideological directions of the state. The emergence of liberal, communist, conservative, and fascistic currents of Turkish politics and their relationship to the dominant political movements are also addressed.
