Abstract:

Three months of 1930, Free Republic Party event has been accepted as one of the most important democracy experience in Turkish political life. That experience has got an important role during the institutionalization of secularism in Turkey. Owners of the power had seen that during that process the general public could not accept radical transformations of the republic. In addition, this event showed that the issue of secularism was the issue of power in Turkey. Depending on the situation, power elite developed a rhetoric that opposition movements were dangerous and reactionarist. The conflict around this rhetoric has got a meaning and could be accepted as an insuperable separation in the history of Turkish democracy. In this article, it will be discussed that how rhetoric of reaction was used and the importance of it for institutionalization of secularism in new regime.

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