Özet:

In this study, the Republican People's Party (CHP)'s vocational transformation was studied through the words of former leader Deniz Baykal and the leader in office Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. The CHP has defined itself as a social-democratic and laic in its official statements. However, in recent years, it has been observed that the political speeches of the CHP have moved from this social-democratic line to a right-conservative political language. It is believed that this transformation in political speech is related to the purpose of voting. The political, economic and social conditions of the countries lead to a change in the programmes of the parties and in the speeches of their leaders. This study aims to demonstrate the vocational transformation of the CHP in the period from the 1990s to the 2019s through leading speeches and party election statements. In order to reveal the direction of this change, political speeches and political texts were studied and both leaders' speeches and election statements were comparatively analyzed. In this study, Fairclough’s critical speech resolution method was adapted to the political speech of the CHP leaders, and the content resolution method was also used. Based on the findings of the study, the conclusion has been that the CHP has increasingly gone away from the values of social democracy, which constitutes its main character, and has adopted a more liberal conception of secularity.