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Following the short-lived Progressive Republican Party, which lasted only 7 months between November 1924 and June 1925, a second opposition party was founded in August 1930. During the period of the Liberal Republican Party, which ran in the first local elections that was held in September-October 1930 and lasted for 1.5 months, the leader of the Republican People’s Party, İsmet Pasha, held a rally in Sivas and the leader of the Liberal Republican Party, Fethi Bey, held one in Izmir. Both “direct”, in terms of face to face communication with the people, and “indirect”, in terms of delivering the speeches to the masses, who were not present in the rallies, by publishing them in the leading newspapers of the era, communication methods were jointly employed in the leaders’ addresses. In this regard, the matters, addressed during these rallies, which can be regarded as the first public meetings of the multi-party political life in Turkey, and the way they were addressed offer significant data in terms of discourse analyses and political communication techniques. This article, which is based on archive research and uses comparative discourse analysis method, examines the political culture, ideological attitudes, topical issues and the leaders’ public performances.

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