Abstract:

This article’s goal is to analyze which issues the Democratic Party, that was in power between the years 1957 and 1960, and the Republican People's Party, which was the main opposition party, included in the scope of national security in their own discourse and in their propaganda against their rivals, and their security argues. The reason for choosing the years 1957-1960 in this study is that it was the last period of power of DP (Democratic Party), it is an important period in terms of the increase in the conflict of ruling party and opposition party and the changes in the international environment. Despite the fact that the basic views of these two parties on foreign policy didn’t contradict one another under the conditions of the period in question; concepts of "national security", "national unity and integrity" with the concepts of the period followed an opposite line in the field of domestic politics. To that end, the security understanding of these two parties will be tried to be examined. In the first part of the study, the definition of the concepts, the change in the definition of security in the literature will be discussed, and then a short analysis of the domestic and foreign political environment will be mentioned; in the second and third sections, both DP and CHP's understanding of security and discourses on international and domestic policy issues will be examined. The discussions will be evaluated over the news appeared in the press of the period and the speeches of the leaders

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