Özet:

The narrative of Turkish political life about the transition from the Empire to the Republic generally focuses on the legal qualities of the regimes. In this respect, the periods have been based on the discourses as the first and the second Constitutional eras on a constitutional regime with parliament, Abdülhamid II era between the two Constitutional eras on despotism, and the early Republic on a constitutional regime without monarchy. Here the periods aforementioned are aimed to be analyzed on the basis of political culture rather than legal in order to reach an understanding on the nature of political authority in Turkey. In this way, it is desired to emphasize a continuous aspect of political authorities throughout the radical regime changes. This aspect is its top-down authoritarianism that feeds on traditional legitimacy and does not want to change its character regardless of the extent of modernization. However, the political center in Turkey, despite the authoritarianism fed by its patrimonial code, has showed no tendency to totalitarianism as required by the same code.

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