Özet:

: The first independent opposition party in the history of the Republic, the Progressive Republican Party, has taken its place in history as an indicator of the failure of a well-intentioned formation. The reason why the establishment of the party is important for the history of Turkey is that the founders of the party were Kazım Karabekir, Rauf Orbay, Ali Fuat Cebesoy, who had been comrades-in-arms and close friends with Mustafa Kemal Pasha during the National Struggle. The views of the Progressive Republican Party did not coincide with the People's Party on the method of realization of the reforms, the implementation of secularism and the economy. The Progressive Republican Party, which moved away from the statist policies implemented by the People's Party and advocated Western-type liberalism, also opposed the reforms that had been made and would be made on the road to democratization in terms of method. Although the grounds for the formation of this opposition were caused by events such as the abolition of the Sultanate and the proclamation of the Republic, the main event that made a sound was the abolition of the Caliphate, because the reforms made in order to realize a secular social order caused reactions in the society that could not break away from the ummah consciousness. . At the end of these developments, the party was shut down with the Takriri Silence Law on the grounds that the party had supported the Sheikh Sait Rebellion, which was characterized as ethnic by some and religious by others. Since the Progressive Republican Party was an initiative that prepared the ground for today's democratic order, it is a subject worth examining in terms of the way it is covered in Social Studies - History of Revolution and Kemalism textbooks. In this study. In this study, the place and importance of the Progressive Republican Party in Turkish political life was emphasized and the way the related subject was handled in Social Studies textbooks was analyzed. As a result of the research, while the 4th, 5th and 6th grade textbooks contain information in the form of democratization, republicanism, forming a political party in the form of creating a basis for the main subject and increasing readiness, as the age and grade level increased, the dimension of the subject in the textbooks deepened and it was seen that every democratic step did not always have positive results and it was tried to develop a perspective in this direction.