“…In Turkey, various studies related to democratic perception of teachers, teacher candidates, and students were conducted. The studies can be counted as the impact of teacher qualifications on student's democratic behavior development (Tuncel and Balcı, 2015), determining the perception of democracy developed by teachers (Sarı and Sadık, 2011;Kartal, 2018), democratic attitude (Bulut, 2006;Erbay and Ömeroğlu, 2012;Genç and Kalafat, 2007;Koçoğlu, 2013), the democratic behavior of instructors (Samancı and Yıldırım, 2015) and instructors' perception of learning and teaching of democratic values (Oğuz, 2011), democratic values (Çermik, 2013), and the perception of democracy in art education (Konak and Bulut, 2018). On the other hand, this study aims to determine teacher candidates' perception of democracy according to some variables.…”