The Erdoğanization of Turkish politics and the role of the opposition

Selçuk, Orçun; Hekimci, Dilara; Erpul, Onur

doi:10.1080/14683857.2019.1689902

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“…This article provided quantitative evidence about the contemporary party divide in Turkey using Twitter following choice data. Prior academic works already documented the mobilization of opposition parties amid fast-declining democratic standards in Turkey (Selçuk and Hekimci, 2020; Sayarı, 2016; Esen and Gumuscu, 2019; Somer et al, 2021; Selçuk et al, 2019). They detailed the opposition-coordination practices, including nominating joint candidates, supporting strategic voting, and conducting unified campaigns until the 2017 constitutional referendum.…”

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Tweeting apart: Democratic backsliding, new party cleavage and changing media ownership in Turkey

Metin

Morales

2022

Party Politics

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Turkey plunges headlong into democratic backsliding under Erdoğan’s presidency. The country was a forerunner in the decline of democratic standards in a decade from 2010 to 2020. In the first part of the article, we investigate how this democratic erosion suspends Turkey’s long-standing traditional party cleavage between religious conservatism and secularism. By tracing individuals who follow the members of the Turkish parliament on Twitter, we attach the deputies to their followers with the help of the correspondence analysis. We illustrate that, as the ethnic identity divide remains significant, democracy-authoritarianism cleavage becomes the main party split that brings the supporters of an ideologically diverse group of opposition parties closer. In the second part, we conceptualize the democracy-authoritarianism divide as the main cleavage in Turkish party politics after 2017 to shed light on how the AKP’s different tactics of capturing traditional media generated a partisan media landscape.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tweeting apart: Democratic backsliding, new party cleavage and changing media ownership in Turkey

Metin

Morales

2022

Party Politics

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“…The party has struggled in the slippery ground of deepening autocratization. For example, Selçuk et al (2019) have analyzed the speeches of Kılıçdaroglu to his party and to parliamentary groups between June 2011 and August 2014. They found that the speeches reflect a clear trend in which Erdogan as an individual politician had become more prominent than the AKP as a political party.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They argue that Kılıçdaroglu, by targeting Erdogan personally, aggravated anti-Erdogan sentiments. Hence, he antagonized AKP supporters and consolidated their in-group identity (Selçuk et al 2019). Therefore, despite the path of change within the party, adopting an inclusive discourse at all party levels took a considerable amount of time; party elites, including the leader, have also been trapped in the polarization.…”

Section: Struggle To Find a New Way Out Of Polarization: A New Leader...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Widerstand gegen die Autokratisierung in der Türkei: Vom ausgrenzenden zum einschließenden Diskurs

Korkmaz

2023

Z Vgl Polit Wiss

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This study explores the changing discourse of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) in Turkey as it confronts a populist authoritarian government. By analyzing and contrasting discourses used in election campaigns and protests and focus group discussions it investigates opposition’s role in fueling or challenging the polarizing populist narrative of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). This paper argues that autocratization is a dynamic process in which opposition parties play an active role, contributing to and opposing autocratization simultaneously, rather than being mere victims of the process. It claims that the CHP’s electoral and discursive strategy has shifted gradually under Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s leadership since 2010. Unlike the previous exclusionary discourse that legitimized the AKP’s polarizing, populist narrative, the party has adopted an inclusive discourse that has contributed to its victory in the 2019 local elections.

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“…For example, since the coup of 1980, only two different party systems have emerged. On the other hand, Turkish democracy, throughout its history, has suffered from problems hindering institutionalization, such as military interventions (Hale, 1994), lack of intraparty democracy (Celep, 2021), political polarization (Aydın Düzgit, 2019), clientelistic relationships between parties and their supporters (Yıldırım, 2020), and personalization of politics (Selçuk, Hekimci, & Erpul, 2019). While parties are somewhat institutionalized, since the Political Parties Law demands a standard organizational form, party leaders have a tremendous grip over central executive committees, and thus leadership change rarely occurs (Özbudun, 2000: 84).…”

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Measuring the Level of Party Institutionalization in Turkey

Bölükbaşi¹

2022

jps

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The main aim of this research is to combine theoretical approaches to party institutionalization with empirical operationalization. This study provides a systematic operationalization of the concept of party institutionalization using different indicators in the case of Turkish democracy. Although there has been extensive literature on the Turkish party system, there has been little discussion on party institutionalization in Turkey. The main weakness of most research is the failure to address how to quantify and measure party institutionalization. To overcome this problem, this paper offers the Party Institutionalization Index (PII). The PII is produced by the systematic operationalization of four dimensions of party institutionalization: stability, systemness, reification, and rootedness. The research shows that a political party may have significantly different scores in each dimension. This study argues that political parties with higher membership strength, geographically large-scale units, higher chronological age, more leadership changes, lower electoral volatility, and greater electoral success will become more institutionalized and survive longer. The results indicate that the CHP is the most institutionalized party in Turkey. This study also shows that political parties in Turkey, except for the HDP, display a relatively high level of institutionalization.

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The Erdoğanization of Turkish politics and the role of the opposition

Cited by 27 publications

References 29 publications

Tweeting apart: Democratic backsliding, new party cleavage and changing media ownership in Turkey

Tweeting apart: Democratic backsliding, new party cleavage and changing media ownership in Turkey

Widerstand gegen die Autokratisierung in der Türkei: Vom ausgrenzenden zum einschließenden Diskurs

Measuring the Level of Party Institutionalization in Turkey

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