Milli Şef Döneminde CHP'de Mebusluk Başvuruları ve Siyasi Kültür (1939 - 1950)

Abstract

In this study, a social approach about Turkey’s political culture which was existed between 1939 and 1950, will be held by the people who applied for the general deputy elections which accomplished in that period. Subject of this study will be a different aspect of state – society relations in the early period of Republic of Turkey and sources of society’s wish for being a part of the state will be examined. Hence, letters and applications forms which has written, filled and sent to Republican People’s Party by the people who wanted to be a deputy in aforesaid era will be adressed. Thus which specifications they have are worthy to elected for themselves and how they tried to show these specifications to the Party will be examined. One of the arguments that will be asserted in this study is generally perception about politics was much more different than today on the society of 1940’s Turkey. At the same time, there will be another argument to exposure in the study as specific structure of this perception included some standards in itself and these standards also and actually provided to win aforesaid perception’s caracteristic attribute. In other words, variaton of causes of desires about making politics which the people had who lived in that era will be unfolded. It will be also asserted that this variation both created and reflected to the period – specific statement pratics. At the end of the study, it will be revealed that how the phenomenon of politics had perceived by people in their everyday life and in aforesaid era’s circumstances. By the means of this study, this time a new perspective will be brougth to the case of relations between state and society, or in other words governing and governed which had studied before by investigation reports or letters about complaints, denuncations, requests which situated on Repulican People’s Party Catalog in Presidental State Archive. Thus, it will be also laid out that these applications were an interval form of these relations. In fact, the study will not focus to the people who were absolutely inside or outside of Turkish Grand National Assembly which an institution as the people who have authority to govern came together. Instead of this, the study will be carried out by focus to the people who were outside of Turkish Grand National Assembly, but eager to get in. Because of that, this study will be able to define as a different type of prosopograpic academic texts.