Güven Gürkan Öztan: Looking at the Course of the Relationship between the Center-Right and the Doctrinaire Right from the Perspective of Democratization (1983-2002)

Looking at the Course of the Relationship between the Center-Right and the Doctrinaire Right from the Perspective of Democratization (1983-2002)

Abstract:

The September 12 coup d'état and the political and legal framework constructed by the interim regime and the accumulation regime model on which this framework is based have largely determined the positioning of political actors and their relations with each other in Turkey. In the throes of the neoliberal transformation, the balance within center-right politics and the forms of cooperation and competition between center-right actors and doctrinaire right-wing currents have also shifted. In order to make sense of the zigzags in the adventure of democratization, it is of particular importance to examine these intricate relations from an analytical perspective. This study also aims to examine the political and social dynamics of the shift from the center to the doctrinaire right in Turkish politics between 1983 and 2002, and the new alignment in right-wing politics caused by the crisis of hegemony.

Güven Gürkan Öztan:

He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations. He received his PhD degree from Istanbul University Institute of Social Sciences with his thesis titled “The Political Construction of Childhood in Turkey”. His thesis was published as a book with the same title by Istanbul Bilgi University Publications. Her book titled Militarism in Turkey was published by Ayrıntı Publications. His book with İnci Ö. Kerestecioğlu, The Turkish Right: Myths, Fetishes and Enemy Images was published by İletişim Yayınları. His other books include Passion, Change and Grace: Istanbul in the 1950s (with Serdar Korucu) and State Mind and 1915: The Construction of the Armenian Question Narrative in Turkey (with Ömer Turan). His articles on political theory, political sociology and political life in Turkey during the Republican Era, as well as other academic studies, have been published in international and national journals including Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Middle East Critique, Toplum ve Bilim and Mülkiye Journal. Öztan, who is a member of SİTD and BESAM and a trustee of the History Foundation, gives various seminars and conferences in non-governmental organizations in addition to his academic studies.