The change in the CHP`s kurdish policy (2002-2015): the party goals approach

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2023-8

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Gölgelioğlu Klujs, Özlem

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This thesis aims to analyse the Kurdish politics of the CHP between 2002 and 2015. For this purpose, the Party Goals approach, which analyses party policy change within the framework of certain causalities and concepts, is adopted. Firstly, the change in CHP policies was analysed based on the data of the Manifesto Research Group. Party documents, leaders' speeches and newspaper reports were analysed to determine the reflections of this change on the party's Kurdish politics. The conclusion reached after this analysis in the terms of the Party Goals approach is the following: Between 2002 and 2008, the Baykal`s CHP played an active role as an opposition party within a regime structure that increased the political influence of the party. This active role, in line with the expectations of the theoretical framework, increased the influence of the party's founding ideology in party politics and the party employed adversarial strategies. As a reflection of this general strategy, in these years, the CHP took a rejectionist position on the fundamental issues of the Kurdish question. With the change of the regime features the party, under the Kılıçdaroğlu leadership, began to pursue strategies aimed at increasing its vote share, and this general strategy, again in line with the expectations of the theoretical framework, led the party to adopt compromising but instable and blurred positions in the issues of Kurdish problem.

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CHP Party Politics, Party Policy change, Party Goals Approach, Turkey`s Kurdish Problem

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/104860

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis