Between technocracy, reason, and furor: Turkish opposition, the CHP, and anti-populist styles

Gürpınar D.

TURKISH STUDIES, cilt.23, sa.4, ss.499-528, 2022 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 23 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/14683849.2021.2018653
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH STUDIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Political Science Complete, Public Affairs Index, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.499-528
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Turkish Politics, populism, islamism, democratization, neoliberalism, technocracy, PARTY, POLITICS, AKP
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This article aims to demonstrate the tension inherent within the Turkish opposition between those favoring technocratic anti-populism and/or pragmatic politics and those calling for a passionate and resolute anti-AKP platform seeking revenge. These competing inclinations offer alternate anti-populist platforms and 'styles.' The article asks whehter opposition to a populist regime inherently generates an anti-populist platform that ideologically confronts it. The article examines three contenders to President Erdogan as representatives of three alternative anti-populist styles. It also reflects on the debates among various public intellectuals around the ways to electorally defeat populism.