Dissertation
The Radical Party and the Making of Kemalism (1901-1939)
On Wednesday 14 May 2025 Remzi Çakırlar successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
- Author
- R.C. Çakırlar
- Date
- 14 May 2025
- Links
- Leiden Repository
This dissertation examines the relations between the politicians and ideologues of the Republican, Radical, and Socialist Radical Party (Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste) and the Young Turks, the Committee of Union and Progress (İttihat Terakki Cemiyeti) and the Republican People’s Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Fırkası). The dissertation begins by introducing Radicalism as a distinct political current, followed by an analysis of the relationship and finally discusses the political and intellectual consequences of these relationships. These interactions were reciprocal, continuous, and frequent, playing a key role in Ottoman/Turkish-French relations as well as in the mutual transformation and intellectual exchanges between France and Turkey (and beyond) in a fluctuating global context from the 1890s to 1939. This dissertation offers a nuanced, process-oriented, connected, and dynamic transnational history of the making of Kemalism.
Supervisors:
• Prof.dr. E.J. Zürcher
• Prof.dr. N. Clayer (EHESS)