The potentials and challenges of left populism in Turkey
- In spring 2015, Turkey witnessed the unexpected rise of the HDP, founded by the Kurdish Liberation Movement together with the Turkish radical left, against President Erdoğan’s authoritarian rule. In this article, I will employ contemporary literature on left populism to explain the HDP’s rise as an alternative left hegemonic project against the neoliberal authoritarianism that Erdoğan represents. After discussing the historical context from which the HDP emerged and grew, I will evaluate its discourse and strategies based on a conceptualization of left-wing populism. Lastly, I will discuss the challenges that the HDP confronted after the June 2015 elections and the differences between the Turkish and Western European contexts for a left-wing populist strategy.
| Author details: | Muzaffer KayaORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2019.1634398 |
| ISSN: | 1353-0194 |
| ISSN: | 1469-3542 |
| Title of parent work (English): | British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies |
| Subtitle (German): | the case of the peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) |
| Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
| Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2019 |
| Publication year: | 2019 |
| Release date: | 2021/01/19 |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Number of pages: | 16 |
| First page: | 797 |
| Last Page: | 812 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
