La tension entre l`idée républicaine et la démocratie au sein du Parti Républicain du Peuple (CHP)

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis is to demonstrate that the existence of a ?tension between the republican idea and the democracy within the Republican People?s Party (CHP)` in Turkey. The referendum on the constitutional change which took place on September 12th, 2010 provoked a grave crisis within the CHP. It is widely criticized by the public opinion that a party like the CHP, both defining itself social democrat and definitely refusing the project of constitutional change, where the current constitution . Consequently, the republican ideology conveyed by the CHP has become the center of further questioning nowadays.