Please read carefully:
– Citation and Sources should be in Chicago style.
– Antonio Gramsci’s perspective of hegemony and ideology should be applied to Erdogan’s period in Türkiye.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Unveiling the Hegemonic Struggle between Conservatism and Secularism in Turkey between 2002-2023, which
corresponds to Erdogans Rule.
Turkey is
historically divided into two ideological blocs: Seculars and Conservatives.
Throughout the History of the Republic, we can state that Secular hegemony was
prevailing until Erdogan’s rule. In
Turkey, a hegemonic change took place in the last twenty years. I aim to
examine this period by using the Gramscian perspective of hegemony and ideology.
In Turkey, in the last twenty years, a hegemonic change took place. Erdoğan aims to raise the youth in its own conservative Islamic ideology. Did the conservative hegemonic bloc become successful?
PROBLEM DEFINITION:
Does
the “conquest” of political and institutional power mean the victory of the
hegemonic struggle in the social and cultural fields?
METHODOLOGY:
I
will be conducting discourse analysis. Focusing on the dominant political
figures, news, political events, and changes in constitutional law. Mapping
the tensions. Laws, Discourses, Common-Sense, Dissident voices, etc.
PARTS OF THE THESIS:
I. Introduction
II. Theoretical Framework (Gramscian Approach, What is Secularism)
III. Before Erdoğan (Struggle between two hegemonic blocs: Seculars and Conservatives in Turkey since 1923 to 2002)
A history of government-forced secularization in
Turkey and one of the two main political fractures in society: secuars and
conservatives (the second is Turkish and Kurdish identities).
IV. Erdoğan’s Turkey (Mapping out the intended transformation of Turkey by considering the tension between Seculars and Conservatives)
The last two decades of Turkey: How it stands
drastically differently from the first 80 years of the republic in terms of the
stance of the government.
V. Conclusion