Author/Authors :
Genç Yılmaz, Ayfer Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü, Turkey , Genç Yılmaz, Ayfer İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi - Ticari Bilimler Fakültesi - Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü, Turkey
Abstract :
This study analyzes the political violence in Turkey under the First Nationalist Front Government (1975-77). For that purpose, I focus on discourses, practices and mechanisms of state repression in my analysis. The establishment of the First Nationalist Front Government by Justice Party, National Salvation Party, Republican Reliance Party, and Nationalist Movement Party in 1975 played an important role in the transformation of social violence into political violence. The political actors of this period contributed to this transformation by using a strong state discourse as well as other mechanisms including the police organization and practices such as martial law. In that regard, the state and its institutions, which have been mostly neglected in the studies of political violence, are placed at the center of this analysis. The analysis, firstly, focuses on the strong state discourse, which is utilized by political actors in order to legitimize the mechanisms and practices of state repression. Second, it concentrates on the martial law practice, its execution and its influence on political violence. Finally, the police organization, which underwent a structural transformation under the First Nationalist Front Government is examined.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Political violence , the state , Nationalist Front , the police , martial law.
