1960’LAR TÜRKİYE SOSYALİST BASININDA ÇOK PARTİLİ YAŞAM VE PARLAMENTARİZM TARTIŞMALARI

1960s were the years when the leftist movements in Turkey awakened at both practical and theoretical levels. Socialist ideas reached larger crowds in Turkey thanks to some internal and external factors, i.e. the realm of freedom provided by the 1961 Constitution, developments demonstrated that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics could compete effectively in certain circumstances with the United States of America, and the rise of socialism both in Arabic World and Western Europe. Turkish socialist journals were therefore full of theoretical discussions of time. In this study, discussions raised in some of those selected leading journals about parliamentarism, coup d’état and elections are examined by conducting a textual analysis and the ideas of socialists -who were divided as National Democratic Revolutionaries and Socialist Revolutionaries- on these issues are analysed in a comparative manner with the aim of revealing divergences among them.