Emergence of Social Democracy in Turkey

The Republican People''s Party (RPP), also know as the CHP (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi), stands as the main opposition party - one of two major political currents, second only to the Erdooan''s AK Party. Established as the founding party of Ataturk''s republican regime, the RPP has a history of hostility of leftist parties. Despite this, by the mid-1960s, the RPP had re-orientated itself as left of c...