Re-establishment of the political system in the transition to multi-party life (1945-1950) in the context of the concept of democracy

The subject of this study is to examine the political system of the Republic of Turkey, which was re-established and reshaped in the context of the concept of democracy during the transition to multi party life. The aim of this study is to analyse how and in what way the democratic political system was shaped in the Republic of Turkey, which switched to multi party life after a long period of time under the influence of both internal and external factors, and to discuss the steps taken in this regard and their shortcomings, based on the different conceptions of democracy of the most important political actors of the period, the Republican People's Party and the Democrat Party. For this purpose, comprehensive research was conducted by using research works, periodicals, archival sources, memoirs and diaries written about the period, and it was revealed how the steps taken towards the establishment of democratic administration during the period were evaluated from different perspectives. As a result, while important steps were taken to establish a democratic administration during the period, the preservation of some of the existing anti-democratic practices and laws prevented the full implementation of this administration. Moreover, both the Republican People's Party and the Democrat Party saw democracy only as a means of political participation in order to come to power, which prevented the concept from becoming a full culture and being internalised. As a matter of fact, the occurrence of anti-democratic practice s and events in the course of Turkish political history proved this.