Hukuk öğrencilerinin aldıkları hukuk eğitiminin öğrencilerin siyasi tolerans düzeylerine etkisi

This thesis analyzes the impact of legal education on the political tolerance of Law students. By scrutinizing their approaches and perspectives toward particular political demands and rights of Kurds, I will try to understand if legal education plays a role in the formation of their political tolerance. It is the argument of this thesis that the Law students, especially senior Law students are inclined to act with a sense to protect the order; thus, they may be less tolerant of the demands of Kurds if they think that it would constitute threat for the established order. Besides, I claim that the stance of state plays a key role for the Law students in drawing a conclusion on whether granting a right to Kurds challenge the order or not. Correspondingly, I argue that the Law students may show intolerance towards demands of Kurds that have not been supported by the state and put into practice yet. The main finding of the study is that while the senior Law students substantiate their objections to the particular political demands using the rhetoric of state?s permanence and importance of the protecting the order, other students? responses seem to be free of those certain type of discourses. Thus, the thesis argues that legal education may play a role in shaping the political tolerance of Law students.