چکیده:
The rise to power of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the Republic of Turkey since the early millennium, raises a variety of questions about the fate of Kemalism, the ideology promoted by the first leaders of this country and named after its founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk; since it was based on a kind of secularism, and the modernization of Turkey in a Western way was on its agenda. The continued presence of the mentioned party at the top of the pyramid of power for many years has made it more necessary to address this issue. This study seeks to answer what the position of Kemalism in the field of contemporary Turkish foreign policy is. In this way, by searching for various data on the most important areas of this country's foreign policy, it evaluates the hypothesis that although Kemalism is still a strong ideology in Turkish foreign policy, it has undergone some moderations and in some ways it has declined. The period of the study begins with the establishment of the Welfare Party, the most important predecessor of the Justice and Development Party in 1987. This research has been done using descriptive-analytical method and the required data has been collected from documents and librarial sources. The findings of this study show that the six constituent principles of Kemalism have not had same extent of stability in the contemporary Turkish foreign policy and have been of different importance to the politicians of this country.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Stability and Dynamics of Kemalism in Contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy 1* Bahram Akhavan Kazemi, Mohammad Hassan Gholami 2 Date of Receipt: 2021/01/14 Date of Acceptance: 2021/05/04 Abstract The increasing influence of Islamist parties since the late 1980s, and particularly the rise to power of the Islamist Justice and Development Party in the Republic of Turkey since the beginning of the current millennium, has raised various questions regarding the fate of the ideology promoted by the country's first leaders, known as Kemalism, named after its founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk; because this ideology was based on a type of secularism and had the Western-style modernization of Turkey on its agenda.
The findings of this research showed that the six constituent principles of Kemalism, namely populism, nationalism, statism, republicanism, laicism, and revolutionism, have not enjoyed the same stability in contemporary Turkish foreign policy and have held different levels of importance for the policymakers of this country.
The main goal of this research is to measure the stability of each of the six principles of Kemalism ideology in the most important arenas of contemporary Turkish foreign policy, namely the European policy and the Middle Eastern policy of this country.
4. The Position of Kemalism in Turkey's European Politics With the formation of the Republic of Turkey on the remnants of glorious Ottoman precedents, in foreign policy, a new vision was embodied in Ataturk's thought of "peace at home, peace in the world," alongside demonstrating an international communication line based on the centrality of peace.