One-party period of the Republic of Turkey | |||
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1923–1945 | |||
Location | Turkey | ||
President(s) | Kemal Atatürk İsmet İnönü | ||
Key events | Proclamation of the republic Atatürk's reforms World War II | ||
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The one-party period of the Republic of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye'de tek partili dönem) began with the formal establishment of the country in 1923. The Republican People's Party (CHP) was the only party between 1923 and 1945, when the National Development Party was established. After winning the first multiparty elections in 1946 by a landslide, the Republican People's Party lost the majority to the Democratic Party in the 1950 elections. During the one-party period, President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk repeatedly requested that opposition parties be established to stand against the Republican People's Party in order to transition into multi-party democracy.[1] Kâzım Karabekir established the Progressive Republican Party in 1924 but it was banned after its members' involvement in the 1925 Sheikh Said rebellion. In 1930 the Liberal Republican Party was established but then dissolved again by its founder.[2] Despite Atatürk's efforts to establish a self-propagating multi-party system,[1] this was only established after his death in 1938.
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