This book provides an informed analysis of the ideological content of Kemalismthe name given to Mustafa Kemal Atat rk's party's political thought and practiceand the persistently official and semi-official, hegemonic ideology of the Turkish Republic, formally founded in 1923. Through a textual and contextual analysis of Kemalism in Atat rk's speeches and the official documents of the ruling Republican People's Party, Taha Parla and Andrew Davison...