Kemalism: Difference between revisions
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=== [[File:Soc-h.png|frameless]] National Democratic Revolution [[File: Kemal.png|frameless]] ===
The aim of this ideology is to liquidate feudalism and other reactionary elements by first realizing the goals of Kemalism in Turkey. Then, as the continuation of Kemalism, he says that socialism will come. [https://vatanpartisi.org.tr/english/haberler/the-mIssIon-of-the-patrIotIc-party-turkey-10961 The "Patriotic Party" represents this idea in Turkey.]
=== [[File:Racenat.png]] Racist Kemalism / Far-right Kemalism ===
In an article in [https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ülkü_(dergi) Ülkü magazine], Saffet Engin, after stating that a nationalist community attaches importance to solidarity, listed factors such as history, language, ideals and unity of interest as elements of solidarity. Saffet Engin includes blood union in this group. Considering the blood factor among the unifying elements, Saffet Engin also shows a racist tendency by mentioning the superiority of the Turkish race by giving place to the concept of race rather than nation in some of his views.
Saffet Engin, who described Atatürk as the Great Genius and hailed him as the creator of the Turkish race, in the introduction of his book in which he analyzed the Kemalist revolution, in another part of the book, states that there is little racial mixing with foreigners in Anatolia and that anthropological studies have been carried out.
He claims that only 5.5% of the dolichocephalic elements were encountered in the investigations and that a clean breed type was dominant. Although he states that the concept of nation is not limited to race, Saffet Engin, who believes that racial superiority is a fact, argues that the dominant race also gives the nation its character. Approaching the subject from this point of view, Saffet Engin also claims that it has been scientifically proven that the character of the Turk cannot be compared with any other nation. As can be seen, Saffet Engin, who does not exclude the concept of race in the definition of nation, easily talks about racial superiority. Although this is not an approach that dominates both his own works and the general idea of the period, the fact that these racist elements are encountered in his various writings differentiates Saffet Engin's position.
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