Türkiye’de Anti-Komünizmin Kaynakları 2: Cumhuriyet döneminde Siyasi Konjonktürün Düşünce Gündemini Belirlemesi Üzerine The Sources Of Anti-Communism In Turkey - 2: Preliminary Thoughts About The Agenda

The interest towards the republican era ?especially towards the single-party period- has risen due to the recent daily political disputes. The interest, which centered on the ottoman history in the 1950s, gravitated towards the late history starting in the 1990s. And it specifically focused on the single-party administration. But this interest is suitable in regard to the political and social tendencies recently. The interest towards the political and social events of the recent history takes shape according to the Turkish policy which is profoundly sensitive about the political tendencies which dominates the world and about the developments in the West. Consequently, some political and social events are brought to the fore and others are off the table. And in the discussions, the conditions which determine the discussion about the TÜRK TOPLUM DÜŞÜNCESİNİN KAYNAKLARI 93 political and social events in question are not accentuated sufficiently. The international relationship between the historical and social events is scarcely correlated. All the social events are approached as if they were the result of the internal dynamic of Turkey. It is really difficult to understand why the highbrows, who think that any political and social event occurring in a faraway place around the world will immediately have its effect on all the world’s societies due to globalization, put all the responsibility on the internal dynamics while they evaluate a true to life historical event. Some think tanks, depending upon daily political debate, judge some of the political and social events in the late history, whereas they put forward some of the events in order to legitimate the ideas they advocate historically. These people ignore the fact that the intellectual tendencies that they discuss in detail are also the result of some certain historical and sociological conditions just like their own thoughts. While they blame some of the movement of thought of being the continuation of the single-party period and out of date, they forget that their own existence is the result of the internal and external conditions of the republic.