NMC278H1 : Essay.docx
10 Dec 2013
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Government developed from the single party rule of the republican people"s party to a multi-party system: democratic party. Motivated by business" desire for economic freedom. Promised to reduce interventionist practices of the kemalist state. Won over a large proportion of the rural peasantry. Constructed highways thus making the distribution of goods more accessible. Arrested democratic party members: charged with political and financial corruption. Returned power to politicians in october 1961: bicameral system: senate and an assembly. Removed the justice party: unable to quell violence brought on by economic dissatisfaction, increased kurdish separatist movement, revived islamic revolution brought on by the national salvation party, demographic changes: 1960s: migration into western europe for economic opportunities. Turkey was governed under several coalition parties: the cyprus question: Initially conquered by the ottomans, who developed alongside the residing greek inhabitants. 1950"s greek cypriots launched a movement for independence. Several confrontations between turkey and greece: 1964, 1974. Us halted aid after the 1974 incident.
