MEHMED FUAD KÖPRÜLÜ’NÜN DEMOKRAT PARTİ’DEN AYRILIŞI
SEPERATION OF MEHMED FUAD KÖPRÜLÜ FROM DEMOCRAT PARTY

Summary/Abstract: Mehmed Fuad Köprülü began his political life as a deputy of Kars in 1935 at personel request of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. However, it cannot be said that he had taken an active role in politics until 1945. In 1945, along with Adnan Menderes, Celal Bayar and Refik Koraltan, they took part in the opposition movement against the anti-democratic policies of National Chief İsmet İnönü beside the one-party government and they formed a new political party in the name of Democratic Party (DP) as a result of this opposition. Köprülü had served as Deputy Prime Ministry, in Ministry of National Defense and particularly in Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1957, when he resigned from the party in DP government. With the drifting of the Prime Minister Menderes away from the democratic understanding of the party’s foundation, Köprülü criticized this situation, made great efforts to correct it, and officially resigned from the DP on September 6, 1957, when he realized that he could not fix this situation in the party. The process of Köprülü’s separation from Democratic Party has been examined in the study.

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