Two Faces of Erdoğanism: Radical Conservatism and Vindictive Nationalism
Two Faces of Erdoğanism: Radical Conservatism and Vindictive Nationalism

Author(s): Ahmet Insel
Subject(s): Governance, Nationalism Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Two Faces; Erdoğanism; Radical; Conservatism; Vindictive; Nationalism;
Summary/Abstract: The Turkish legislative and presidential elections of May 2023 took the form of a referendum and a plebiscite. They can be compared to a referendum because the electoral debates focused, among other things, on the continuation or not of an ad-hoc autocratic political system, “the governmental system of the Presidency of the Republic”, which was accepted by referendum in 2017. But these elections can also be regarded as a plebiscite because the voters were above all called upon to support or to put an end to Tayyip Erdoğan’s stay in power. Voting for Erdoğan's main rival meant not only wanting the end of Erdoğan's long reign but also the return to the rule of law, the immediate relaxation of the hyper-presidential system and eventually the return to a parliamentary regime.

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