Türkiye’de Politik Kutuplaşmanın Tarihsel Kökenleri/Kolektif Hafıza

Bu çalışmada, son dönemde Türkiye’de yoğun olarak gündeme gelen politik kutup-laşma olgusunun tarihsel kökenleri analiz edilecektir. Halihazırda Türkiye’de artan po-litik kutuplaşma verili bir durum olarak değerlendirilirken, temel-yapısal nedenleri ana-liz edilmeden bu olgunun nedenleri güncel politik tartışmalarda aranmaktadır. Çoğu du-rumda da sonuçlar birer neden olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Bu bağlamda mevcut yük-sek kutuplaşma düzeyinin nasıl açıklanacağı, nedenlerinin ve gerekçelerinin nasıl ortaya konacağı önemli bir husus olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Mevcut literatür konuyu politik aktörlerin/elitlerin tutumları ile ya da önyargılı ve yanlı haber/bilgi akışı vb. ile açıklar-ken, tüm bunların temellendiği ideolojik, bilişsel ve duygusal arka planı ikincilleştirmek-tedir. Politik kutuplaşmaya ilişkin uluslararası literatür politik kutuplaşmadaki ideolojik, bilişsel ve duygusal arka plana ilişkin kayda değer açıklamalara ve analizlere yer verir-ken, Türkiye bağlamında bu hususlar yeteri kadar dikkate alınmamaktadır. Bu durumun ideolojik, politik, sosyolojik ve akademik açılardan farklı nedenleri olduğunu düşündüre-cek gözlemler söz konusudur. Çalışma Türkiye bağlamında bu eksikliği göz önüne alarak politik kutuplaşmadaki ideolojik, bilişsel ve duygusal unsurların temellendiği tarihsel kö-kenlere odaklanmak suretiyle ilgili literatüre katkı yapmayı amaçlamaktadır.

Historical Origins of Political Polarization in Turkey/Collective Memory

This study will analyze the historical origins of the phenomenon of political polarization, which has been on the agenda recently in Turkey. While it is currently con-sidered as an increasing and a given situation in Turkey, the reasons for this phenomenon are sought in current political debates without analyzing the basic-structural causes. In most cases, consequences are considered as causes. In this context, how to explain the current high polarization level, it is an important issue to how to reveal the reasons and justifications? While the current literature explains the issue with the attitudes of political actors/elite or biased and biased news/information flow etc., it subordinates the ideolog-ical, cognitive and emotional background on which all this is based. While the interna-tional literature on political polarization includes notable explanations and analyzes of the ideological, cognitive and emotional background in political polarization, in the con-text of Turkey, these issues are not sufficiently taken into account. There are observations that suggest that this situation has different ideological, political, sociological and acacontribute to the literature by focusing on the historical origins on which ideological, cognitive and emotional elements of political polarization are based.

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