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"The Political Power of The Turkish Bourgeoisie Has Been Increasing with Every Decade" Feroz Ahmad MERIP Reports, Volume 0, Issue 84 (Tan., 1980), 19-22. Stable URL: Lhtp:flinks,jstor-org/sici?sici~0047-7265%28 198001 %290%3A84%3C 19%3A %22PPOTT%3E2.0.CO%IBLR ‘Your use of the ISTOR archive indicates your acceptance of ISTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use, available at up: srw jstor org/aboutterms.html. ISTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, at unless you have obtained prior permission, you may aot download an entite issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and ‘you may use content in the ISTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the sereen or pfinted page of such transmission. MERIP Reports is published by Middle East Research and Information Project. Please contact the publisher for further permissions regarding the use ofthis work. Publisher contact information may be obtained lupo tor org/jouralsfenerip ht MERIP Reports ©1980 Middle Fast Research and Information Project ISTOR and the JSTOR logo are trademarks of JSTOR, and are Registered in the U.S, Patent and Trademark Otic. For more information on ISTOR contact jstor-nfo@umnich edu, (©2003 JSTOR hup:thrwwjstororgy Mon Mar 17 10:28:24 2003 Interview “The Political Power of The Turkish Bou Every Decade” Feroz Ahmad, author of The Turkish Experiment in Demo- ‘racy, visited Turkey for a month in the summer of 1979, after anabsence af two years, On November 12, 1979, MERIP editors Philip Khoury and foe Stork spoke with him at his home in Baston about recent political developments in Turkey. ‘One feature said to charact few years is the rise of a “prato-fascist” movement, That's oa simple. | see Turkey's problem as arising out of the development of capitalism in asaciety that started outwith the {all-blown legacy of semi-calonialism and underdevelopment, Look at the situation in Turkey since 1950, All this is of ane piece. Fascistic methods have been used, especially by the Nationalist Action Parry (NAP). But {see the NAP as the right- wing ofthe Justice Party JP) Inthe last election [.e.,the partial Senate and by-elections of Oct, 14, 1978] the fascist party was weaker electorally, What seems £0 be happening i that the movement isrevertingto a mare monolithic form, much ike it ‘was uncil 1969, when the right-wing of the JP broke up into a number of factions. The NAP, though it was founded before 1268, i a part of this tendency. You don’t agree with those who have detected a significant penetration of the Turkish state apparatus by right-wing para- military groups? The Turkish state has always been a state of the right since the founding of the Republic in 1923, But sfter Demirel came to power in 1965, the state apparatus did serve more openly the right-wing forces. In the period of the Nationalist Front ‘governiments [1975-7] the

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