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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's 'Halkçılık and Devletçilik': A Comparison with Sun Yat-sen's Political Thought
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Abstract Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Sun Yat-sen are both great men who overturned the old system to open a new era and have ideas and guidelines for governing countries. Among the six principles of Kemalism, Halkçılık and Devletçilik have similar contents to Sun Yat-sen's The Principle of Democracy and The Pr... view more
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Sun Yat-sen are both great men who overturned the old system to open a new era and have ideas and guidelines for governing countries. Among the six principles of Kemalism, Halkçılık and Devletçilik have similar contents to Sun Yat-sen's The Principle of Democracy and The Principle of Livelihood. Kemal Atatürk does not literally mention "civil rights" and "people's livelihood” in six principles, but in Halkçılık asserts "people's rule" rather than autocracy, advocates that power comes from the people, and that the responsibility of the government is to seek welfare for the people. Kemal Atatürk's Devletçilik focuses on the state-led planned economy and protecting the private property of farmers, like in Sun Yat-sen's Thought of Livelihood. This paper consists of three parts. The first part compares Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Sun Yat-sen's main contributions and key thoughts, the second part Halkçılık and Devletçilik of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Sun Yat-sen's corresponding thought, and the third part the historical background and objective conditions of their ideas.... view less
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 40-49
Journal
BRIQ Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly, 3 (2022) 1
Issue topic
50th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations Between the Republic of Turkey and the People's Republic of China: Common Destiny, Shared Future
ISSN
2687-5896
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed