Türk Siyasetinde slam Demokrat Partisi ve Kamuoyundaki Yank lar Islam/// Democrat Party in the Turkish Politics and Its Reflections on the Public Opinion

This article examines the Islam Democrat Party (IDP) and the ideas of its founder Cevat Rifat Atilhan. The party appealed to Islam for its political ends and was shut down by a court order because of its anti-secularist and “reactionary” discourse. This article argues that the Islam Democrat Party led the politicization of Islam in Turkey and paved the road for the rise of “National Outlook” Movement and Islamist politics in the 1970s. The anti-Semitic discourse of the National Outlook Movement and its “Islamic Unity” project were largely adopted from the thoughts of Atilhan and the IDP.