Alternative Political Participation Models to Multi-Party Life in the Single-Party Period Turkey

In Turkish political history, the multi-party political life which started with the 2nd Constitutionalist period was interrupted a few years after the declaration of the Republic and the single-party political period started in 1925. From 1930 onwards it has come to the fore to go through the single-party political system with the force of internal and external developments. With the establishment of the Free Republican Party (SCF-FRP) in 1930, a short multi-party system experiment was conducted, but it was not successful. After the closure of the SCF, the CHP administration tightly closed to an opposition party political system, but in a sense it embraced several political model practices that resembled pluralism. The mentioned models are methods such as independent member of parliament practice, Independent Group experiment, the second voters' opinion when parliamentary candidates are determined, and more candidates to be elected from parliamentary seats. In this study, the limited participation models that the CHP administration put into practice instead of allowing the public to fully participate in political decision-making processes will be addressed during the single-party period. The original side of our work is the collective examination of limited political participation models applied during the single-party era