Political Socialization Skills of Youth: Turkey

Parties and politicians seek to maintain their place in the political scene by conducting promotional efforts with the political marketing strategies they have implemented both during election periods and after their accession. The most important stage to learn whether these political marketing strategies are successful or not is the elections that are performed. In this process, one of the most important target groups of political actors has always been the youth cluster.The young people's behavior, socialization skills and value judgments have always maintained their leading position in the agenda of political parties and leaders, and have always maintained their influence on elections and political grounds. This article is written to show how all these processes have been perceived by the Turkish youth and it also includes the deductions of Turkish youth about the political marketing elements perceptions through the data and results of the survey related toyoung people's political stance on youth research across Turkey made by the companies GENAR in 2016 and 2017 RASAT Strategy