- Marmara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilimler Dergisi
- Vol: 11 Issue: 1
- Fascist Discourses in the Single-Party Period: The Case of 1942 Wealth Tax in the Cumhuriyet Newspap...
Fascist Discourses in the Single-Party Period: The Case of 1942 Wealth Tax in the Cumhuriyet Newspaper
Authors : Özlem Özdeşim Subay, Ferihan Polat, Emel Dikbaş Torun
Pages : 180-199
Doi:10.14782/marmarasbd.1216850
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Publication Date : 2023-03-28
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Fascism, which sometimes defends racial superiority through its emphasis on consanguinity, often makes the distinction between "us” and "them” in the form of discriminatory language in daily life. Despite the Single Party Period in Turkey between 1923 and 1950 being characterized as an authoritarian regime, some implications during World War II as the Wealth Tax Law are claimed to contain fascist components. Though it mainly covers the commercial bourgeoisie, subsidiary farmers, some claims state that this tax targeted non-Muslims and Jewish people especially. The aim of this study is to understand whether the Single Party Period in Turkey produced fascist discourse in ordinary daily life in the case of the Wealth Tax Law. For this purpose, in this study the news texts and articles about the 1942 Wealth Tax Law in the newspaper Cumhuriyet are examined using a discourse–historical approach with the strategies of predication and argumentation.Keywords : Varlık Vergisi, , faşizan söylem, söylem stratejileri, söylem-tarihsel yaklaşım