Left Kemalism

Left Kemalism is a political and ideological movement in Turkey that synthesizes the principles of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk with left-wing, Marxist, or socialist politics, viewing the republican-era modernization and the Turkish War of Independence as a revolutionary, anti-imperialist progression. This ideology, which exerted a major influence on Turkish political life particularly during the 1960s, aimed to rescue Turkey from underdevelopment through a statist-developmentist approach and via a "non-capitalist path" (typically through a form of socialist-nationalism.)