Forum dergisi:1954-1960
Özet
This is a study of an important periodical published in Turkey in the mid 1950s named Forum. The Forum writers formulated a comprehensive set of views on democracy in Turkey and stood as a significant center of opposition to the increasingly authoritarian politics of the Democrat Party (DP) which came into office in 1950. Forum?s writers, most of whom were educated in the period 1923-1950, opposed the DP?s pragmatic approach to politics and wanted to center political life on reason and to eliminate conservative attitudes. Forum started to be published in April 1954. Forum had an influence on almost the whole of the Turkish intelligentsia in the years 1954-1960. The institutions and ideas suggested by Forum were realized to a large extent with the Constitution accepted after the military intervention in the year 1960. For example, the establishment of a second chamber of the legislative assmebly ?the Senate-, the constitutional court, the state planning organization, autonomous universities, independence of judges, free press, granting rights to strike and collective negotiations to workers, free opposition, the principal of social equality..etc that had all been discussed in the pages of Forum, found place in the Constitution 1961. So it is possible to claim that Forum Journal with its great contribution for the reconsolidation of the democratic regime demonstrated the higly significant role in Turkish political life.