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Exploring Recent Ideological Divides in Turkey: Political and Cultural Axes

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  • KINA, MEHMET FUAT

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This study analyzes Turkey's political landscape by harnessing Computational Social Science techniques to parse extensive data about public ideologies from the Politus database. Unlike existing theoretical framework that considers ideologies of political elites and cadres, this study examines public ideologies in a contentious political manner. It distills eight most prevalent ideologies down to the city level and employs unsupervised machine learning models. The Principal Component Analysis delineates two fundamental axes, the traditional left-right political spectrum and a separate spectrum of secular-religious inclination, namely political and cultural dimensions. Then, the Cluster Analysis reveals three distinct groups: left-leaning and religiously inclined, right-leaning and religiously inclined, and those with centrist views with a pronounced secular focus. The outcomes provide valuable insights into the political and cultural axes within political society, offering a clearer understanding of the most recent ideological and political climate in Turkey.

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  • Kina, Mehmet Fuat, 2024. "Exploring Recent Ideological Divides in Turkey: Political and Cultural Axes," SocArXiv kp7s2, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:kp7s2
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/kp7s2
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