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AbstractContemporary Turkey has gone through many reforms that have been legitimized by country's historical legacy. The constitutive elements of this legacy are images, historical figures, events, and symbolisms embedded in memory. It is through those elements that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the leader of the Justice and Development Party sets himself up as the appropriate narrator and appropriate doer, incrementally gaining an upper hand in the legitimacy struggles by telling stories from history, emerging as the new founding father of Turkey and introducing new policies rooted in the legacy of the past. How has he been able to occupy such a position of superiority through the struggles for legitimacy in Turkish politics? This paper critically argues that Erdoğan first set up his personality, imposing himself as the most appropriate narrator and finally showing himself to be the most appropriate doer, by crafting his political communication with symbols and figures from history.

DergiPark: 371409 ; trakyasobed ; The aim of this paper is to analyze "the return to bosom of the nation"discourse voiced by the opposition parties in Turkish politics in certaincircumstances, which seems to be a project that had never been realized. It isa political strategy envisaged forovercoming a political crisesthrough mass resignation of theopposition party's representatives from the parliament. Within this framework,the subject was classified according to political periods and each specificcase was analyzed and compared with the other cases.Aiming to take the legal political activity out of the parliament and tomobilize people around the opposition, this political strategy intends to makeradical changes in the functioning of the political system. From thisperspective this work is set out to contribute to the literature throughdetermining under which political conditions this strategy voiced by theopposition appears and whether it is a realizable and successful politicalmaneuver or not ; Bu çalışma Türk siyasal hayatında muhalefetpartilerinin kimi durumlarda dile getirdikleri ancak hiçbir zamangerçekleştiremedikleri bir proje olarak kalan "sine-i millete dönüş" söyleminikonu edinmektedir. Sine-i millete dönüş, muhalefet partilerinin kriz anlarındabir çıkış noktası olarak düşündükleri parlamentodan toplu şekilde istifa etmestratejisidir Bu çerçevede sine-imillete dönüş söyleminin parti politikası olarak tartışıldığı dönemlerbelirlenmiş, her olay kendi özelinde değerlendirilerek dönemsel bazdatartışmaların ortak noktaları tespit edilmiştir. Meşru siyaseti, parlamentodançıkararak halk zeminine taşımayı amaçlayan ve muhalefete halkı da ortak etmeamacı güden bu politik strateji, bir meşruiyet sorunu yaratarak siyasalsistemin işleyişinde köklü değişiklikler yapmayı hedeflemektedir. Bu bağlamdaçalışmamız muhalefet tarafından zaman zaman dile getirilen bu stratejinin hangikoşullar altında gündeme geldiğini, uygulanabilirliğini ve başarılı bir siyasalmanevra olup olmayacağını belirlemeyi amaçlamaktadır.