Atilla Yayla a professor in Gazi Universitys Economics and Administrative Sciences Department attended a panel discussion on Social Reflections of the EU Process along with columnist of Zaman newspaper Ali Bulaç and AKP MP Zekeriye Akçam on 18 November 2006. The discussion was organised by the governmental party AKPs (Justice and Development Party) Izmir Youth Branch. Yayla said at the discussion that he could divide the developments in post-1923 Turkey into two main phase (as 1923-45, and 1950 and after), and since the first phase was not a success in such terms, Kemalism could not be assessed as a process which brought civilisation; hence it had a regressive character.
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