Why had an autonomous civic culture not developed in Turkey by the 1980s?

In Turkey, the primacy given to party-political struggle has thwarted the potential for innovation present in society; it has prevented the development of an autonomous civic culture. It has also blocked the development of a deeply-felt identification by the public with democratic institutions.

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