Vahap Göksu

It is obvious that there is an interaction between political identities and cities which can be said as a result of socializing trends and gregariousness of the needs of people. Because individuals who live in society cannot merely define their identity with the relations between the other members of the society and influenced by sociocultural factors. Individual's political identity also as a result of relations which are established by individuals with objects, places and environment. In this context, environment and thus cities can be said to be significantly effective on political identity. History of the communities is formed with cultures and geography which communities are kneaded in. The identity of the city, occurs in this historical process, happens influenced by every changed and transformation in society. Thus cities on the one hand host tangible environment and social life on the other hand creates a character as a result of every socio-cultural changing which lives in society. For this reason, any case is reflected both from society to city and from city to society, any differentiation affects the city's identity and raises new results. In this sense, the identity of the city express a complete structure which is as the image of natural, socioeconomic and built environment. In this study primarily examined the concept of city and urban identity and discussed the effect of the urban identity on the political identity and political behaviors. Thereafter, starting from the thought that the elections which political identities concretizes and then turn into behavior, for the Konya province recent years local and general elections were examined and was tried to make a political identity analysis from the results.

Political parties, in the position of a component of democracies with vital importance and still the most important participation instrument of today, participate in the political life with certain aim sand reasons. In shaping of these aims and reasons, the ideological fundamentals the parties are based on are highly effective. It is assumed that at least, in theory, the policies the parties implemented; the principles being effective in arising of these policies; manners and attitudes shown in the face of any event, situation, and contentious problem; and numerous political activities such as the activities they organized or participated in are determined and come into existence in the frame of these ideologies and the values possessed This study aims to study the ideological backgrounds of three major parties finding place in Parliament (JDP, RPP and NMP), acquiring the votes of about 80 percent of voters in Turkey for ten years, are based on In this direction, also considering the values and symbols the parties of interest from past to the present day and carrying out an analysis about their ideological backgrounds through the policies they have introduced and the actions and rhetoric they have produced, their distinctions and skills are attempted to be analyzed.