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POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE TRADITION OF ORDER Let today be a day to remember Attila İlhan's thoughts on political parties. I would say that it is the right time to remember Attila Abi, as we witness the multiplication of parties by division or establishment and their numbers reaching hundreds. Moreover, the formation of parties seems to gain momentum after the last election... Attila İlhan attributed the parties that were opened one after another after the 1980 coup to the tradition of order in Anatolia. He recommends us all to read Abdülkadir Gölpınarlı's book Sects and Order. He gave striking examples of how orders were divided into dozens of branches in Anatolia: The Qadiriyya order had 10 branches, the Rifai order had 13 branches, and our divided political parties that were established definitely seemed to take their cue from the tradition of order. They were dividing and dividing, they were being established and then dividing again, and the game was being set up again with the same people. He wrote in his article titled Establishing a Party: “During the reign of Abdulhamid, when political activity was banned, an indefinite number of ‘committees’ were established. As soon as freedom was declared, a whole basket of sects were opened. During the second constitutional monarchy, 13 sects were established, and interestingly, they all emerged from one another. Parties multiplied by dividing like amoebas, probably taking their cue from religious orders.” Watch...