The Attitudes of Political Parties towards Education: The 2011 Election Returns Examples of Justice and Development Party (AKP), Republican People's Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)

Education has an important place in the political party policies and political points of views. Not only the attitudes of political parties towards education reflect the ideological, political differences of them, but also it is in the mirror position of expectations and demands appearing on the field of education and training within the frame of modern and global developments. Considering this fact, the analysis, that will be made upon the election returns of the political parties, can be thought to be descriptive both about the political and ideological aspects of attitudes of political parties towards education, the developments in the field of education, needs and expectations and about the present conditions of the relation between politics and education and the education policies and the possible direction that education will take in the future. In this declaration, with reference to such a view, with the discourse analysis method, the 2011 general election returns of Justice and Development Party, Republican People's Party, Nationalist Movement Party which have groups in parliament and different political stances, are aimed to research comparatively.