YUNANİSTAN’DA PANHELLENİK SOSYALİST HAREKETİN (PASOK) KURULUŞU VE İKTİDARA YÜKSELİŞİ (1974-1981)
THE FOUNDATION AND RISE TO POWER OF THE PANHELLENIC SOCIALIST MOVEMENT (PASOK) IN GREECE (1974-1981)

Summary/Abstract: The fall of the Junta of Colonels, which had been reining in Greece since 1967, in the summer of 1974 ushered the transition into parliamentary democracy in the country. On 3 September 1974, at the very beginning of this transition process, Andreas Papandreou announced the founding of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and the Party came to the power in 1981. Panhellenic Socialist Movement became one of the two most important political parties, or even the first, along with New Democracy in the Greek political scene after 1974, when the democracy was restored. The political and cultural “change” brought into by Papandreou and his party left its mark in Greece both during the second half of the 1970s, when the Party was in opposition, and during the 1980s and first half of the 1990s, when it was in power. In this study, the establishment and development process of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement has been analysed. The study covers the period between 1974, when the party appeared on the political scene, and 1981 when it came to the power. The purpose of the study, which focuses on the Movement, is to shed light on Greece’s post-junta political system and the characteristics of parties in terms of the studied period.

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