Series list; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The people: Legitimacy and mobilisation in Turkish politics; Chapter 2: Situating the people in the foundational narratives of the early Turkish republic; Chapter 3: The sovereign people in anxious times; Chapter 4: Sovereignty, legitimacy and the voice of the people; Chapter 5: The politics of the repressed; Chapter 6: A difficult democracy: populism and the people in Turkish politics; Chapter 7: Life after populism?; Conclusion; References; Index.