In Turkey
In Turkey people's houses (Turkish: Halk Evleri) were established in 1932, to give formal education to adults (Adult education). The People's House developed programs on language and literature, fine arts, library and publications, history and museum, drama, sports, social assistance, educational classes, and village development.
On July 2, 1932 the first Turkish History Conference was assembled in the Ankara People's House.
The activities of the people's houses were subsidized from the state treasury. It served all the people. Yaşar Kemal's early poems to be published besides his folklore studies in the journal of the "Adana People's House".
In 1945-1951, with the establishment of multi-party politics in Turkey, most of the initial initiatives supported by the Republican People's Party (RPP) began to be questioned. The opposition Democratic Party wanted to put an end to the People's Houses. DP perceived the People's Houses as a strong political institution among the civilians which propagates the RPP's point of view. First, DP wanted to cut the public expense from the government budged to the institution. RPP proposed to reorganize them instead of closing. RPP wanted to preserve the institution as an Atatürk's heritage. The DP, who criticized the houses for closely identifying with the RPP, rejected the proposal. The property of people's houses confiscated, after the DP had the majority in the Turkish Grand National Assembly in 1951.
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