Abstract

This study investigated the effects of education on the political values as the research question and attempted to analyze this question. Two samples among the 1st and 4th year students of the university are drawn and the political values of the subjects in said samples are compared as for their political values.

It is observed that some political values which were dominant among the 1st year students appear to be further strengthened and some political values appeared to have transformed into new political values among the 4th year students. As for the quantity of change in the political values with respect to genders is compared, it is observed that female students have experienced a more intensive change than male students, and that the former adopted a stronger political consciousness than the latter. It is further observed that they adopted more active political values. As for the ethnic belongingness dimension, it is concluded that the students who identified themselves as “Kurdish” tend to have a more political identity, give a lot of importance to ethnic identity, and integrate into the state institutions less than those who identified themselves as “Turkish”.