anemonRecently, it has become quite common to evaluate populism with the ideational approach. Evaluating ideologies through a concept-based morphology, Michael Freeden's theoretical framework helps to explain populism. According to Freeden, ideologies are divided into two main categories, thick-centered and thin-centered ideologies. Populism is suitable to be defined as a thin-centered ideology with its structure that focuses on a limited number of issues-concepts and encompasses a narrow space. In this study, if we will consider populism as an ideology, a proposal is presented about what it’s the core and adjacent concepts might be. The core of populism is composed of four concepts that are people and its surrounding at concepts of elites,...