The constitutional system of Turkey
Subtitle: 1876 to the present
By: Ergun Özbudun
Series: Middle East today
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780230121003
Subjects: Constitutional history; Politics and government
Description: While providing an analysis of Ottoman-Turkish constitutional developments since the first constitution of 1876, this book focuses on the present constitutional system of Turkey based on the Constitution of 1982. This Constitution, a product of the military regime of 1980-1983, strongly reflects the authoritarian, statist and tutelary mentality of its military founders, as well as their deep distrust for civilian politics. Even after sixteen liberalizing amendments since 1987, it has not been possible to completely liquidate this illiberal spirit, hence Turkey's need for a totally new, liberal, and fully democratic constitution. The author analyzes in detail the search for such a constitution and the current constitutional debates.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical background; title: The basic characteristics of the 1982 constitution; title: Fundamental rights and liberties; title: Parliament; title: The executive and the administration; title: The judiciary; title: Constitutional justice; title: Constitutional revisions; title: The constitutional crisis of 2007 and its aftermath and the search for a new constitution.