The constitutional system of Turkey : 1876 to the present / Ergun Özbudun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Özbudun, Ergun.

Series:

Middle East today

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--Turkey.

Constitutional history.

Turkey.

Turkey--Politics and government--1878-1909.

Politics and government.

Turkey--Politics and government--1909-.

Physical Description:

185 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

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 though sixteen liberalizing amendments have been added since 1987, it has not been possible to completely liquidate this illiberal spirit, and so Turkey is in need of a totally new, liberal, and fully democratic constitution. The author analyzes in detail the search for such a constitution and the current constitutional debates. Book jacket.

Contents:

Historical background

The basic characteristics of the 1982 constitution

Fundamental rights and liberties

Parliament

The executive and the administration

The judiciary

Constitutional justice

Constitutional revisions

The constitutional crisis of 2007 and its aftermath and the search for a new constitution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-179) and index.

ISBN:

9780230121003

0230121004

OCLC:

709408086