Erdogan's presidential regime and strategic legalism: Turkish democracy in the twilight zone
SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN AND BLACK SEA STUDIES, cilt.20, sa.2, ss.265-287, 2020 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 20 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2020
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/14683857.2020.1745418
- Dergi Adı: SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN AND BLACK SEA STUDIES
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Historical Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Political Science Complete, Public Affairs Index, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.265-287
- Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
President Erdogan and the AKP government initiated a comprehensive restoration process immediately after the failed coup in mid-July 2016. In fact, the country has been experiencing a very comprehensive and violent regime transformation since this time. I assert that recent political developments paved the way for institutionalization of a 'plebiscitary presidential regime' that depends on a particular combination of supreme power of the leader, an extremely weak parliament, and elections of a plebiscitary character. In this context, the paper aims to shed light on the role of the new strategic legalism which allows rule of law to be replaced by a rule by law approach, the executive prerogative principle to be dominant, and the law to be used for demobilization, all playing a highly critical role in the suppression of democratic opposition.