The Turkish parliament on democracy
PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS, cilt.60, sa.3, ss.388-408, 2007 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 60 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2007
- Doi Numarası: 10.1093/pa/gsm030
- Dergi Adı: PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.388-408
- Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
This paper reviews the discourse of democracy employed by members of parliament in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) during the plenary debates on constitutional amendments in 1995. It seeks to understand the variety of meanings attributed to democracy and democratisation by the Turkish parliament, assuming that the priorities emphasised in parliamentary debates reveal basic dynamics of the process of Turkish democratisation. The analysis of the discourse of democracy in the Turkish parliament is significant for two reasons: the priorities emphasised in parliamentary debates reveal basic dynamics of the process of Turkish democratisation and the variety of meanings associated with democracy by the TGNA represents, for the most part, prevailing ideas about democracy to the public sphere in Turkey. In doing so, the study aims at displaying not only the dominant frames of interpretation concerning democratisation in the representatives' discourse, but also the limitations of this discourse itself.