Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TOPLUM VE BILIM, sa.171, ss.5-25, 2025 (Hakemli Dergi)
Seeking to understand the crisis of republican constitutions in the first quarter of the twenty-first century through the lessons of the experiences of a hundred years ago, this study argues that the relationship between the state of emergency as a violation of limits and modern constitutionalism as an attempt to limit the state of emergency has reached a new impasse. In order to identify the new impasse, in which the state of emergency is transformed from the existence of crises justifying the state of emergency into a crisis itself, it is necessary to focus on the crisis atmosphere and the uses of the concept of crisis in the early twentieth century and, in particular, to analyze the transformations of the concept of crisis in its political context. In this respect, the constitutive debates on the suspension of the constitution and its limits are important for understanding the state of contemporary republics and for developing foresight for the future. In this context, Turkey’s current constitutional regime will be analyzed with reference to the Weimar experience.
Keywords: Weimar Constitution, state of emergency, crisis.