Review article
https://doi.org/10.31141/zrpfs.2017.54.126.947
Republic of Turkey in Light of Referendum Results from 16. 04. 2017- Return to the Past in the Footsteps of the „Chosen Sultan“
Vedran Zlatić
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Abstract
The Constitutional referendum held 16.04. 2017. has brought many changes in the constitutional regulation of the Republic of Turkey. Elected constitutional changes have brought the danger that this country moves from the path of constitutional democracy to the autocratic rule of one person. However, to better understand this kind of change on the Turkish political scene, it will be necessary to take into consideration of the historical inheritance which to a large extent provides the decisive impulse to the current political regulation of the country. It is precisely because of this that this paper also focusses on the historical development of the constitutionality of this country together with emphasising all the factors which have played and are still playing a large role. Only with such consideration of the whole picture can an assessment of the situation today and certain assumptions about the future political development of relations in this country be made. Therefore, in the first part of this paper the development of the constitutionality of the Republic of Turkey is shown and after that there follows an assessment of the current situation, in particular, possible future developments according to the recently adopted constitutional changes. Above all, both the role of the most significant politicians is taken into account as well as the role of the extra political factors which have shaped and directed constitutional development of this country.
Keywords
Republic of Turkey; constitutional changes; constitution; Erdogan; constitutional referendum; AKP; CHP; kemalism
Hrčak ID:
189032
URI
Publication date:
7.11.2017.
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