Democratization and the politics of constitution-making in turkey

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Label

Democratization and the politics of constitution-making in turkey

Statement of responsibility

Ergun Özbudun and Ömer F. Gençkaya

Creator

• Özbudun, Ergun
• Özbudun, Ergun

Contributor

• Gençkaya, Ömer Faruk
• Gençkaya, Ömer Faruk

Subject

• Democratization -- Turkey
• Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1980-
• Constitutional history -- Turkey

Language

eng

Summary

Explores and illustrates how domestic and international factors shape the direction of democratization process with special reference to constitution making process in Turkey. Describes how all five Turkish constitutions were, by and large, the products of indigenous effort, although borrowing could be felt in certain limited areas. Argues that the constitutional reforms in the post-1983 period were the outco me of broad inter-party negotiations and agree ments as a response to the society's demands for a more democratic and liberal political system. Finally, the constitutional revisions adopted since 1995 were strongly conditioned by Turkey's hope of accession to the European Union. With these reforms, Turkey was successful in meeting the political criteria and started accession negotiations with the EU

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

320.9561

Index

index present

LC call number

JQ1809.A15

LC item number

O48 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography