Turkey's New State in the Making: Transformations in Legality, Economy and Coercion - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178699870X ISBN 13: 9781786998705

Publisher: Zed Books, 2020

Synopsis

Since the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKP's temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political clashes, ascending police operations, extra-judicial executions, suppression of the media and political opposition, systematic violation of the constitution and fundamental human rights, and the one-man-rule of President Erdogan have become the identifying characteristics of Turkish politics. The failed coup attempt on 15th July 2016 further impaired the situation as the government declared emergency rule at the end of which a political regime defined as the “Presidential Government System” was established in July 2018.

Turkey's New State in the Making examines the historical specificities of the ongoing AKP-led radical state transformation in Turkey within a global, legal, financial, ideological, and coercive neoliberal context. Arguing that rather than being an exception, the new Turkish state has the potential to be a model for political transformations elsewhere, problematizing how specific policies the AKP adapted to refract social dispositions have been radically redefining the republican, democratic and secular features of the modern Turkish state.

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About the Author

Pinar Bedirhanoglu is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178699870X
• ISBN 13: 9781786998705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Bedirhanoglu Pinar, Dölek Çaglar, Hülagü Funda, Kaygusuz Özlem