After being informed of a possible assassination, PM Erdoğan was protected by an army of bodyguards during Last Friday’s prayer…
YAVUZ BAYDAR – ?Nomenklatura? assembling for a new fight for blockage
Turkey reforms give top brass over to civilian court – washingtonpost.com
ETYEN MAHÇUPYAN – The Armenian issue in the election year
FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK – Turkey?s politicized judiciary
Today’s Zaman
Following the beginning of the Ergenekon investigation, serious opposition from the judiciary began to arise when the investigation spread as far as retired
[CROSS READER] Background of top judiciary?s resistance to reform
EMRE USLU – The constitutional reform and the MHP?s strategy
FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK – No end in sight for constitutional reform debate
Abramowitz and Barkey on the AKP and the Future of Turkey
In an insightful piece in The Wall Street Journal, former Ambassador to Turkey and Century Foundation Senior Fellow Morton Abramowitz and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Vistiting Fellow Henri Barkey give a brief summary analysis of recent goings-on in Turkey. From the piece: Shortly after the 2002 AKP electoral victory, elements of the Turkish military, including senior commanders, began worrying that the AKP would transform Turkey from the secular democracy inherited from Ataturk to a more religious and authoritarian state. Some, as we now know, began plotting against the new government. Their fears turned out to be correct, not because the AKP has turned Turkey into an Islamic state?it has not and is not likely to?but because it has gone very far in eliminating the military’s role in Turkish political life. That is an extraordinary achievement, although it is not AKP’s alone. Rather, it is the result of a profound and long-coming societal change?namely, the emergence of a conservative and pious middle class.
Turkey’s Madisonian Dilemma: The Constitution and Why “Neighborhood Pressure” Matters
On Monday the AKP made public its proposed package of constitutional amendments over stark protestations from opposition parties and some figures in the judicary who have issued public statements against the package. There is dissent about both the content of the amendments, as well as allegations about the AKP’s intentions and the means the party is employing to push the package into law.
Lawyer Erdal: Everyone has their own judiciary
Meryem Erdal, who authored the study ?Everyone has their own judiciary?? for the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), has said some news items and commentaries are shocking in terms of the way they defend the deep state.Les juges protestent contre la réforme de la Constitution en Turquie
La Croix (France), 29 mars 2010
Delphine Nerbollier, à Istanbul
Le gouvernement turc présente demain une réforme constitutionnelle qui limite l?influence des hautes cours de justice. Le bras de fer avec la justice est relancé.
Le gouvernement turc consulte à tout-va. Partis d?opposition, organisations économiques, syndicats, journalistes locaux et étrangers?, le parti au pouvoir, l?AKP (Parti de la justice et du développement) tente de faire comprendre l?enjeu du paquet de réformes constitutionnelles qui sera présenté demain au Parlement. Il prévoit de modifier 23 articles de la Constitution actuelle, héritée du coup d?État militaire de 1980.
Why this stubbornness? Why not change the Constitution? by Levent Köker
One reflection of the draft proposal publicized by some Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputies who were considering referring it to Parliament as a package of constitutional amendments was the following headline published on the front page of the Milliyet daily: ?Why this stubbornness?? Really, why this stubbornness?Discover more from Erkan's Field Diary
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