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  • 5 - Debating State Organization Principles in the Constitutional Conciliation Commission

  • from Part III - Debating and Drafting the Constitution in 2011–2013
  • Edited by Felix Petersen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Zeynep Yanaşmayan
  • Book:
    The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey
    Published online:
    19 December 2019
    Print publication:
    16 January 2020, pp 145-182

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on the debates over fundamental principles of state organization that took place in the Constitutional Conciliation Commission ‘Anayasa Uzlaşma Komisyonu, AUK’ during Turkey’s 2011–2013 constitution-making process. It discusses the failure of popular constitution making as well as the most recent constitutional changes in the context of a tradition of statist, authoritarian constitutionalism in Turkey. We assess the extent to which disagreements over the fundamental nature of principles of state organization contributed to the failure of popular constitution making in 2013. Our inquiry shows that the diverging conceptions of democracy, separation of powers, and the rule of law of the different parties involved led to extreme tensions. Deep disagreements over these issues and others made compromise impossible. Therefore, the contested subjects subsumed under the principles of state organization contributed significantly to the failure of popular constitution making in Turkey, and cleared the path to majority imposition by the ruling party in subsequent constitution-making and amendment processes.