CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Ozcelik, Ozlem |
|---|---|
| Title | Party Closures as a Measure of Militant Democracy in Turkey |
| Summary | The thesis explores the concept and practice of militant democracy in Turkey, with the focus on party closures. After its establishment in 1961, the Constitutional Court of Turkey closed much higher number of political parties than other European countries that institutionalized militant democracy. Most of the parties that are closed by the Court are Kurdish nationalist, Islamist and socialist/communist parties. This thesis aims to explore the reason of this situation. First of all this study reveals that one of the reasons of the activism of the Court is the wide range of prohibitions offered by 1982 Constitution and the Law on Political Parties. By making analysis of the three party cases that represent three party categories frequently closed by the Turkish Constitutional, this study shows another reason of the frequent party closure practice in Turkey: the Court uses its power of interpretation to prioritize the state ideology as compared to freedom of assembly and association. |
| Supervisor | Dimitrijevic Nenad |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/ozcelik_ozlem.pdf |
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