1st Edition
Constitutional Law and Politics in Türkiye From Atatürk to Erdoğan
By Valentina Rita Scotti
Copyright 2026
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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This monograph offers a comprehensive and critical examination of Türkiye’s constitutional trajectory from the late Ottoman Empire to the presidential regime under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Bridging legal history, political theory, and constitutional analysis, the author interrogates the persistent tension between democratic aspirations and authoritarian consolidation in Turkish constitutionalism.... Read more
1. Introduction; 2. The Ottoman Empire: From ‘Constrained Absolutism’ to Constitutional Monarchy; 3. From Atatürk to Erdoğan: The Uncertain Constitutional Identity of Türkiye; 4. Constitutional Pillars: Secularism and Nationalism; 5. State Institutions from Tutelage to Autocracy; 6. Rights and Freedoms of Turks: Gifts by the Leadership; 7. Concluding Remarks; 8. Bibliography
Biography
Valentina Rita Scotti is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the European Law and Governance School of the European Public Law Organization, Italy.
