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HOVHANNISYAN TARON
(YSU)
TURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF
LIMITATION OF ARMY’S ROLE IN POLITICAL PROCESSES (2010-2016)
The article discusses the constitutional amendments in Turkey in the
context of limitation of Turkey’s armed forces’ role in the civic life
implemented by Justice and Development Party (AKP) during its second stage
of power. In this period some of the privileges of Turkey’s army have already
been eliminated, but the military forces were still sacred.
The main purpose of the work is to present the methods and measures
that were used by the Government to put army under control of civil power,
and outcomes of it. This article clarifies that if the amendments made by AKP
until 2010 were related to the limitation of army’s influence in the civil
power, after 2010 with the constitutional amendment Turkey’s authorities
aim to decrease “self-satisfaction” and reshape ideological basis in the army by
discreditation.
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