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List of contents
Part I. Introduction: Introduction Felix Petersen and Zeynep Yanasmayan; 1. Explaining the failure of popular constitution making in Turkey (2011-13) Felix Petersen and Zeynep Yanämayan; Part II. Contextualizing Constitution Making in Turkey: 2. The people and its embodiment: authoritarian foundations of constitutions in Turkey Ertu¿ Tombu¿; 3. Regime cycles, constitution making, and the political system question in Ottoman and Turkish constitutional developments ¿ule Özsoy Boyunsuz; 4. Illiberal media and popular constitution making in Turkey Burcu Baykurt; Part III. Debating and Drafting the Constitution in 2011-13; 5. Debating state organization principles in the constitutional Conciliation Commission Gözde Böcü and Felix Petersen; 6. Glass half full: drafting fundamental rights in the Turkish constitution-making process (2011-13) Oya Yegen and Zeynep Yanämayan; 7. Countermajoritarian institutions in Turkish constitution making Maria Abad Andrade; 8. Debating the amendment-making rule: the rigidity vs. flexibility debate in the Turkish constitution-making process Oya Yegen.
About the author
Felix Petersen is the Minerva Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Richard Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include modern political thought, constitutional politics, theory of democracy, and German and Turkish politics. He is a co-author of the forthcoming book The Constitutional Court of Turkey: Judicial Politics between Authoritarianism and Democracy.Zeynep Yanasmayan is a senior research fellow and coordinator of the Max Planck Society-funded research initiative 'The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion' at the Department of Law and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her research interests include migration and citizenship studies, governance of religious diversity, law and society and Turkish politics. She is the author of The Migration of Highly Educated Turkish Citizens to Europe: From Guestworkers to Global Talent (2019), and co-editor of Belief, Law and Politics: What Future for Secular Europe? (2014).
Summary
This book details the conditions leading to the failure of constitution making and constitutional reform in Turkey, and offers lessons that can be applied elsewhere. It will appeal to scholars and students of constitutional politics and be valuable supplementary reading for undergraduate and graduate courses in Turkish studies.
