Turkey's New State in the Making

Transformations in Legality, Economy and Coercion

Pinar Bedirhanoglu, Çaglar Dölek, Funda Hülagü, Özlem Kaygusuz, Pinar Bedirhanoglu, Çaglar Dölek, Funda Hülagü, Özlem Kaygusuz

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781786998729
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
• Subtopic: Geopolitik

Since the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKP's temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political clashes, ascending police operations, extra-judicial executions, suppression of the media and political opposition, systematic violation of the constitution and fundamental human rights, and the one-man-rule of President Erdogan have become the identifying characteristics of Turkish politics. The failed coup attempt on 15th July 2016 further impaired the situation as the government declared emergency rule at the end of which a political regime defined as the "Presidential Government System" was established in July 2018. Turkey's New State in the Making examines the historical specificities of the ongoing AKP-led radical state transformation in Turkey within a global, legal, financial, ideological, and coercive neoliberal context. Arguing that rather than being an exception, the new Turkish state has the potential to be a model for political transformations elsewhere, problematizing how specific policies the AKP adapted to refract social dispositions have been radically redefining the republican, democratic and secular features of the modern Turkish state.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements and Beyond
• Introduction: Putting the Akp-Led State Transformation in Its Neoliberal Historical Context: Appendix: the Course of Events in the 2010S in Turkey
• Part I: Global Political Context of State Transformation
• 1. Social Constitution of the Akp’s Strong State Through Financialization: State in Crisis, or Crisis State?
• 2. Deconstitutionalization and the State Crisis in Turkey: The Role of the Turkish Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights
• 3. Turkey’s Double Movement: Islamists, Neoliberalism and Foreign Policy
• 4. A Shift of Axis or Business as Usual?: Turkey’S S-400 Procurement Decision and Defence Industry
• Part II: Politics of Economic Management
• 5. Understanding the Recent Rise of Authoritarianism in Turkey in Terms of the Structural Contradictions of the Process of Capital Accumulation
• 6. Turkey’s Financial Slide: Discipline By Credit in the Last Decade of the Akp’s Rule
• 7. The Akp’s Move From Depoliticization to Repoliticization in Economic Management
• 8. The Akp’s Income-Differentiated Housing Strategies Under the Pressure of Resistance and Debt
• Part III: Politics of Domination
• 9. The Transformation of the State–Religion Relationship Under the Akp: The Case of the Diyanet
• 10. From Military Tutelage to Nowhere: On the Limitations of Civil–Military Dualism in Making Sense of the Rise of Authoritarianism in Turkey in the 2010S
• 11. Courtrooms as Solidarity Spaces and Trials as Sentences: Defending Your Rights and Asking for Accountability in Turkey
• 12. Seta: From the Akp’s Organic Intellectuals to Ak-Paratchiks
• Part IV: Politics of Coercion
• 13. Domesticating Politics, De-Gendering Women: State Violence Against Politically Active Women in Turkey
• 14. The War on Drugs: A View From Turkey
• 15. ‘The Law of the City?’: Social War, Urban Warfare and Dispossession on the Magin
• Index