Author
Arslanalp, M., Erkmen, Tülay Deniz
Publication Date
2020-01-02
Publication Place
-
Taylor & Francis
Subject
Political protests, Protest repression, Emergency rule, Competitive authoritarianism, Autocratisation, Democratic backsliding, Democratic rights
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
1360-8746
Record ID
7b3f60e7-5a85-434f-abb8-469d19ea25f1
Library Location
International Relations
Date
2020-01-02
Notes
Boazici University Research Fund ; IPC-Mercator Fellowship in Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik ; Ozyegin University
Sample Text
Following the coup attempt of 15 July 2016, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency that would last for two years. In this paper, we focus on an understudied aspect of this period, protest repression during the state of emergency, using an original dataset of protest bans issued in 2007-2019. Engaging with the theoretical claims of emergency scholarship, our paper demonstrates that emergency powers were used to target areas, groups, and issues that were not related to the 'urgency' underpinning emergency rule. Moreover, such derogations of rights were perpetuated after the termination of the state of emergency within so-called ordinary legality. These practices were nevertheless embedded in the already authoritarian political-institutional context of Turkey and its layered history of emergencies.
DOI
10.1080/13608746.2020.1748353
Cilt
25
