Mobile emergency rule in Turkey: legal repression of protests during authoritarian transformation

Name: Mobile emergency rule in Turkey: legal repression of protests during authoritarian transformation
Author: Arslanalp, M., Erkmen, Tülay Deniz

İsim	Mobile emergency rule in Turkey: legal repression of protests during authoritarian transformation
Yazar	Arslanalp, M., Erkmen, Tülay Deniz
Basım Tarihi:	2020-05-17
Basım Yeri	- Taylor & Francis
Konu	Authoritarianism, Democratic backsliding, Protest repression, Emergency powers, Turkey, Rule of law
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	1351-0347
Kayıt Numarası	fd1a7be3-fe7f-4ec1-9e15-ff0ed1cad754
Lokasyon	International Relations
Tarih	2020-05-17
Notlar	Bogazici University
Örnek Metin	One of the challenges of autocratizing governments in regimes with nominally democratic institutions is how to repress fundamental democratic rights while claiming to uphold the rule of law. Post-9/11 socio-legal debates point to the emergency rule as a legal framework within democratic constitutions that can be potentially used to hollow out citizens' rights. But the study of emergency rule is often limited to its enactment under extraordinary situations. This article takes the crucial case of Turkey's authoritarian transformation and develops the concept of mobile emergency rule to argue that emergency-like suspensions of rights also occur in highly localized and temporary forms in the absence of an officially declared state of emergency. Based on an original dataset, it examines all legal bans on protests issued by authorities between 2007 and 2018 in the name of maintaining order and security. The results illustrate how the use of this tool dovetailed with key turning points of authoritarian transformation in Turkey and reflected the changing needs of the regime as it tried to build and sustain a new hegemonic project. In effect, mobile emergency rule created a highly ambiguous terrain for protest rights even before the declaration of state of emergency in July 2016.
DOI	10.1080/13510347.2020.1753701
Cilt	27

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Mobile emergency rule in Turkey: legal repression of protests during authoritarian transformation

Yazar Arslanalp, M., Erkmen, Tülay Deniz

Basım Tarihi 2020-05-17

Basım Yeri - Taylor & Francis

Konu Authoritarianism, Democratic backsliding, Protest repression, Emergency powers, Turkey, Rule of law

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 1351-0347

Kayıt Numarası fd1a7be3-fe7f-4ec1-9e15-ff0ed1cad754

Lokasyon International Relations

Tarih 2020-05-17

Notlar Bogazici University

Örnek Metin One of the challenges of autocratizing governments in regimes with nominally democratic institutions is how to repress fundamental democratic rights while claiming to uphold the rule of law. Post-9/11 socio-legal debates point to the emergency rule as a legal framework within democratic constitutions that can be potentially used to hollow out citizens' rights. But the study of emergency rule is often limited to its enactment under extraordinary situations. This article takes the crucial case of Turkey's authoritarian transformation and develops the concept of mobile emergency rule to argue that emergency-like suspensions of rights also occur in highly localized and temporary forms in the absence of an officially declared state of emergency. Based on an original dataset, it examines all legal bans on protests issued by authorities between 2007 and 2018 in the name of maintaining order and security. The results illustrate how the use of this tool dovetailed with key turning points of authoritarian transformation in Turkey and reflected the changing needs of the regime as it tried to build and sustain a new hegemonic project. In effect, mobile emergency rule created a highly ambiguous terrain for protest rights even before the declaration of state of emergency in July 2016.

DOI 10.1080/13510347.2020.1753701

Cilt 27