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Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Istanbul Commerce University, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Turkey
Approval Date: 2017
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: İBRAHİM İNAL
Supervisor: DAĞLAR MACAR OYA
Abstract:The state, which has emerged since ancient Greece to protect the life and property of its citizens who live under the roof, needs this basic function and some law enforcement agencies to maintain its own existence. Armed forces are at the forefront of the state-owned law enforcement agencies. As a rule, the armed forces or the army emerges as the number one element in providing internal and external security against internal and external threats towards society and the state. Historically, while armed forces have provided internal and external security, they have sometimes been required to intervene politically under the control of the civilian authority against an essential situation, sometimes traditionally, and, when necessary, disengaged the civil authority and become the main actor in politics. When considered in this context, the intervention of the politicians of the army in the Turkish political life emerges as an element which continues from the time of the Ottoman State until our recent history. Both in the Ottoman state and in the Republic of Turkey, the army had the right to intervene in politics to maintain the 'state and national protection' given to it and to place '' a self-controllable democracy on solid foundations '' and became the main actor in politics. Politics has been interfered many times with the thought that the army in Turkey receives from the tradition, the "holiness" in the eyes of the society, the state and the nation's bachelors, the function of the national state and the secular structure of the Republic itself. With this in mind, the army showed similarities with the guerrilla regimes and tutelage regimes, which indirectly directed politics with the memorials and interventions of 1971, 1997 and 2007, and assumed the guardian function, directly with the military coup of 1960 and 1980. However, as a country that is democratic and a candidate country for the EU, the liberal democracy consolidation of the army is necessary, in other words, in order to be depoliticized, professionalized and controlled by the civilian authority in Turkey. For this purpose, many liberal democratic applications have been made in Turkey and a new constitution has been made in the last period. In this respect, this study is important in terms of examining the interventions of Turkish civilian life in cause - effect relation, analyzing democratization and consolidation studies as a candidate country to the EU and examining the liberal democracy integration of the army and the work of a new constitution in the coming period.