Martial Law as a Pulling Mechanism and Civil Military Relations in Turkey
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Tarih
2023
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Scandinavian Military Studies
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
There is a consensus in research on civil-military relations (CMR) that militaries actively
“push” to involve themselves in politics to increase their authority, even in the face of
opposition from civilian authorities. However, political authorities may, also, “pull” the
military into politics. The paper examines the period of martial law declared in Turkey
in 1974, which continued under three successive governments, and a second period
of martial law declared in 1978, as mechanisms of pulling led by civilian authorities.
Based on parliamentary debates and official documents, this paper argues that civilian
decisions for the use of the military in the context of martial law merged with the
functional dimension of the role conception of the Turkish military (that is, roughly,
the consensus regarding the institution’s purpose) and paved the way toward military
domination of decision-making, triggering the pushing mechanism and the military’s
active participation in politics.
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pulling; civil-military relations; martial law; Turkey; pushing
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Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies
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6
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