This article, on the 2017 amendments made to the 1982 Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, is written by Serap Yazici who is Professor of Constitutional Law at Istanbul Sehir University. The article was published in 2017 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author has written an earlier guide entitled ‘Guide to Turkish Public Law and Legal Research’ which focuses on the Constitution itself and amendments adopted between 1987 and 2010 (described in a separate record). In this article the author outlines the changes to the Constitution, introduced by the 2017 amendments, affecting the legislature, executive, the president and the judiciary. It also looks at the power now given to the President of the Republic to issue executive decrees.
Constitutional Amendments of 2017: Transition to Presidentialism in Turkey
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