The two-pillared laicism of the Turkish Constitutional Court: from the 1970s to the 1990s

The dominant scholarly view on Turkish political history, namely the ‘centre-periphery’ approach, has vociferously put forward the judicial and military elites as anchors of an entrenched unitary historical bloc, bequeathed by the Ottoman bureaucratic cadre, which had relentlessly defended a conspic...

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Main Author: Özdemir, Emrah (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2024
In: Politics, religion & ideology
Year: 2024, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 243–266
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