This is why the crisis over the presidential election was actually a crisis of
the constitutional order that was installed by the military when it ruled from 1980-1983. That constitution – unlike Ataturk’s – was written by and for the military on the assumption that the Cold War would never ever end, and that the President would always have to be either a military person or someone very close to the military of Turkey. But the Cold War is long over, and a lot has since changed in Turkey. An IMF supported program in 2001 unleashed rapid economic growth, based on Turkey’s gradual but definitive transformation into a market led economy.
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the constitutional order that was installed by the military when it ruled from 1980-1983. That constitution – unlike Ataturk’s – was written by and for the military on the assumption that the Cold War would never ever end, and that the President would always have to be either a military person or someone very close to the military of Turkey. But the Cold War is long over, and a lot has since changed in Turkey. An IMF supported program in 2001 unleashed rapid economic growth, based on Turkey’s gradual but definitive transformation into a market led economy.For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007
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