Tanel Demirel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4121213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanel Demirel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanel |
| FAMILY NAME | Demirel |
| SIGNATURE | DEMIREL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Political Science and International Relations, Cankaya University, 06530 Ankara, Turkey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lessons of Military Regimes and Democracy
This article aims to highlight the point that the nature of an outgoing authoritarian regime does matter for a new democracy. It discusses the Turkish case. The military interludes in Turkey have hardly been perceived as highly repressive by a significant proportion of civilians, nor have those periods been regarded as failures in political, economic, or military terms. This very experience with the military regimes was one of the reasons why civ…
Soldiers and civilians
The military in Turkey continues to wield powers that might be regarded as anomalous for a liberal democracy.' This article aims to shed light on the problematic nature of Turkish civil-military relations. It starts from the assumption that civil-military relations are power relations and for that reason they cannot be properly grasped if one side of the equation is sidestepped. Civil-military relations are power relations because they refer to a…
The Turkish Military's Decision to Intervene
This article analyzes the Turkish military's decision to take over the government on 12 September 1980. It argues that just because the military believed itself to be a true guardian state, it easily considered intervention a legitimate solution. The perceived threats to the integrity of the Republican state posed by rampant terrorism were the key elements driving soldiers towards intervention. In retrospect, the military's willingness to learn f…
Turkey's Troubled Democracy
The advent of democracy in Turkey has been far from tranquil. Since the transition to multiparty politics in 1946, democracy has been interrupted by three military interventions (in 1960, 1971, and 1980)- unless we count as the fourth intervention the more recent incident, euphemistically labeled “the 28 February Process,” in which the military played a crucial role in forcing the resignation of the governing coalition led by the Islamist-oriente…
The press and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey
(1996). The press and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 109-123.
Soldiers and civilians
The military in Turkey continues to wield powers that might be regarded as anomalous for a liberal democracy.' This article aims to shed light on the problematic nature of Turkish civil-military relations. It starts from the assumption that civil-military relations are power relations and for that reason they cannot be properly grasped if one side of the equation is sidestepped. Civil-military relations are power relations because they refer to a…
The Turkish Military's Decision to Intervene
This article analyzes the Turkish military's decision to take over the government on 12 September 1980. It argues that just because the military believed itself to be a true guardian state, it easily considered intervention a legitimate solution. The perceived threats to the integrity of the Republican state posed by rampant terrorism were the key elements driving soldiers towards intervention. In retrospect, the military's willingness to learn f…
Lessons of Military Regimes and Democracy
This article aims to highlight the point that the nature of an outgoing authoritarian regime does matter for a new democracy. It discusses the Turkish case. The military interludes in Turkey have hardly been perceived as highly repressive by a significant proportion of civilians, nor have those periods been regarded as failures in political, economic, or military terms. This very experience with the military regimes was one of the reasons why civ…
Turkey's Troubled Democracy
The advent of democracy in Turkey has been far from tranquil. Since the transition to multiparty politics in 1946, democracy has been interrupted by three military interventions (in 1960, 1971, and 1980)- unless we count as the fourth intervention the more recent incident, euphemistically labeled “the 28 February Process,” in which the military played a crucial role in forcing the resignation of the governing coalition led by the Islamist-oriente…
The press and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey
(1996). The press and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 109-123.
Turkey's Troubled Democracy
The advent of democracy in Turkey has been far from tranquil. Since the transition to multiparty politics in 1946, democracy has been interrupted by three military interventions (in 1960, 1971, and 1980)- unless we count as the fourth intervention the more recent incident, euphemistically labeled “the 28 February Process,” in which the military played a crucial role in forcing the resignation of the governing coalition led by the Islamist-oriente…
The Turkish Military's Decision to Intervene
This article analyzes the Turkish military's decision to take over the government on 12 September 1980. It argues that just because the military believed itself to be a true guardian state, it easily considered intervention a legitimate solution. The perceived threats to the integrity of the Republican state posed by rampant terrorism were the key elements driving soldiers towards intervention. In retrospect, the military's willingness to learn f…
Soldiers and civilians
The military in Turkey continues to wield powers that might be regarded as anomalous for a liberal democracy.' This article aims to shed light on the problematic nature of Turkish civil-military relations. It starts from the assumption that civil-military relations are power relations and for that reason they cannot be properly grasped if one side of the equation is sidestepped. Civil-military relations are power relations because they refer to a…
Lessons of Military Regimes and Democracy
This article aims to highlight the point that the nature of an outgoing authoritarian regime does matter for a new democracy. It discusses the Turkish case. The military interludes in Turkey have hardly been perceived as highly repressive by a significant proportion of civilians, nor have those periods been regarded as failures in political, economic, or military terms. This very experience with the military regimes was one of the reasons why civ…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Turkish (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (3 works)