{"id":13283,"date":"2025-06-10T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/previous-courses\/%previous-courses-categories%\/constitutionalism-in-turkey\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:27:58","slug":"constitutionalism-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/de\/previous-courses\/winter-2020-21\/constitutionalism-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutionalism in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-93552f31\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">Constitutionalism in Turkey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#baris-isik-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BARI\u015e I\u015eIK<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#melike-belkis-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MEL\u0130KE BELKIS AYDIN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This course focuses on the Ottoman-Turkish Constitutional Developments; the 1982 Constitution of Turkey, Characteristics of the Republic, Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, Legislative Power, Elections, Members of Parliament, Parliamentary Immunities, Executive Power, Judiciary, Constitutional Court and Constitutional Review. It mainly gives an opportunity to develop a general sense and knowledge on the Ottoman-Turkish Constitutions. It provides students a chance to foster an analytical understanding and evaluation of constitutional history of Turkey.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the course, students will be developing an ability to analyze the current governing system of Turkey from a perspective of comparative constitutional law. They will not only acquire general knowledge on Turkish constitutional law and politics as well as political and constitutional history of the Turkish state \u2013both late Ottoman era and the Republic; but also understand the significant discussions on human rights, democracy, and rule of law, from a perspective of constitutional law theory. Weekly lectures will help students to improve their skills to comment and discuss about past and contemporary issues of constitutional government in Turkey.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a point of departure, course will start by explaining the main political and constitutional developments of the 19th century and early 20th century Ottoman Empire. It will then continue with exploring the nation and constitution building process of the young Turkish republic. Important political\/constitutional developments of the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s that lead to the military coup d\u2019etat of 1980 is also a part of this course. Thereafter, the course will explore the constitutional order as provided by the 1982 Constitution. Finally, this course will tell the students about the contemporary problems of constitutional government in Turkey      <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/turkiyede-anayasal-devlet-syllabus-W20.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"Einbettung von turkiyede-anayasal-devlet-syllabus-W20.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b3aaf83c-efc9-4de3-abb4-5b3b58737461\" href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/turkiyede-anayasal-devlet-syllabus-W20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">turkiyede-anayasal-devlet-syllabus-W20<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">03.11.20 &#8211; 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