Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

Category: Ozan Varol

  • Turkey’s New Majoritarian Difficulty

    On September 12, 1980, the Turkish Armed Forces took control of the Turkish government in a bloody coup d’état. Exactly thirty years from that date, on September 12, 2010, Turkish voters approved by 58% of the vote a package of twenty-six amendments to the 1982 Constitution, which was ratified following the coup.