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The deep state ranks among the most critical issues in Turkish politics. This book traces its origins and offers an explanation of the emergence and trajectory of the deep state; the meaning and function of informal and authoritarian institutions in the formal security sector of a democratic regime; the involvement of the state in organized crime; armed conflict; corruption; and massive human rights violations. This book applies an innovative methodological approach to concept formation and offers a mid-range theory of deep state that sheds light on the reciprocal relationship between the state and political regimes and elaborates on the conditions for the consolidation of democracy. It traces the path-dependent emergence and trajectory of the deep state from the Ottoman Empire to the current Turkish Republic and its impact on state-society relations. It reads state formation, consolidation, and breakdown from the perspective of this most resilient phenomenon of Turkish politics. The analysis also situates recent developments regarding AKP governments, including the EU accession process, civil-military relations, coup trials, the Kurdish question, and the Gülen Movement in their context within the deep state. Moreover, this case-study offers an analytical framework for cross-regional comparative analysis of the deep states. Addressing the lacuna in academic scholarship on the deep state phenomenon in Turkey, this book is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in democratization, politics and Middle East Studies.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Methodology
• Case-study method and its potential
• Limitations of the case-study method
• Strengthening causal inferences
• Notes
• 2. Theoretical framework
• Path-dependency in the agency-structure debate
• Political regimes
• Deep state
• From the deep state to consolidated democracy
• Notes
• 3. Banditry and the Ottoman State
• Ottoman State
• Banditry in the service of state consolidation
• Banditry for multiple causes: Decline and dissolution of the Empire
• emergence of the deep state: Critical juncture (1908
• 13)
• Banditry and the breakdown of the Ottoman State
• Notes
• 4. reorganization and restoration of the deep state

• legacies of single-party rule
• Transition to democracy and deep state: Critical juncture (1945
• 47)
• Military autonomy (1950
• 60)
• Restoration through putsch: Fabricating the "modern bandits" (1960
• 80)
• Military autonomy (1960
• 80)
• Notes
• 5. rise, decline and restoration of the deep state
• rise of state-banditry relations
• Military autonomy (1980
• 90)
• transformation of the deep state into the state (1990
• 2000)
• Military autonomy (1990
• 2000)
• decline of the deep state: Critical juncture (1999
• 2002)
• Military autonomy and undemocratic civilian supremacy (2000
• 2014)
• Notes
• 6. Conclusion.

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Author/Creator:

Söyler, Mehtap , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The Turkish deep state: state consolidation, civil-military relations and democracy [by Söyler, M.]

Related Series:

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics; [volume] 73

Subjects:

Turkey — Politics and government — 20th century

Turkey — Politics and government — 21st century

Civil-military relations — Turkey

Democracy — Turkey

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DR576 .S696 2015

ISBNs:

9781317668800 (electronic bk.)
1317668804 (electronic bk.)
9781138782334 (hbk, alk. paper) [Invalid]
1138782335 (hbk, alk. paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

903488892

Other Control Numbers:

955771 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12295779