The First Three Years of Presidential System of Government in the Light of Basic Principles, Practices and Revision Requests

Abstract

Turkey adopted a new management model which is also called the Presidential System of Government by referendum held on April 16, 2017. This model has come into force after the elections held on June 24, 2018, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became the first president of the Presidential Government System. Eventually, Turkey has moved away from the parliamentary system which is shaped in the developmental stages of Turkish-Ottoman modernization and has approximately 150-years history and adopted a new management model of presidential system which can be considered as a Turkey-specific version. In the scope of this study, the basic principles and implementation practices of the Presidential System of Government, which is about to complete its third year, and the revision requests emerged in the process are discussed. The aim of this study is to reveal the uniqueness of Turkey's new management model, and to show what the equivalence of the system corresponds to in the constitutional law literature context.