Abstract
The current study tries to examine the military coups that have occurred in Turkey and Mauritania. These coups differ from the other coups that occurred in the surrounding countries in the phase of democratization as these coups served as a hindrance to the process of democratization in Turkey and Mauritania. The problem of the study revolves around the analysis of the coups that happened in Turkey and Mauritania in the phase of democratic transition. The research is designed to answer the following question: what are the reasons that prompted the military establishment to intervene in political life in the shadow of the process of democratization in Turkey and Mauritania? The study aims at understanding reasons that pushed the military establishment to intervene in the political life. To discuss this phenomenon and achieve the required results, the analytical descriptive approach is adopted for concluding key results that may contribute to understand reasons that pushed the military establishment to intervene in the political life in Turkey and Mauritania in the aftermath democratization occurred in the two countries. The study concluded that the military establishment in both countries engaged in the political action and became ready to militarily intervene in the case of harming its interests and acquisitions.
Highlights
Based on what has been mentioned above, this study tackles and analyzes the successful military coups launched in Turkey and Mauritania during the process of democratic transition, which resulted in the circulation of power in a non-peaceful manner during the democratic phase
Mauritania did not wait long to support the likelihood of the second assumption of a subsequent coup in 2008, which exposed a deep problem in the civil military relations, namely the extent to which the military leadership is able to submit to political leadership if it is involved in a political conflict of interests, making clear the extent of the professionalism of the army in the developing countries, including Africa
Its first objective was to protect secularism as an essential aspect in the ideology of the Turkish establishment. It was concluded by Samuel Huntington who said "in some Islamic countries, the choice was between anti-democracy secularism and anti-West democracy
Summary
Based on what has been mentioned above, this study tackles and analyzes the successful military coups launched in Turkey and Mauritania during the process of democratic transition, which resulted in the circulation of power in a non-peaceful manner during the democratic phase. In this context, this study is divided into two parts: the first part focuses on the reasons of coups in the two countries. The second part focuses on the effects of coups on democratization in both countries
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