Why Party Bans Often Don’t Work - How an Attempt to Ban Turkey’s AKP Backfired
In July 2008, in an intensely debated and enormously consequential case, Turkey’s Constitutional Court weighed whether to close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and ban its 71 leading members, including then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Six of the eleven justices voted in favor...
Main Authors: | Andrew O'Donohue, Cem Tecimer |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH
2024-04-01
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Series: | Verfassungsblog |
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Online Access: | https://verfassungsblog.de/why-party-bans-often-dont-work/ |
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