Back to the future

Abstract

After over nine months of preparatory meetings, the Turkish opposition coalition consisting of six political parties – which pose the biggest challenge to the ruling AKP in the upcoming elections in June 2023 – have announced their constitutional amendment proposal. While it has been plausibly argued in this blog (here and here) that constitutional restoration in the case of Turkey can be conducted without necessarily amending the Constitution, the main cause unifying the opposition coalition at the moment is a comprehensive proposal for constitutional amendment that allegedly aims for transitioning towards a ‘strengthened’ parliamentary system. In this blogpost, I will evaluate several key provisions of the opposition’s proposal and explain its likely path towards adoption in the aftermath of the upcoming general elections.