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ID189929
Title ProperCitizenship, Civil Rights, Discourse, Identity, Rhetoric, Veterans
LanguageENG
AuthorYılmaz, Ayfer Genç
Summary / Abstract (Note)The civil-military relations literature on Turkey focuses predominantly on the guardianship role of the Turkish military, its interventions, and the role of the National Security Council as the main institutional mechanism of military tutelage. Yet, the existing studies lack a much-needed focus on the law enforcement or policing missions of the Turkish military. To fill this gap, this study discusses the EMASYA Protocol (Emniyet Asayiş Yardımlaşma or Security and Public Order Assistance), a secret protocol signed in 1997. Emerging in the context of political instability and military tutelage of the 1990s, the Protocol enabled the military to conduct internal security operations without permission from the civilian authorities. This paper argues that the EMASYA Protocol provided a sphere of “reformulated new professionalism” for the Turkish military, enabled it to specialize in the war against rising internal threats such as reactionary Islam and Kurdish separatism, and created anomalies in civil-military relations in Turkey.
`In' analytical NoteArmed Forces and Society Vol. 49, No.2; Apr 2023: p.470-488
Journal SourceArmed Forces and Society Vol: 49 No 2
Key WordsCivil-military relations ;  Turkey ;  Law Enforcement ;  Policing ;  EMASYA


 
 
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