Juridico-political and spatiotemporal conditions of exceptional security measures: the case of Türkiye between 1923 and 2019

Abstract

This dissertation examines the state’s interference with the constitutional rights and liberties regime in the name of security in light of the practices in Türkiye between 1923 and 2019. It aims to explain what juridical and political aspects such measures of the state may have, explore the spatial and temporal dimensions of these security measures, and relate these dimensions to the juridico-political conditions of the security measures contradicting the norms concerning rights and liberties, which are constructed legally by states. It seeks to conceptualise exceptional security measures by examining the state as a whole with all its relevant institutions instead of examining a specific source of powers, such as the executive, the legislature, or the police. It shows that the exercisers of state power and the power to make the decision that interferes with rights and liberties vary depending on the time and the juridico-political context. It seeks to understand how and when state authorities act in contradiction to the norms concerning rights and liberties, the source of state authorities’ power to interfere with the rights and liberties regime, and what spatiotemporal aspects these practices have.