Who does Scare of the People? Rhetoric of  Personalisation, Reduction and Dilemma  in the Grand National Assembly of  Turkey: 1987 Constitutional  Amendment Negotations

İnan Özdemir TAŞTAN

Makale detayları

Who does Scare of the People? Rhetoric of Personalisation, Reduction and Dilemma in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey: 1987 Constitutional Amendment Negotations

Yazarlar:

İnan Özdemir TAŞTAN

Yayıncı:

İmge Kitabevi Yayınları

Dergi:

Culture and Communication 2016 Vol.19(1) Issue 37, pp.128-154

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2016

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000514020

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2149-9098

pISSN:

1301-7241

Özet:

 

Parliaments are spaces of delibaretions that gathers nation through its representatives in   modern democracies. These deliberations provides us a general frame, by which we can   infer the way the important socio-political problems are  mis represented semantically and   symbollicaly. As a result of this feature, the analysis of the parliamentary negotiations has   increasingly become a new research area during the last two decades. This study analyses   the negotions at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on the law no. 3361 in 1987   which made the first amendments in the Constitution of 1982. The law decreased the   voting age from 21 to 20, increased the numbers of parliamentarians from 400 to 450,   enhanced the position of the assembly vis a vis the president in terms of procedure of   consitutional amendments and repealed the political bans those enacted by the National   Security Council after the 1980 coup d’etat. So, the law brought about a debate on the   constitution, referandum, democratic rights and freedoms and democratic functions of the   referandums in Turkey in a transition to democracy following a coup detat.   In this study, minutes of the proceedings of the grand assembly were analysed through   critical rhetorical analysis to make inferences about the political climate and democratic   horizon of that period. During the analysis, the basic arguments and the rhetorical   strategies of the sides of the debate in the grand assembly are defined. The analysis shows   that parties of the debate in the grand assembly constructed their arguments with the help   of three rhetorical strategies. First strategy is ‘personalisation’ which relates the topic with   the interests and intentions of the “individuals” by ignoring its political and philosophical   aspects. The second strategy is the “reduction” of the topic to a specific issue. Third one is   the strategy of ‘dilemma’ which obliges the opponent to ratify the articles of the law that   they oppose in return for repealing the political bans on their leaders. Three rhetorical   strategies determinant within the debates not only shows the constraints of the democratic   horizon of the deliberations in the Grand National Assembly but also the distance of the   policy making processes from pluralist and democratic participation in Turkey.

Makale detayları

Who does Scare of the People? Rhetoric of Personalisation, Reduction and Dilemma in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey: 1987 Constitutional Amendment Negotations

Yazarlar: İnan Özdemir TAŞTAN

Yayıncı: İmge Kitabevi Yayınları

Dergi: Culture and Communication 2016 Vol.19(1) Issue 37, pp.128-154

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2016

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000514020

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2149-9098

pISSN: 1301-7241

Sayı

Yazarlar:

İnan Özdemir TAŞTAN

Yayıncı:

İmge Kitabevi Yayınları

Dergi:

Culture and Communication 2016 Vol.19(1) Issue 37, pp.128-154

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2016

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000514020

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2149-9098

pISSN:

1301-7241