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Sunday, February 01, 2015

Presidential system or ‘supreme guidance’ - NURAY MERT

Presidential system or ‘supreme guidance’

The president determined the basic topic of the coming general election as “constitutional change and the presidential system,” and he has personally begun to “campaign for the presidential system.” In fact, “the presidential system,” in the mind of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his supporters rather sounds like a system of “supreme guidance.” After all, the project of a so-called “New Turkey” is about not only building a new political system, but also a new society bound by loyalties which are defined along the lines of a new ruling ideology.

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