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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20191024-193231-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/abusive-constitutional-lip-service/ Abusive Constitutional Lip Service - Can President Erdogan Reinstate the Death Penalty? No, But That’s Not the Point Tecimer, Cem eng 2019-10-24 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Constitutional Law Populism Todesstrafe Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Amid Turkey’s heated agenda of constitutional politics during the past few years one issue seems to have received little to no attention: President Erdogan’s repeated call for reinstating the death penalty. Can Erdogan reinstate the death penalty? No, simply because he doesn’t have enough political support. But that isn’t the point. The point is how Erdogan uses the (unfulfillable) constitutional promise to reinstate the death penalty to consolidate his base.