nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221005-230721-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221005s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|ger|| 10.17176/20221005-230721-0 doi ger 342 23 Kars Kaynar, Ayşegül Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-5011-2436 Penning a New Narrative of Turkey as a Military Nation - How the July 15 Coup Attempt Trials Helped to Reconciliate the Nation and the Army Kars Kaynar, Ayşegül Verfassungsblog 2022-10-05 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Amid heated discussions over the upcoming elections, one of the largest set of prosecutions in the history of the Turkish Republic has been completed this year. In the aftermath of the military coup of July 15, 2016, which claimed the lives of 250 people in a single night and triggered a state of emergency rule that endured two years, over 100.000 investigations had been carried out and 289 trials were opened against the perpetrators. As of May 2022, all 289 cases are concluded in the courts of first instance. The courts proved to be a constitute element of this new constellation of powers in the post-2016 era, re-adjusting the narrative of Turkey as a military nation. CC BY-SA 4.0 Fetullah Gülen military coup Procedural Justice Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/penning-a-new-narrative-of-turkey-as-a-military-nation/ raw object