http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170214-095137 https://verfassungsblog.de/presidentialism-a-la-turka-or-what-the-missing-logic-behind-the-constitutional-amendments/ Presidentialism à la Turka or what? The (missing) logic behind the constitutional amendments von Steinsdorff, Silvia eng 2017-02-13 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Authoritarianism Constitutional Reform Presidential Democracy Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Erdoğan’s efforts to inscribe his understanding of presidential domination into the Turkish constitution should not be mistaken for a systematic turn towards a presidential model of government. The inbuilt inconsistencies of the reform may well develop some serious unintended side effects causing political deadlock and institutional breakdown in the long run.