Why Party Bans Often Don’t Work - How an Attempt to Ban Turkey’s AKP Backfired O'Donohue, Andrew Author aut Tecimer, Cem Author aut Text xx# 2024 Verfassungsblog 2024-04-06 eng
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 In July 2008, in an intensely debated and enormously consequential case, Turkey’s Constitutional Court weighed whether to close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and ban its 71 leading members, including then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Six of the eleven justices voted in favor – falling just one vote short of the super-majority required to dissolve the AKP and bar its leaders from politics for five years. More than 15 years after the AKP closure case, Turkey has experienced significant democratic backsliding, and Erdoğan has secured a third term as president, extending his tenure in office into 2028. Although the tools of “militant democracy” may be useful, the Turkish case suggests that targeted legal interventions, rather than sweeping party bans, may be more effective at safeguarding democracy. CC BY-SA 4.0 O'Donohue, Andrew AKP Erdogan Erdoğan Recep Tayyip | 1954- | Politiker Parteivorsitzender Präsident Militant Democracy Parteiverbot Parteiverbot Party Ban Erdoğan Recep Tayyip | 1954- | Politiker Parteivorsitzender Präsident Parteiverbot 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/why-party-bans-often-dont-work/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/d216e52d4dc747f7 240406 10.59704/d216e52d4dc747f7 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)