Recent Constitutional Amendments and the EU Harmonization Laws in Turkey: More Freedom, More Democracy and a More Civilian Order-An Overview

In line with the priorities of the 2001 National Programme for the Adoption of the Acquis (NPAA), the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT) adopted the most comprehensive constitutional amendment package on October 3, 2001 and, accordingly, a series of harmonization laws.[1] Turkey’s constitutional amendment process and the efforts to adopt the European Acquis by the newly elected Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, Justice and Development Party (AKP) Government has continued with astonishing speed since 2003. From the very beginning, the AKP Government declared its...