Author(s): Mustafa SALEP
Together with limitation of individual freedoms in certain aspects, State of Siege can be considered as normal temporarily in order to prevent the activities threatening the state’s perpetuity. In the introduction part of the article, historical adventure of martial law and state of sieges were summarized from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey and state of siege processes from 1940 to 1971 were shortly evaluated. After the March 12 Memorandum, the incidents leading to state of siege declaration were analyzed and detentions and trials in the scope of martial law was evaluated. The institutions identified that involved in various social riots were shut down and publications that is perceived as a threat to the current regime were confiscated. Also the Martial Law which is determining the limits of state of siege process was evaluated in this article. Comparing to Martial Law, the new State of Siege Law has given wider authorities to the State of Siege Commanderships. To sum up, in this article it was evaluated one of the important turning points in History of Turkey, Post March 12 Memorandum period’s some political and social subjects were evaluated.
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