IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cjsbxx/v26y2024i6p851-870.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Stop, in the Name of Law!: The Restructuring of Police Force in the Early Republican Turkey

Author

Listed:
  • Güven Gürkan Öztan

Abstract

This study aims to analyse the strategic decisions made by the foundational cadre during the establishment of homeland security in the early years of the Turkish Republic and their consequential impact on the institutional capacities of the state’s coercive apparatus. To achieve this objective, this article primarily focuses on the evolutionary trajectory of homeland security institutions during the final stages of the Ottoman Empire and the founding period of the Turkish Republic. A central thesis posited herein contends that political considerations were the driving force behind the establishment of police organizations and the subsequent professionalization of policing, particularly since the 1930s. This study also elucidates the political directives issued to the police organization by the government, the successive phases of police training, and the legal framework governing the restructuring of the police institution.

Suggested Citation

  • Güven Gürkan Öztan, 2024. "Stop, in the Name of Law!: The Restructuring of Police Force in the Early Republican Turkey," Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(6), pages 851-870, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:6:p:851-870
    DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2311468
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2311468
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/19448953.2024.2311468?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:6:p:851-870. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cjsb .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.