ABSTRACT
At the time of the writing of this book Turkey is going through arguably the most substantial constitutional reform process in the history of the Republic. For the first time, democratic civilian institutions are drafting a new constitution for the country without any military interference (see McLaren and Cop 2011). The reform process is going on in parallel to the equally significant peace process between the Turkish government and the Kurdish PKK. In other words, the current constitutional reform process represents a unique ‘constitutional moment’ in the history of the Turkish Republic. At this stage the concrete outcomes of both the constitutional reform process as well as the peace process are yet to be seen. Additionally, although the peace process is expected to result in some improvements in the constitutional accommodation of Kurdish minority rights, it is not entirely clear to what extent and in what ways the two processes will feed into each other. Unfortunately, due to the uncertainties surrounding them, neither the constitutional reform process nor the peace process has received the treatment that they deserved in the context of this book. Nevertheless, this short epilogue will comment on the constitutional reform process and its relationship with the peace process as they have developed so far.
