ABSTRACT
In this chapter I discuss the struggle over the Turkish citizen subject and how law interacts with parliamentary politics in the subject production process. The notion of law adopted here is diffuse and strained: law is inseparably intertwined with politics, morals and power struggles; the law is what(ever) the law does. I ask what else, besides providing solutions to legally formulated problems, does the law do? For this purpose, I explore the actual workings of law by following its lead to three sites of struggle: the courts (party dissolution cases), the cabinets (the Kurdish peace process) and the streets (the Gezi protests), in order to determine how the law shapes our lived world and specifically political subjectivity in Turkey.
