ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on the period of state-sponsored social mobilization called ‘democracy watches’ to understand the reassertion of the military normal in Turkey following the failed 15 July 2016 coup attempt. Based on participant observation and semi-structured interviews, it uses democracy watches as a barometer to trace the day-to-day vicissitudes of the post-coup civil–military relations in Turkey. It highlights three registers, namely anger, fear, and doubt, to demonstrate how democracy watches functioned as affectively distilleries that proved conducive to the post-coup recuperation of civil–military relations in Turkey.
