ABSTRACT
Turkey has been experiencing a comprehensive regime transformation, which has had repercussions in the organization of state power and state–society relations since the failed coup in 2016. Institutionalization of the police state in a new form and securitization of politics have also accompanied the institutionalization of the new presidential regime. To reveal the true political nature of the gradual organization of this transition period and entrenchment of the police state, this paper focus on three interrelated aspects of this process: the judicialization of politics, the gradual institutionalization of the police emergency in the country, and the marginalization of citizenship.
