Shifting Financial Privileges from Dynasty to Parliament In the Emergence of Modern Turkiye

Barış Bahçeci

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Shifting Financial Privileges from Dynasty to Parliament In the Emergence of Modern Turkiye

Authors:

Barış Bahçeci

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Main Topics:

Law in Context (Other)

Journal:

Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul Issue 73, pp.157-182

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001304129

pISSN:

0578-9745

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 This study deals with the emergence of modern Turkey in the axis of the change in financial privileges. In this respect, the acts of the parliaments are analysed with a descriptive approach. While the parliament conducted the liquidation process of the Ottoman dynasty, it also created some new privileges for its members. This study examines this simultaneous process. The liquidation process started in 1908 with the establishment of a constitutional monarchy initiated by the Committee of Union and Progress İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti. Only after 1920, a national assembly convened under a new leadership in Ankara continued the process and seized the assets of the dynasty, ended tax privileges, and cut their allowances in 1924. However, during the same period, parliament extended the financial status of its members with laws enacted even unconstitutionally. Despite that allowances of MPs were increased, and rules creating pension rights turned into a legislative behaviour that set an example for the following decades too. Moreover, parliament also established financial privileges by tolerating the economic activities of its members. Thus, financial privileges based on blood ties were replaced by another type of privileged status in parallel with the transfer of sovereignty.

 This study deals with the emergence of modern Turkey in the axis of the change in financial privileges. In this respect, the acts of the parliaments are analysed with a descriptive approach. While the parliament conducted the liquidation process of the Ottoman dynasty, it also created some new privileges for its members. This study examines this simultaneous process. The liquidation process started in 1908 with the establishment of a constitutional monarchy initiated by the Committee of Union and Progress İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti. Only after 1920, a national assembly convened under a new leadership in Ankara continued the process and seized the assets of the dynasty, ended tax privileges, and cut their allowances in 1924. However, during the same period, parliament extended the financial status of its members with laws enacted even unconstitutionally. Despite that allowances of MPs were increased, and rules creating pension rights turned into a legislative behaviour that set an example for the following decades too. Moreover, parliament also established financial privileges by tolerating the economic activities of its members. Thus, financial privileges based on blood ties were replaced by another type of privileged status in parallel with the transfer of sovereignty.

 This study deals with the emergence of modern Turkey in the axis of the change in financial privileges. In this respect, the acts of the parliaments are analysed with a descriptive approach. While the parliament conducted the liquidation process of the Ottoman dynasty, it also created some new privileges for its members. This study examines this simultaneous process. The liquidation process started in 1908 with the establishment of a constitutional monarchy initiated by the Committee of Union and Progress İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti. Only after 1920, a national assembly convened under a new leadership in Ankara continued the process and seized the assets of the dynasty, ended tax privileges, and cut their allowances in 1924. However, during the same period, parliament extended the financial status of its members with laws enacted even unconstitutionally. Despite that allowances of MPs were increased, and rules creating pension rights turned into a legislative behaviour that set an example for the following decades too. Moreover, parliament also established financial privileges by tolerating the economic activities of its members. Thus, financial privileges based on blood ties were replaced by another type of privileged status in parallel with the transfer of sovereignty.

 This study deals with the emergence of modern Turkey in the axis of the change in financial privileges. In this respect, the acts of the parliaments are analysed with a descriptive approach. While the parliament conducted the liquidation process of the Ottoman dynasty, it also created some new privileges for its members. This study examines this simultaneous process. The liquidation process started in 1908 with the establishment of a constitutional monarchy initiated by the Committee of Union and Progress İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti. Only after 1920, a national assembly convened under a new leadership in Ankara continued the process and seized the assets of the dynasty, ended tax privileges, and cut their allowances in 1924. However, during the same period, parliament extended the financial status of its members with laws enacted even unconstitutionally. Despite that allowances of MPs were increased, and rules creating pension rights turned into a legislative behaviour that set an example for the following decades too. Moreover, parliament also established financial privileges by tolerating the economic activities of its members. Thus, financial privileges based on blood ties were replaced by another type of privileged status in parallel with the transfer of sovereignty.

Article Details

Shifting Financial Privileges from Dynasty to Parliament In the Emergence of Modern Turkiye

Authors:

Barış Bahçeci

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Main Topics:

Law in Context (Other)

Journal:

Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul Issue 73, pp.157-182

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001304129

pISSN:

0578-9745

Dynastic privileges

Parliamentary privileges

Equality

Populism

The emergence of modern Turkiye

Issues

Article Details

Shifting Financial Privileges from Dynasty to Parliament In the Emergence of Modern Turkiye

Authors: Barış Bahçeci

Publisher: Istanbul University

Main Topics: Law in Context (Other)

Journal: Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul Issue 73, pp.157-182

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 11/2023

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001304129

pISSN: 0578-9745

Dynastic privileges

Parliamentary privileges

Equality

Populism

The emergence of modern Turkiye

Issues

Authors:

Barış Bahçeci

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Main Topics:

Law in Context (Other)

Journal:

Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul Issue 73, pp.157-182

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001304129

pISSN:

0578-9745