Turkey Government - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Official name: Republic of Turkey

Type: republican parliamentary democracy

Capital: Ankara

Political subdivisions: 67 provinces

Legal system: derived from various continental legal systems; constitution adopted in November 1982; legal education at Universities of Ankara and Istanbul; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations

National holiday: Republic Day, 29 October

Branches: executive—President empowered to call new elections, promulgate laws (elected for a seven-year term); unicameral legislature (400-member Grand National Assembly); independent judiciary

Government leaders: Gen. Kenan EVREN, President (since 1982); Turgut 0ZAL, Prime Minister (since 1983)

Suffrage: universal over age 21

Elections: according to the 1982 Constitution, elections to the Grand National Assembly to be held every five years, most recent election 6 November 1983

Political parties and leaders: military leaders banned all traditional parties from taking part in the parliamentary election of November 1983 and banned many prominent party leaders from taking part in politics for five to 10 years; three new parties allowed to take part in the election—Motherland Party (ANAP), Turgut Oral. Populist Party (PP), Necdet Calp; Nationalist Democracy Party (NDP), ('Ik Soylemezoglu, additional parties permitted to take part in local elections in March 1984—Social Democratcy Party (SODEP), Erdal ϊηοη; Correct Way Party

(CWP), Husamettin Cinderuk; SODEP and PP merged in 1985 to form the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) under Aydin Gfkan; Democratic Left Party (DLP) founded in 1985 under Rahsan Ecevit;

Voting strength: (1983 election) Grand Na tional Assembly—Motherland Party, 211 seats; Populist Party, 117 seats; Nationalist Democracy Party, 71 seats, as of end of 1985, Grand National Assembly—Motherland Party, 207 seats, Social Democratic Populist Party, 82 seats; National Democracy Party, 53 seats; Democratic Left Party, 4 seats; independents, 46 seats; vacant, 8 seats

Communists: strength and support negligible

Member of: ASSIMER, Council of Europe, EC (associate member), ECOSOC, FAO, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IDB—Islamic Development Bank, 1EA, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOOC, 1PU, ITC, ITU, NATO, OECD, OIC, Economic Cooperation Organization, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WSG, WTO

NOTE: The information regarding Turkey on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Turkey 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Turkey 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.