nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20191024-193231-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 191024s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20191024-193231-0 doi eng 342 23 Tecimer, Cem Author aut Abusive Constitutional Lip Service Can President Erdogan Reinstate the Death Penalty? No, But That’s Not the Point Tecimer, Cem Verfassungsblog 2019-10-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Amid Turkey’s heated agenda of constitutional politics during the past few years one issue seems to have received little to no attention: President Erdogan’s repeated call for reinstating the death penalty. Can Erdogan reinstate the death penalty? No, simply because he doesn’t have enough political support. But that isn’t the point. The point is how Erdogan uses the (unfulfillable) constitutional promise to reinstate the death penalty to consolidate his base. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Law Populism Todesstrafe Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/abusive-constitutional-lip-service/ raw object