http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170131-132623 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/new-constitutional-amendment-proposal-in-turkey-a-threat-to-pluralistic-democracy/ New Constitutional Amendment Proposal in Turkey: A Threat to Pluralistic Democracy! Şirin, Tolga eng 2017-01-31 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Checks and Balances Constitutional Reform Presidential Powers Recep Tayyip Erdoğan State of Emergency Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Turkey will hold a referendum on a fundamental constitutional reform, probably in April. The designed political regime is neither parliamentarism nor presidentialism. Although the government calls the new political regime as a “Turkish type of presidentialism” with a populist discourse; in reality, the new regime will bring a kind of “delegative democracy”, which is seen usually in the South American, sub-Saharan African and in central Asian countries.