Siyaset-dışılıktan Cuntacılığa: Türkiye’de Askerin Siyasetle İlişkisinde Farklı Düzeylere İlişkin Bazı Okumalar
From Out-of-Politics to Juntas: Some Remarks on Different Categories in Military’s Attitude towards Politics in Turkey

Summary/Abstract: Military in Turkey always emphasized that it stand out-of-politics while, on the other hand, they continuously intervened into politics if not overtly ousted it. Tracking down this dilemma amid discourse versus praxis, this study aims to analyse the ambivalent nature of Turkish military’s attitude towards politics. For this aim, a set of life narratives written by soldiers at various ranks from 1908 to 1980s is reviewed. As a conclusion, it is argued that Turkish military’s attitude towards politics shall be identified at four discrepant moments. The first can be called as the principle discourse moment which refers to be out-of-politics. The second moment, which may be called as “observing”, embraces an aptitude contradictory to former one. The third and fourth moments emerge as a consequence of so-called “observing” act. One of these is some illegal praxis like committees and juntas; and the other one is several techniques of anti-political actions in a legal framework. It is worth noting that there is not a temporality among them necessarily; which means that more than one of those moments may be effective at a given era.

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