What if someone you do not want is elected?

A former Turkish judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Rıza Türmen, wrote a piece titled "A 10-question guide to evaluate the constitution," for the news website t24.com.tr, where he refers to a distinction German jurist Carl Schmitt has made between constitutions as "resilient to dictatorships and non-resilient to dictatorships." 

We know that a normal politician does not set out saying "I will become a dictator." If you ask those politicians that we know are dictators in the world today, they will reject it. 

I don't think anybody in our country has such a demand, however using the powers granted to him or her may bear such results. The tool to prevent this is the framework drawn by the constitution. 

With the constitutional amendments, a "one man" will be at the head of the executive as the president. As the chair of his or her political party and the leader of the majority in parliament, he or she will rule the parliament. The president will alone select the members of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors. The ones he has selected will select other high court and normal court judges and prosecutors. Thus, this "one man" will be heading the judiciary too. 

When one person controls the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, we call that order an "autocracy." This word comes from "autokrates" from ancient Greek. "Autos" means self and "Krates" means powerful. Autocrat means a person who solely uses the power to rule.

If the constitutional changes are approved, we do not know from today who will be winning the 2019 elections. But we know one thing, and that is that with these powers we will be creating an autocrat. 

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