This article argues that Turkey’s contemporary political regime is competitive authoritarianism. Tracing the evolution of Turkey’s political system from tutelary democracy to its current state, it describes the developments that resulted in the dissolution of the army’s prerogatives in politics and the rise of a new form of authoritarianism in the country. Associating this substantive change with the global emergence of competitive authoritarianism, I argue that the competitive authoritarian regime of Turkey has been institutionalized by the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) and that, since the 2017 referendum, the regime has displayed a tendency toward full authoritarianism that may render elections non-competitive by narrowing the legal channels through which the opposition can contest for political power.

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走向土耳其的新政治体制：从竞争到完全的威权主义

本文认为，土耳其的当代政治体制是竞争性威权主义。追溯土耳其政治制度从监护民主到目前状态的演变，它描述了导致军队在政治中的特权瓦解和该国新形式的威权主义兴起的发展。将这种实质性变化与竞争性威权主义的全球出现联系起来，我认为土耳其的竞争性威权政权已被正义与发展党制度化（Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) 并且自 2017 年公投以来，该政权表现出完全威权主义的趋势，这可能会通过缩小反对派争夺政治权力的法律渠道而使选举变得非竞争性。