The Guardian of the Regime: the Turkish Constitutional Court in Comparative Perspective

Constitutional Politics in the Middle East: With special reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 99-121

  Shambayati, Hootan ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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