Abstract

Due to the assigned right according to the constitutional law by Kemal Ataturk for the protection of the Republic of Turkey and Kemalism values, the Turkey army in the years of 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997 have attempted a coup. But with the empowerment of justice and development party in 2003 and comprehensive development of the country, Turkey was on an ongoing passing to democracy. In addition, the party of justice and development has closed the ways leading to the coup through legal strategies and modification of the enacted constitutional law during military coups. Though, the army attempted a military coup against the party of justice and development for the fifth time in 26th July 2016. Therefore, this question raises that in spite of the comprehensive development of Turkey after justice and development party coming to power and paving the way for a more liberal and democratic atmosphere and also limiting the role of the army in politics, what factors have caused and set the stage for this military organization to attempt a coup? In response to this question, this hypothesis took a form that the reasons for such a coup could be depriving the army of value capabilities related to its power and depriving the movement of Fethullah Gulen of doing activities inside Turkey and ignorance of Kemalism values by the party of justice and development. The present study is based on the analytic-descriptive method and also written and virtual sources were utilized for collecting the data.