THE CONSTITUTION

Like all modern democracies also sets the Turkish Republic of value to a separation of state power institutions. No state organ is above the other.
The Republic of Turkey, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, is a parliamentary republic.
The right to self-determination is in the hands of the people, the exercise is to Parliament.
1946 saw the development of Turkey to a multi-party state. 1961, the first independent Constitutional Court. The state institutions are the legislative, executive and judiciary. Legislative power lies with the Parliament. For the executive are the country's president and a commission of government ministers. The judiciary is independent from the government.
The legislature
550 MPs, the Turkish Parliament. Representatives shall be elected every five years in free, secret election. Anyone at least 18 years old citizen of his basic training school has the right to choose. Each 30-year-old citizen of his basic training school has the right to be elected. The electoral processes are required by law. Members represent the people and summon it before their term of office with a constitutionally defined oath.
The executive
The executive form of government President and ministerial bodies. The president represents the Turkish state in the first place. With its inaugural seven-year term he renounced his party affiliation. Nobody can be elected president twice. The prime minister and his ministers form the Council of Ministers. The Prime Minister is at the behest of the President from among the members appointed. The ministers will be selected by the Prime Minister and State President.
The jurisdiction
Judicial authorities are in Turkey by independent courts and the Supreme Court claimed. According to the Basic Law, the jurisdiction in the interest of law on the independence and incorruptibility of judges and courts. The negotiations are, except in special cases, publicly.
The legal system
The Turkish legal system is used primarily by Constitution, laws and implementing rules (statutes, regulations and decrees) secured. The executive bodies have the task of the existing legal system be maintained.
At the time of the Republic was founded, in order to lose no time, no legal order established, but in large parts of European models. The Penal Code is just like the Constitution, in accordance with international principles. Nobody can, for example, in retrospect punished for something, which at the time of the act was not illegal - no judge can interpret things differently.
State government forms
The legislative and executive powers belong to the central state administration. Turkey provides administrative services not only centrally located in the capital, but also regionally, through representatives elected by the people.