PERSPECTIVES ON DEMOCRATISATION IN TURKEY

Born in 1940 in Beylerbeyi, Istanbul, Bülent Tanör completed his secondary education at the Galatasaray Lycee (1951-1959) and his higher education at the faculty of Law, the University of Istanbul (1959-1963). In 1964, he was appointed research assistant in the department of Constitutional Law at the same faculty. In 1969, he obtained a PhD in Law wıth his thesis "The Freedom of Political Expression and the Turkish Constitution of 1961". In 1978, he became associate professor with his thesis "Social Rights in Constitutional Law".

From 1983 to 1986, as a "fellow professor" at the Faculties of Law of Paris (Nanterre), Dijon and Geneva, he gave lectures at undergraduate and postgraduate level on "Democracy in the Third World". In 1992, he was promoted to full professorship at the University of Istanbul.

At present, Professor Tanör teaches in the Department of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, University of Istanbul. He also lectures on the "Turhish Revolution".