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TJP Turkish Journal of Politics Vol. 2 No. 1 Summer 2011 Feasibility of Presidential System in Turkey Recep Türk Fatih University, recepturk70@ Abstract This paper discusses strengths and weaknesses of the various governance models and then evaluates the recent presidential system discussions in Turkey. First, it describes the problematic applications of Turkish parliamentarism and concludes that Turkey needs a serious change in its constitutional system design. Then, this paper points out why pure presidentialsm cannot be fea- sible for Turkish political culture and finally, offers its own suggestions regarding best governance model for Turkey. Keywords Parliamentarism, Presidentialism, Semi-Presidentialism, Problems of Turkish Parliamentary System, Presidentialism in Turkey. 33 TJP Turkish Journal of Politics Vol. 2 No. 1 Summer 2011 Introduction As a political science professor and a pol- itician, Zafer Uskul rightly points out, even Political systems or regimes have been though there are many presidential modals one of the hot topics among philosophers, out there, because of the obscurity we can scientists, politicians, and bureaucrats since only make an educated guess that the Prime the ancient Greek era. Thought of a better Minister meant the US presidential system, political regime has occupied many precious so we can comment on that (Uskul, 2005). minds so far and it seems to be continued that way. Turkish politicians were not ex- This paper is structured in three parts. In cluded from that quest so that discuss