Abstract:

For the last thirty years, Turkey has been looking for a new government system. In December 2016, this search was transformed into a concrete context in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and it was accepted as a constitutional law amendment proposal for public approval. On April 16, 2017, voters will give their decisions on this constitutional amendment proposal. Therefore, before the election, a lot of researches(surveys), programs and scientific studies are put into practiced about whether the people have information about the new government system that desired to be brought in by existing government. In addition, political parties are conducting various studies to influence voters' preference too. The aim of this study is to find out answers to questions such as the grade of voter informations about the new government system that desired to be brought in and how the voters perceive towards to the new system. The work is based on theory and practice. In this context, firstly information has been given about the presidential, semi-presidential and parliamentary government systems. Then, what the presidential government system is going to bring, what to change is listed. Later, field research was carried out on four provinces. The survey was conducted by face to face and random methods with 1,750 people in Diyarbakir, Mardin, Batman and Bitlis provinces. It has seen that outcome voters are not sufficiently informed about the new goverment system and their approaches towards the system were largely determined by the attitudes of the political parties that they supported and voted for. They also think that the new government system will not figure out which are existing problems. One part considers the system as a regime change.

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