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This article deals with the contribution of Polish lawyers to research on the political system and law of the post-1876 Ottoman Empire and of Turkey during the Presidency of Ataturk. Although the subject was not often analysed in Polish legal sciences, remarks made by Polish lawyers are worthy of reminding for two reasons. Firstly, their works are almost completely unknown in the circle of Polish Orientalists; secondly, they more than once contain detailed analyses of Ottoman/Turkish legal problems. Count Leon Ostroróg has been brought into prominence in the article as the lawyer who was particularly interested in Ottoman/Turkish questions and who had a share in modernization of Ottoman law. Other Polish lawyers only incidentally took up examining legal aspects of the Turkish modernization. Among them were the inter-war period scholars like Antoni Peretiatkowicz, Antoni Wereszczynski, Maciej Starzewski and Waclaw Komarnicki, and the authors writing in the second part of the last century like Leszek Winowski and Eugeniusz Zwierzchowski. The works of the authors mentioned in the article may inspire and motivate young scholars to study Turkish modernization from the legal point of view.
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In the article the First Turkish Grand National Assembly, operating in Ankara between 1920 and 1923, is discussed. The legal status of this organ in the light of its first legal acts of 1920 and the Constitutional Act of 20 January 1921, as well as organization of the executive power and main lines of political divisions within the parliament are examined.
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The essential novelty of the Kemalist republic and its making a clean break with the Ottoman past was the theme of many books published in the West from the 1920s onwards. This view was obviously incorrect because political reform does not eradicate elements of historical legacy such as legal doctrines, social ideals and ideologies, social structure etc. A continuity between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is underlined in modern literature about Turkey's modernization. The stress is laid on the state autonomy as one of the most distinguishing aspects of this continuity. It is discussed in this article on three levels: bureaucratic continuity which dealt in taking over the Ottoman cadre by the Turkish Republic, intensification of state activity (horizontal as well as vertical), petrification of some elements of the traditional political concept of state (the state tradition) and existence of social structure conducive to authoritarian decision-making by state power.
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