dernity in Turkey

ability Turkey has been actively pursuing European levels of democracy, a production-oriented open-market economy, and culturally transparent institutionalization especially since the Justice and Development Party took over control of the Turkish parliament in 2002. In 2010, Turkey's electorate voted on a package of twenty-six amendments to the cur-rent Turkish constitution. The 2010 referendum on the constitutional reforms certainly became one of the turning points in the political history of modern Turkey. On the remarkable day of the thirtieth an-niversary of military intervention (12 September, 1980), people went to polls and approved the constitutional reforms by the margin of six-teen points. In this paper, we analyzed the distribution of votes on the constitutional amendment package, compared these results to those of previous elections in Turkey, and attempted to answer the question of what this geographic distribution of the votes in the referendum means, what factors influenced such an outcome and how the results can be analyzed. We also examined the geography of those in support for and in opposition to the proposed constitutional changes