> That said, at least supreme court judges in the US (and other countries) don't have the power to topple the government, execute ministers, outlaw political pa

> That said, at least supreme court judges in the US (and other countries) don't have the power to topple the government, execute ministers, outlaw political parties etc. That's one way the military providing "a check on democracy" is even worse. Right, so I doubt anyone in this thread would claim the Turkish coup system is better than the US system, except perhaps by making a strained appeal to a very different culture necessitating more drastic checks on democracy (or something). So you don't really need to argue this. And the rest of your argument for radical democracy doesn't have much to do with Turkey per se, the topic of this thread.