According to Articles 119-122 of the 1982 Constitution the four types of extraordinary rule are martial law (sıkıyönetim), state of emergency (olağanüstü hâl, OHAL), mobilization (seferberlik) and situation of war (savaş hâli).
On 27 December 2001 constitutional law professor Dr. Zafer Üskül presented some details in the daily Radikal.
[4] At the end of 2001 law professor Dr. Zafer Üskül stated that 40 of its 78 years the Republic of Turkey had, in some or other part of it, been under extraordinary rule.
[5] On 1 July 1982 five states (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France and the Netherlands) filed an application against Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights.
In December 1985 a friendly settlement was reached that demanded that Turkey should lift martial law within 18 months.