It is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative democracy and a constitutional republic within a pluriform multi-party system.

The Constitution states that the legislative power is vested in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (art.

The president can appeal to the Constitutional Court for the annulment of all or certain provisions of laws on the grounds that they are unconstitutional in form or in content (art.

[1] Legislative power is vested in a single-chamber parliament (the Grand National Assembly of Turkey) with 600 members.

Members of the Grand National Assembly can not hold office in state departments and other public corporate bodies and their subsidiaries.

[2] The duties and powers of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey are to enact, amend, and repeal laws; to debate and adopt the budget bills and final accounts bills; to decide to declare war; to approve the ratification of international treaties, to decide with the majority of three-fifths of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to proclaim amnesty and pardon; and to exercise the powers and carry out the duties envisaged in the other articles of the Constitution.

However, laws introduced by the Parliament prevail over the presidential decrees with respect to the same subject in the hierarchy of norms.

[2] The daily enforcement and administration of federal laws is in the hands of the various executive ministries, to deal with specific areas of national and international affairs.

However, international treaty provisions involving basic rights and freedoms prevail against domestic codes and statutes.

A brief summary of the electoral systems used for each type of election is as follows: The Constitution enumerates local governments as municipalities, special provincial administrations and villages.

[5] A governor is representing the government in the province and is also the figurehead and executive organ of the special provincial administration.

The TP has five main sections: taxation, taxpayer duties, valuation, penalty provisions, tax cases.

The expenditure of the State and of public corporations other than state-owned enterprises (SOE's) are determined by annual central government budgets.