BİR İÇ GÜVENLİK AKTÖRÜ OLARAK ORDU: İNGİLTERE, FRANSA, MEKSİKA VE TÜRKİYE ÖRNEKLERİ

The division of labor between the police and the military is a significant factor in establishing healthy civil-military relations in a country. The military’s involvement in the provision of public security would create negative impacts on civil-military relations. Although these assumptions are the core arguments of civil-military relations literature, militaries have always been involved in domestic security affairs. Militaries in democratic or democratizing countries are deployed inside national borders to combat organized crime, encounter insurgencies, or fight against terrorism. This paper aims at analyzing military call-out legislation and mise en oeuvre of military deployment in domestic security through a comparative analysis. In this context, the paper analyzes the cases of England, France, Turkey, and Mexico to determine the reasons and the degree of the military's involvement in domestic security. As the comparative analysis demonstrates, terrorism –local or global- opens a window of opportunity for the use of the military inside state borders. Yet, the structure of the internal security apparatus and the pattern of civil-military relations, both have a considerable impact on the level of military involvement in domestic security.