Turkey’s political transformation under AKP rule is often seen, for good reasons, as a prime example of gradual autocratisation. But the Turkish case also features sharp turning points, marked by extensive use of emergency powers, which provided a stepping stone for rapid autocratic change. In particular, both the episode of extralegal curfews in 2015 and the state of emergency that was declared a year later paved the way for a new and much more intense phase of autocratisation. This chapter explores Turkey’s political transformation through the conceptual lens of emergency rule. Such an approach points in two directions at once. On the one hand, it highlights something crucial about the specific modality of autocratic change over the past decade and, by extension, about the structure of the regime this modality tends to entrench. On the other hand, given the long pedigree of emergency powers in the political and legal history of the republic, it also allows us to elaborate on certain deep-rooted continuities, and work through the question of what is new in our present condition.