The history of Turkey is an example in which the military exercised autonomous political power in the political sphere, occupying a central place in the institutional architecture of the state and holding various forms of legal, institutional, ideological, and economic power. Bringing the military under the control of civilian political authority has always been one of the main issues on the political agenda. The AKP government has brought the military under the control of civilian power since 2002 through a combination of legal reform and police-judiciary repression mechanisms. However, this brought neither democratic civilian control nor an end to militarist policies. This study examines the positioning of the military in politics and the state in the 100-year history of the republic within the framework of its sociopolitical dynamics, and points to the ongoing manifestations of militarism through new forms of politicisation in the military, the war industry, the militarisation of the Kurdish question and foreign policy, and ideological-cultural militarism as the republic enters its second century.