Permanent state of emergency has been declared frequently in Türkiye from 1876, marking the inception of the constitutional system in the country, until today. In fact, governments of the Republic of Türkiye and the Ottoman Empire have widely invoked to martial laws and state of emergency practices for a long period of 127 years, commencing from the 1877 Martial Law enacted at the time of the Ottoman Empire. Following the adoption of the constitutional system in the Ottoman Empire, Martial laws were used as a legal apparatus both by the Istanbul government to oppress and silence the opposition and also, upon its seizure of the government, by the opposition Committee of Union and Progress (İttihad ve Terakki) to foster the constitutional order that they had established as well as for introducing new reforms. While such laws were properly exercised in line with its purpose to cope with extraordinary circumstances during the First World War and the Independence War of the country, as a legal tool considerably vulnerable to political misuses, they have later turned into a safe haven for governments failing to deal with socio-political problems adequately. It should be highlighted that, along with the de-facto emergency measures, mostly being based on the justification by the governments of the Republic of Türkiye that “we are going through extraordinary circumstances”, martial and emergency laws pose a serious obstacle to the development of the Turkish democracy, which is crawling compared to the European history. When viewed through the lens of the history, it is seen that reliance on martial laws are aimed at not only for security reasons, but also for social, political, and economic motives. In this regard, this Article critically examines the foregoing issues with a specific focus on the latest era of the Ottoman Empire and the early stages of the Republic of Türkiye