%0 Journal Article %T REVOLUTION, CHAOS AND SEEKING STABLITY OF LIBYA: HISTORICAL AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS %A Bet¨¹l £¿eng¨¹l %A Cant¨¹rk Caner %J - %D 2018 %X The aim of this article is to clarify the headlines of the structural and functional transformation arisen from the coup d¡¯¨¦tats and, military interventions and political turmoils suffered by Libya during the history. As known, Libya is very crucial country which was located in Northern Africa as a transitionary region. Both its ethnic structure and its geopolitical positioning always shaped Libya and come it into hot agenda of the world. Libya which was under the subjection of the various powers for a long time gained its independence at the middle of the 20th century and confronted with the Gaddafi revolution before establishing the fundamental principles of the modern state. As a country under the Gaddafi regime more than 40 years attempted to create its own stability with the sui generis administration. Nevertheless, the Arab Spring demonstrated that Gaddafi regime deprived of having strong and coherent ties and away from providing the welfare which the Libya community desired. As a matter of fact, Libya was one of the first countries negatively influenced by the Arab Spring emerged at the end of 2010 entered into a civilian war and permanent instability as a result of collapsing the existing Gaddafi regime. Nowadays Libya seeks to provide a new kind of stability with a new comprehension of state and politics while keeping the suffered political turmoil still alive %K Libya %K Muammer Kaddafi %K Devrim %U http://dergipark.org.tr/ijar/issue/38351/409092