Özet:

Kemalism consists of six principles according to the constitution; however westernization should be added to these principles. The principles have been applied by five institutions: the judiciary, the military, the education system, the business world and the political order. Kemalism, for which it is natural to have certain economic consequences due to its being the official ideology of the Turkish Republic, prefers self-enclosed, anti-free market and statist economic policies. The fact that the neo-liberal economic policies that have been applied after 1980 are in contradiction with Kemalism is one of the most important reasons for the economic crises that the country has gone through. The economic success of the AK Party rests on the relative decrease in power of the Kemalist ideology and institutions. In addition, the February 28 is a good example where the Kemalist institutions acted together in order to defend the system. Economic reasons are important to understand the February 28. In this article, we investigate Kemalist economic policies and their contradictions with neoliberal economic policies

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