Abstract:

Ahi community is an organization engaged in commercial, economical, social, cultural and political issues in order to provide integrity of the society’s peace and welfare by basing on social aid and solidarity. Besides, Ahi community is a Turkish organization comprising of merchants and craftsmen who work for both secular life and afterlife and evaluate secular life just as a step for afterlife by favourably integrating the eigenvalues of Turkish society with the Islamic belief, and who constitute moral rules by inspiring from the rules and regulations of Turkish-Islamic guild. Ahi community propagated the codes of conduct in the period of Ottomans and Seljukians by undertaking the duties of the institutions performed in present day in Turkey such as the cooperative system, trade union, insurance, bank and vocational education board. Today in Turkey, it seems that Ahi community is in a place too diverse from the West and has become a successful and integrative organization in economical, social, political and religional terms since the term that the mentioned organization performed. Today’s work environment has turned to be a place where it seems that the work ethics is considered to be a historical concept, the works are not convenient for the educational background of people, and the consumers are continously promoted for purchasing and turned to be a “Consumption Society”, and there is no respect shown to labor. Besides, there has been a cultural degeneration condition occured where the basic values have weakened despite the fact that communication and technology have grown up, where the global instability process exists in international sense by considering that the strong is always right, where the unemployment has reached to the peak point and in that vein, social exclusion has increased, where people have become isolated, and where the importance of social integrity has been forgotten. The possibility whether the system of Ahi community can be a solution to the mentioned conditions is the starting point of the research. In that vein, the aim of the research is to examine whether the system of Ahi community can be a solution to today’s social politics problems. As a result of literature review, it was determined that the system of Ahi community could be a solution to the social politics problems in case the system’s principles were implemented to today’s conditions.

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