Özet:

The 1930s have been a period of search in the economic and political fields of the newly established Republic of Turkey due to the social reflections of the modernization programmes carried out in the axis of the Turkish revolution, the global economic crisis that exploded in 1929. One of the most important features of this period is the reorganization of production relations by adopting the state economic policy. The National Economy and Savings Society is the subject of this work as an important institution that takes on the task of guiding the people in parallel with the state policies in this transformation process. The primary task of the community was to ensure the import balance and the acquisition of capital in response to the global crisis, and to change the consumer habits of the people and to spread the habits of using domestic products to society. In addition to this mission, the community has acted to root the dominant ideology of the state formed by the principles of the Turkish revolution, as part of the ongoing process of the nation building. In this study, in the period of the most intense implementation of the 1930s’s state-making policies, the National Economy and Savings Society, in the framework of the conception of the ideological instruments of the state presented by Louis Althusser, examined how and how the Society fulfilled this mission given by the state.