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The main objective of this study is to investigate the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (CKE) hypothesis, which explains the relationship between economic growth and environmental pollution in the reverse-U form in the period 1960-2014 in the Turkish economy. For this purpose, three different regression models have been created using carbon emissions, real income per person, real income quarter per person, energy consumption and commercial outdoors variables. The study used ADF, PP and KPSS unit root tests to determine the stagnation degrees of the variables. The unit root test results allow the use of the ARDL limit test to detect the long-term relationship between the variables. Therefore, the study used the ARDL limit test to study the matching relationship between the variables. In the last stage, the ARDL model has predicted the long and short-term ratio of the variables. The results have supported the validity of the Czech hypothesis for the Turkish economy in three long-term models. The results also present important policy recommendations for the Turkish economy. Keywords: CO2 emissions, economic growth, environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis, ARDL border test, Turkey. JEL Classification: O44, O47, C22, Q56.

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