An Evaluation of the Policy of Statism in Transition to The Multi-party System (1939-1950)

Abstract

The basic case of this study is to point out the pains suffered during transition process into liberalism from the moderate statist model of economic development followed by the Republican People's Party in young Republican Turkey which could not have kept up with the Industrial Revolution and was incapable of building its national bourgeoisie. The war-time economic policies negatively affecting wide public masses increased the unrest in the society and this situation led the ruling party to new analytics. The study is important to understand how the conditions of the Second World War influenced the Turkish political life on one side and the tides of the wartime economic policies on the other side.