The privatization experience in Turkey during the 1980s
Author
Özman Akıncı, Aylin
Advisor
Heper, Metin
Date
1990Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
Privatization, aimed at decreasing the role of the
state in the economy and politics, has been a fashionable
policy tool during the 1980s both in many countries and
Turkey.
As far as the Turkish case is concerned, although the
idea of privatization has been on the agenda from time to
time since the early years of the Republic (established in
1923), the policy has gained prominence and started to be
implemented in the post-1980 period, being a part of the
'liberal’ economic policies of the Motherland Party (MP)
governments.
In this respect, the primary purpose of this study is
that of evaluating the privatization experience of Turkey in
the said period by trying to show the fluctuation in the
policies and inconsistencies in implementation, and
attempting at accounting for them.