Social Policy and Different Dimensions of Inequality in Turkey: A Historical Overview

Ayşe Buğra

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 2018, vol. 20, issue 4, 318-331

Abstract: In Turkey, as in most other societies without mature welfare states, social policy has acquired a novel significance in the context of the late twentieth century economic globalization and the social policy environment has gone through a major transformation especially under the AKP government, which has been in power since 2002. This article presents a discussion of this transformation and explores the relationship between social policy and different dimensions of inequality in contemporary Turkey. It is argued that the emerging social policy regime, although in some ways more inclusive than the former one, is laden with significant inequalities of class and gender, which are shaped by the flexible employment patterns associated with a market-oriented economic strategy and the culturally conservative outlook of the AKP government.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385283

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