THE TRANSFORMATION OF TURKISH AGRICULTURAL POLICIES BY THE EFFECTS OF REFORMS DRIVEN BY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DYNAMICS AFTER 1980

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In this thesis building an integrated policy view on the peasant question and the necessities of the structural transformation of development, a multidimensional policy analysis is carried out on Turkish agricultural policies with special emphasis on the period after 1980. The peasant question is classified into two approaches in the literature as; “disappearance” and “persistence”. The disappearance approach declares that with the industrialization, globalization and commodification particularly by the introduction of the neoliberal policies, “modern capitalist agriculture” or “agribusiness” replaces the peasant mode of production called as “depeasantization” and this process is accompanied with “deagrarianization”. On the other hand, the persistence approach is defined in a different logic that the peasants are sustaining and reproducing themselves despite all obstacles. Based on these two approaches, the Development Plans are examined using the qualitative content analysis method. Moreover, the discourses used in the minutes of Grand National Assembly of Türkiye since 1960 are analyzed. Turkish agricultural policies have been changed in the direction of three dimensions; Turkish politics in particular the political power and opposition, the public policies and administration reforms and efforts to alignment with the EU Common Agriculture Policy and structural funds. The reflections of the historical changes and reforms have had influences on policy actors and on peasants. In this context, the peasant question and agrarian transformation are the main questions through which continuities/discontinuities and integrations/bifurcations are tried to be clarified within the context of public policy, polity and politics dimensions.

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Policy Analysis, Politics, Peasant Question, Agrarian Transformation

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İ. DEDE, “THE TRANSFORMATION OF TURKISH AGRICULTURAL POLICIES BY THE EFFECTS OF REFORMS DRIVEN BY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DYNAMICS AFTER 1980,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.