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    The inception of the articulation of Turkey to the neoliberal hegemony :|a neo-gramscian analysis
    (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2018., 2018.) Mertan, Tayfun.; Türem, Ziya Umut.
    This thesis examines the process of Turkey’s articulation to neoliberal hegemony via the transformation of the social relations of production and the form of state in its country in the 1980s and 1990s, from a neoGramscian perspective. With this purpose, the relations between Turkey and four international �inancial, military, and political organizations (the IMF, WB, EU, NATO) which played active roles in the neoliberal transformation of Turkey are analyzed. The research concentrates on the areas of material capabilities, legal and institutional transformation, and ideological unity, which are the three categories of force that neo-Gramscians consider necessary for the establishment of hegemonic structure. The subjects of the research are �inancial and military resource agreements made with the aforementioned organizations, the legal and institutional transformation that emerged as a result of Turkey’s relations with these organizations, the ideological unity between these organizations and the elites of the ruling and capitalist classes in Turkey, and the efforts to produce active social consent for neoliberal social relations of