Privatization in Turkey

Privatization; does it make any sense for every single country in the context of administrative and managerial? Can it be successful long-term enterprises or is it temporary solutions that getting worse in long-run concept? In this paper, I am going to present privatization in Turkey from the perspective of managerial enterprises focusing most important ones. It considers Privatization in Turkey and its effects on Turkish entrepreneurship and government as well as its economy, especially focuses on the last decade since Justice and Development Party became the government party taking the political power, but also having a look at overall view to the Turkish privatizations since World War II.

There is no doubt it requires to evaluate the privatization history of Turkey within policies and governmental differences in order to understand much better the last and current situation and implementation on Turkish enterprises by government. Privatization became one of the most discussed issues in Turkey due to rapid and huge leap/applications and exercises have been conducted in the concept of free initiatives at entrepreneurial growth or temporary resolution. The general description for privatization was referring that selling the public assets to the private owners, narrowing the economic and social role of the state, and decreasing the social security services to the minimum level. It was requirement of the Neo-liberalism and fostered from the West according to nationalist and extreme conservatives in Turkey.

As a general explanation to describe the term of “privatization” in the field of management; it refers that transferring the state services to the private sector with the different ways for the different purposes in terms of concerned state policy to have more functional managerial structure in the country. The main aim is to provide legality and available conditions for free enterprise, and encourage them in order to improve state productivity in the way of shared-task to have more effective and efficient management in the enterprises that could be conducted. State-owned assets might be sold or shifted to the private enterprises/initiatives, sometimes could be consist of some restrictions or special law/rule and regulations according to conditions of the government and its goals. Implementation of it in Turkey can be classified into three groups to evaluate better and more clear, which are;

- Governments, policies on managerial attempts,

- Privatization, procedure, goals, and current privatizations, and

- Effects of privatization to government & public & country

Governments, Policies on Managerial Attempts since WWII

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