Event Title
Turkey's Economic Takeoff
Location
Diamond 241
Start Date
30-4-2015 10:30 AM
End Date
30-4-2015 11:55 AM
Project Type
Presentation- Restricted to Campus Access
Description
Currently, Turkey is among the top 20 economies of the world, but how did this happen? In contrast to the Weberian development theory, Turkey experienced its economic development under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), instead of the military regimes before the AKP. Thus, my research question for this investigation will be: Why did Turkey experience an economic take-off in the early 2000s under the AKP regime, but not during the military regimes of the past? In order to acquire an answer to this question, I will be examining the following hypotheses: (1) in comparison to the previous regimes, AKP implemented strong economic policies to trigger an economic take-off; (2) the seeds of economic growth were planted by the earlier regimes and the AKP government collected their products; (3) the economic take-off in the early 2000s is not a sustainable development scenario for Turkey.
Faculty Sponsor
Walter Hatch
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Government Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1255
Turkey's Economic Takeoff
Diamond 241
Currently, Turkey is among the top 20 economies of the world, but how did this happen? In contrast to the Weberian development theory, Turkey experienced its economic development under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), instead of the military regimes before the AKP. Thus, my research question for this investigation will be: Why did Turkey experience an economic take-off in the early 2000s under the AKP regime, but not during the military regimes of the past? In order to acquire an answer to this question, I will be examining the following hypotheses: (1) in comparison to the previous regimes, AKP implemented strong economic policies to trigger an economic take-off; (2) the seeds of economic growth were planted by the earlier regimes and the AKP government collected their products; (3) the economic take-off in the early 2000s is not a sustainable development scenario for Turkey.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/435