In Privatization in Turkey: Power Bloc, Capital Accumulation and State, Ahmet Zaifer offers a rare look at privatization in Turkey that involves all three historical periods of the Turkish privatization process -the 1980s and 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s- and covers different forms of privatization from divestiture to public-private partnership. Benefiting from theoretically informed qualitative research spanning nearly a decade that has involved several interviews with key informant groups, extensive review of newspaper articles and detailed analysis of annual reports of businesses, Ahmet Zaifer convincingly proves that the acceleration of privatization in Turkey has not only provided advantages to so-called favourable capital groups and the government elites, but also consolidated the position of Capital in General at the expense of labouring-popular classes and the natural environment of the entire country.
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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
1Introducing the Privatization in Turkey
1Theoretical Approaches to Privatization
1.1Liberal Approaches
1.2Institutionalist Approaches
1.3Marxian Approaches
2An Analytical Framework for Understanding the Privatization Process
2.1Contemporary Capitalism Is the Context that Brought Privatization Policy
to the Fore
2.2The State Is an Integral Element of the Privatization Processes
2.3A Power Bloc Is the Key Class Agent behind Privatization
2.4Privatization Is a Constitutive Element of Domestic Accumulation
Strategies
3Understanding Privatization in Turkey the Structure of the Book
2The Development of soe s in Turkey in Historical Perspective
1 soe s and Consolidation of Capitalism in Turkey: 19231945
2 soe s and Post-war Expansion of Capitalism in Turkey: 19461960
3 soe s , Duty Losses and Class Compromises: 19611980
4Conclusion
3To Privatize or Not to Privatize? Interventions to Privatization Process:
19842001
1The World Bank and Foreignization Campaign of the Power Bloc: 19841993
2The imf Programs, Intra-capital and Intra-state Conflicts: 19942001
2.1 tüsad -based Holdings and Privatization
2.2Intra-capital Conflicts and Privatization
2.3Intra-state Conflicts and Privatization
3Conclusion
4The Acceleration of Privatization in the Post-2001 Era: 2002 to 2009
1Privatization and Internal Restructuring of Accumulation Strategies
2Privatization and Different Fractions of the Power Bloc
2.1Privatization and tüsad Holdings
2.2Privatization and Islamic-Influenced Anatolian Capital Groups
2.3Privatization and Foreign Capital
2.4Privatization and the akp Government
3Privatization and Resistance
3.1Sporadic Labor Resistances: Seka, Tüpra ...
3.2Türk-Metal Union and Domestic Private Iron-Steel Companies: Erdemir
4Institutional Reforms and Overcoming Barriers
5Conclusion
5The Expansion of Privatization Public-Private Partnerships: 20102018
1Conceptualization of the ppp Phenomenon
2Broad Contours of ppp Implementations in Turkey during the 2010s
3Dynamics behind Acceleration of ppp s in Turkey during the 2010s
3.1 Domestic Capital Accumulation
3.2 Power Bloc
3.3 State
4Case Studies
4.1 Bosporus (Eurasia) Tunnel
4.2 Gebze-Orhangazi-zmir Motorway (incl. Osmangazi Bridge)
4.3 Third International Airport for stanbul
4.4 Northern Marmara Motorway (incl. Third Bosporus Bridge)
4.5 Dardanelles Bridge and Knal-Balkesir Motorway (Malkara-Çanakkale
Section)
4.6 Healthcare Campus Projects (City Hospitals)
5Conclusion
6 Comparing Alternatives to Privatization
1Implications of the Turkish Privatization Experience
2What Is a Substantial Alternative to Privatization?
2.1 Traditional State Ownership and Control
2.2 Corporatization
2.3 Democratic Control
3The Question of Strategy: How to Construct and Defend a Substantial
Alternative?
3.1 Building Alliances
3.2 Making the State an Operationally Contested Space/Process
4Conclusion
Appendix 1 tüsad -based Conglomerates
Appendix 2 Islamic-Influenced and/or Anatolian Companies Having Close
Relations with akp-Erdoan
Appendix 3 Divestitures in Turkey between 2010 and 2018
References
Index
Ahmet Zaifer is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Kyrenia. He has published book reviews, translations and many articles on privatization and Turkey. Recent articles have appeared in Critical Sociology, Review of Radical Political Economics, and Journal of Historical Sociology.
