Author： Şener Meltem Yılmaz
Publisher： Routledge Ltd
ISSN： 0026-3206
Source： Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.48, Iss.5, 2012-09, pp. : 765-780
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Abstract
This paper presents some related processes in Turkey which have been initiated or influenced by the World Bank's execution of the Social Risk Mitigation Project (SRMP). It argues that the Justice and Development Party (AKP), as a party that redefined social assistance as charity by incorporating Islamic values with neo-liberalism, benefited from the SRMP for increasing its public support. It also demonstrates how the AKP's use of this project for its political aims led to some unintended consequences, causing the production and spreading of discourses about the poor, the Kurdish population and the emergence of a culture of poverty in the country.
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