"This article evaluates social security reform in Turkey under the government ofthe Justice and Development Party (AKP). It discusses recent developments, describesthe current scheme and points out the Islamist guise dominant in Turkishpolicy and in the discoveries of policy-makers. The article claims that Turkey iscurrently on the road to adopting policy changes that are very strongly influencedby the neo-liberal social security model being advanced by the international institutionsof world capitalism. The plan to ‘neo-liberalise' the nation's social securitysystem will widen the chasm between rich and poor by way of promoting the interestof the capitalist class over the interest of the public as a whole, and will notprovide acceptable solutions to many vulnerable categories of the population.The authors argue that the existing reform will end with welfare losses for the majorityof the population. The reform is expected to expose individuals more thanever to the risk of fluctuations in the peripheral capitalist economy of Turkey. "

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