National Protection Law the social and economical results

Republic of Türkiye started to create its political and economical structures following its establishment in 1923. However, the country could not avoid the negative implications of the II World War which were started to spread all over the word. These implications were felt both in political and economical sphere but mostly in the latter. As Türkiye was caught without any preparations and she had not have a planned economy, governments of that time begun to work on this issue. They took extraordinary measures in order to bring the negative effects and harms of the war on the economy to the minimum level.Following the breaking out of the II World War, a lot of curfew measures were taken in social, political, military, economical, civil defence and most other fields in Türkiye as most of the other countries. National Protection Law (NPL) which was approved on 18th January 1940 and came into force on 26 January 1940 in order to prevent the negative effects of the war on the economy and the implementation was started on 19 February o the same year. Until the July 1946 the National Protection Law had been amended five times and around 650 Cabinet decisions were issued for its implementation. During this period in which Refik Saydam and Şükrü Saraçoğlu governments were ruling, the law did not achieved its objectives. While the merchants were not affected by the law villagers and the other classes were badly affected.The aim of this study is evaluating the reasons behind the introduction of the National Protection Law, searching the social and economical results of its implementation. During this study, archives and other resources were scanned, official sources reached and the media of that era were taken into account.Key Words:1.National Protection Law2.II. World War3.Economy4.Republic Public Party5.Statism