Neoliberal transformation of Turkey and Ertuğrul Özkök

In this study the contribution of Ertuğrul Özkök; a journalist, an opinion leader, a symbolic elite, a political director and a capital representative to the establishment; in settling down and in reproduction of new right-politics put forward in application after 1980 military coup has been investigated and examined. The contributions of Ertuğrul Özkök to the neoliberal transformation process that started with the January 24 economic decisions are shown with examples. Ertuğrul Özkök has been handled and evaluated with a Gramcian approach and Gramcian concepts in the research. He supported the 1980 military coup and the 1982 Constitution from the very beginning. During his period of journalism he contributed to the establishment of an organic bond between the society and dominant ideology thus helped the reproduction of dominant ideology and its becoming a common sense in the society. These contributions have been shown as a result of relevant investigations. Özkök, who was in line with the traditional definition of intellectual in the previous historical bloc, can now be described as the "organic intellectual" of the new historical bloc. The aim of the research is; by scanning a significant number of documents and information given in the bibliography; Özkök's contribution to neoliberalism in Turkey was revealed by compiling and conducting the attached interviews with the people involved. Keywords: Ertuğrul Özkök, neoliberalism, organic intellectual, hegemony, media, Hürriyet