The American effect on Turkish education system (1945-1960)

The modernization of The Ottoman-Turkish does not only imply a big process including last three centuries that shows duration but also inholds the rotation that was given to Turkish Republic politically, economically and socially. Innovations that started by the 18th century had reached in different rates and intensities to the republic period, western type of educational institutions became widespread by the end of empire and Turkish Revolution. As the Westernization Movements which have seen in all the societies, Turkish Society has also took the advantage of foreign experts while taking the western type. Where the European centred education comprehension dominated in the period of Atatürk, when the experts were being brought for the fields of needed education from almost all over the world, in respect of the results The World War II that didn?t make a change only in political ranges, as in all fields it caused also the developments in the field of education being USA centred. In 1950, DP (Democratic Party) that came into power thereby overthrew the competence of 27- yearly CHP (Rebublic Public Party) by democratic way, got in touch with USA in also field of education with whom it approached as economically and politically. By the committed bilateral agreements through an official channel, with the help of endowment, the new type of education comprehension which was founded by illegal ways and includes plenty of financial aid allied with the studies in nationwide of more than 40 experts who were called from USA and the ascendancy of USA showed itself also in the field of education. Ultimately the type of USA that is seen as a rescuer, apartfrom solving the needs of changing education of constantly devoloping Turkey, it can be said that it mostly complicate these.