ABSTRACT

This study explores the slow progress of liberalization of real estate internationalization (REI) in Turkey. Drawing on insights from cultural political economy (CPE), it builds on a qualitative analysis of parliamentary deliberations and argues that real estate acquisition by foreigners in Turkey was highly contentious because of the struggle between competing imaginaries on liberalization, with the neoliberal-transformative imaginaries of the ANAP, the AKP, and their affiliates in the tourism and construction sectors on one side and the national-defensive imaginaries of opposition parties and the bureaucratic elite on the other. By forming a coalition with the Constitutional Court, opposition parties were successful in preventing the adoption of neoliberal-transformative imaginaries for almost thirty years. This policy area could be liberalized only after the 2010 referendum, which allowed the government to restructure the composition of the Court, leading to executive aggrandizement.

摘要

本研究探讨了土耳其房地产国际化 (REI) 自由化的缓慢进展。它借鉴了文化政治经济学 (CPE) 的见解，建立在对议会审议的定性分析的基础上，并认为外国人在土耳其购买房地产是极具争议的，因为自由化的竞争想象与新自由主义变革想象之间的斗争。一方面是 ANAP、AKP 及其在旅游和建筑领域的附属机构，另一方面是反对党和官僚精英的国防幻想。通过与宪法法院结成联盟，反对党成功地阻止了近三十年新自由主义变革想象的采用。