Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
HISTOIRE@POLITIQUE, sa.53, ss.1-15, 2024 (Hakemli Dergi)
This article deals with the transition of population policy in Turkey from pronatalism to antinatalism in the 1960s, within the scope of the global population control movement of the era. The key focus of the article is to explore the national conditionalities, such as military intervention, local security priorities, the economic turmoil, and the government’s incapability to cope with rapid migration, which forced the Turkish government to adopt antinatalist policies. In addition, the key local initiators of population control, and the public and political resistance to changing the country’s long-standing pronatalist stance are also covered in detail. The article asserts that the idea of population control, which was embedded in developmentalist and modernist discourses by hegemonic powers in the 1960s, was adopted by Türkiye and other Third World countries as long and as far as it was in line with the national interests of these countries.