Yılmaz Uçar, Aslı2025-05-052025-05-052025Yılmaz Uçar, A. (2025). An analysis of the AKP’s bureaucratic tutelage discourse in Turkey. Turkish Studies, 1-34.1468-3849https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12939/5735The Justice and Development Party (AKP) governments have been using a bureaucratic tutelage discourse. The literature on populism acknowledges the instrumental use of anti-bureaucratic discourse to mobilize masses. However, there is no systematic study on the ideological functions of the populist discourse against bureaucracy to sustain/transform the existing structures and power relations. The analysis of the bureaucratic tutelage discourse of AKP governments between 2002 and 2023 reveals that the bureaucratic tutelage discourse reproduces an antagonistic relation between politics and bureaucracy, and builds a common sense of bureaucracy that should be fully obedient to politics.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessAKPbureaucratic oligarchybureaucratic tutelagepolitics and bureaucracypopulismArticle10.1080/14683849.2025.24544752-s2.0-85217155790WOS:001414895100001Q1