Les transformations des registres d’action de TÜSİAD dans les années 1990 : le rôle de l’enjeu européen

Since the second half of the 1990s, Turkish political life has been markedly influenced by the growing importance of TÜSİAD, an entrepreneurs’ association which calls for a transformation of the political regime/political system. The association advocates a new, more democratic political system, referring to the reforms expected by the European institutions in the course of / as part of the EU integration process of Turkey. This situation is at odds with the initial goals of the association. TÜSİAD was founded by leading entrepreneurs with the aim of promoting “free entrepreneurship” in Turkey, in a situation where the founding membres felt “threatened” by the risk of an anti-liberal economy and/or a social environnement within which their businesses were not respected. This article analyses how this association, which originally aimed at promoting free-entrepreneurship and market economy, ended up upholding political and legal reforms aiming at the europeanization of the Turkish political system – and consequently, of Turkey