ABSTRACT
Family policies have always played a salient role in the construction of hegemony, ordering society and imposing lifestyles in a certain direction in Turkey. However, these policies gained special significance after the AKP assumed power in 2002. The party has implemented family policies both to promote popular mobilisation and to create reactionary common sense in pursuit of authoritarian populist hegemony. This chapter discusses how the AKP articulated social and education policies with paternalist mentality so as to penetrate into micro-foundations of society. In that context, it argues the historical and political background of these policies with a focus on their current conservative form.
