ABSTRACT
The construction of the counter-trafficking field in Turkey has followed a different course compared with Ukraine and Germany. The differences have emanated from geographic and economic conditions, as well as cultural particularities such as the strong centralist state tradition and the weak structure of civil society. There are two types of relations of power regulating the construction of the counter-trafficking field in Turkey. The first are the transnational power relations, including the world of diplomacy between states and between supranational and international organisations. The second is 'the field of power', as Bourdieu frequently uses the term in his analyses, meaning the field of bureaucracy in a country. The ideological closure of the field of counter- trafficking is built primarily by the definition of the concept of human trafficking the objectification of the problem and secondly by dissemination of an understanding of how to handle the problem the practical logics of the field.
