to socio-political conditions of the 1980s. In order to understand the socio-political and socio-
economic transformations in Turkey, it is necessary to focus on NPM and NSM literature
together. More importantly, in the age of NPM and NSM it is vital to understand the
development process of education, and its importance as a tool which has been used to
create social capital in Turkey, since this paper aims to answer the following questions: How …