ABSTRACT
Neo-liberalism has created not only its own social policies but also certain actors carrying out these policies. Justice and Development Party JDP , which recently emerges as a prominent political actor, became the primary executive of the neo-liberal reorganization process in social policy area in Turkey. The new social policy which have been pursued JDP; on the one hand, corresponds to the approach which integrates social security system to capital accumulation processes; on the other hand, achieves to develop social aid programs based on clientelism. In this study the new paradigm determining the characteristics of the social policy regime has been taken into consideration. And, by paying regard to JDP’s economic, political and ideological foundations, the some major implementations of social policy which are indicators of the neoliberal transformation have been discussed
Keywords : Neo-liberalism, social policy, social aid, political Islam, Justice and Development Party