Abstract
This article is about Turkey's fight through the analysis of the policies and actors against the deadly COVID-19 outbreak, which appeared in China in December 2019 and soon spread over to the global level. Fighting against the epidemic, a biological type of disaster inspired by approaches that characterize today's societies as risk societies with uncertainties; firstly, it is associated with the concepts of Risk Management and Crisis Management, which are two important elements of Disaster Management Process then Turkey's policies, which coincide with both phases, are evaluated in stages within the process approach from public policy approaches. The aim of the study is to evaluate the preparedness plan and health infrastructure assessed within the scope of Turkey's risk management process and within the scope of the precaution strategy adopted during the crisis management phase in response to the outbreak, social awareness, reduction of social mobility, limiting the transportation and circulation, economic regulations, progressive social solidarity to address normalization processes. Informing society especially with the principles of openness and transparency, determine the Evidence-Based policies, establish the cooperation and coordination between the actors in the management process, identify the area of responsibility of the actors, regulate the exceptional conditions in the execution of the precaution have been principles that are taken in this process. It is assumed that Turkey's experience and fight may be a model for determining the policies that will be implemented in the face of future risks during this epidemic which crippling the social life, led to a quarantine of the cities and closure the borders of the states, turn the economic structures especially health infrastructure upside down and although not yet fully measured the effects but assumed will be deep. The study, which was prepared by scanning the current data and sources with the method of literature search, was organized into three headings, except the introduction and conclusion sections.