NORWAY, GREECE AND TURKEY IN TERMS OF THE GREAT RECESSION AND THE EUROPEAN WELFARE STATE MODEL: DIALECTIC RELATIONS

Year 2013, Issue: 90, 19 - 47, 01.09.2013

İrfan Kalaycı

Abstract

The global financial crisis 2008 , described as “The Great Recession”, also affected the welfare states such as Norway, Greece and Turkey. The reason why we analyze these three countries in this essay is that there are dialectic relations among them. The first dialectic relation is related to the fact that these three countries have experienced the negative effects of the great recession in different dosages and times: Norway refinanced the global effects of the crisis easily; Turkey experienced the crisis ‘tangentially’; Greece fell into ‘crisis spiral.’ Secondly: Norway is not a member of EU, Greece is a full member, and Turkey is the country whose membership is being discussed. Only Greece has spread the cost of the crisis to Euro region. Thirdly: All of these countries are identified with one of “European Welfare State” models. Turkey and Greece are closer to Mediterranean welfare state while Norway is a Scandinavian welfare state

Keywords

Great recession, European welfare state model, Norway, Greece and Turkey

Büyük Durgunluk ve Avrupa Refah Devleti Modeli Açısından Norveç, Yunanistan ve Türkiye: Diyalektik İlişkiler

Abstract

“Büyük Durgunluk” denilen küresel mali kriz 2008 Norveç, Yunanistan ve Türkiye gibi refah devletlerini de etkiledi. Bu üç ülkeyi bir arada incelememizin nedeni, aralarında diyalektik ilişkilerin bulunmasıdır. Birinci diyalektik ilişki bu üç ülkenin büyük durgunluğun olumsuz etkilerini farklı dozda ve sürede yaşamış olmalarıyla ilgilidir: Norveç krizin küresel etkilerini kolayca finanse etti; Türkiye krizi “teğet” yaşadı; Yunanistan ise “kriz sarmalı”na girdi. İkincisi; Norveç AB üyesi değildir, Yunanistan tam üyedir, Türkiye ise adaylığı müzakere edilen ülkedir. Sadece Yunanistan, krizin maliyetlerini Euro bölgesine yaymıştır. Üçüncüsü; her üç ülke de “Avrupa refah devleti” modellerinden biriyle özdeşleştirilmektedir: Norveç, İskandinav refah devleti iken Yunanistan ve Türkiye Akdeniz refah devletine daha yakındır

Keywords

Büyük durgunluk, Avrupa refah devleti modeli, Norveç, Yunanistan ve Türkiye

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