THE ROLE OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGO’S) IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL-VALUE AWARENESS DEVELOPMENT IN TURKEY

Year 2016, Issue: 23, 1 - 32, 25.11.2016

Özcan Erdoğan

Abstract

Nowadays modernized countries take steps to bring the public’s role
in the socio-economic and cultural life to the lowest possible level, ceding this
place to NGO’s whilst in parallel develop their policies and strategies in a way
to have their respective communities have a direct participation in their socioeconomic
and cultural development. As it is the case in various countries’
successful examples, despite various problems and complications they face,
the non governmental organizations (NGO’s) in Turkey are also putting their
signatures under projects pertaining to socio economic and cultural
development, thus representing an important potential in this domain. In this
article, taking the growing role of the NGO’s in the socio-economic and
cultural development as the starting point, the article aims to open a debate on
the effect of these organizations in our day when democratic values are taking
a predominant place.

Keywords

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s), socio-economic development, environmental awareness, employment, democratization, human rights

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