İktisadî Kalkınma Yolunda Öncü Bir Danışma Organı: Âlî İktisat Meclisi

For both the deficiency of the capital accumulation in the hands of the private enterprise and the increasing bankruptcies happening due to the 1929 Great Depression as well, Turkish Government had considered that the private enterprise wouldn’t realize the expected industrialization. The trials for the economic policies had accelerated by the founded Free Republican Party’s (FRP) support more than the expected and the acceleration of the industrialization had become a political necessity as well. This study evaluates the Supreme Assembly of Economics (SAE), an organization which had been founded as a result of the institutionalization attempts. Like the examples founded in the 19th century, Europe, it had been expected that the SAE’s commitment of a program by the aim of the organization and development economically. It can be mentioned that SAE had been effective on the establishment of the important organizations and the laws in the Turkish Economic History. For this reason, the study begins with a short explanation describing the domestic and foreign reasons exposing SAE and underlines the important results of the reports prepared by the inquiries of SAE. Preparing reports about the industrial and commercial fields by committing inquiries in whole of the country, SAE, unlike its counterparts in Europe, had been a channel for the transition of the demands of the private enterprise through the Government than the conciliation of the interests of the class conflicts.