Ünye İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi

Abstract

During the process of
the hazelnut market being reorganized, which practically started within the
context of the protectionist-statist policies that left their mark on Turkey of
the 1930s, the Turkish state acted as an active agent and ensured the starting
of the cooperativization. The state displayed its role in the organization of
the export market following the role it took in the cooperativization of the
production process. In that period, as the capital got stronger, some demands
for change in the structure of the Exporters'
Union, started to emerge. 
Especially after the WWII, the relaxation of the protectionist statist
policies, facilitated these demands being met. This study deals with the footprints of the dissociation
between the İstanbul capital and the Anatolian (Black Sea) capital via the
hazelnut market in the 1950s. It was such that in the second half of the 1940s,
despite the fact that the hazelnut production center was the Black Sea region,
a great majority of the hazelnut exporters were İstanbul-based. The fact
that İstanbul was the de facto center of the hazelnut export brought with it
the demand that the center of the Turkish
Hazelnut Exporters' Association be moved from Giresun to İstanbul. As
a result of this demand having found
repurcussions among the exporters, the Turkish Hazelnut Exporters’ Association
divided into two associations, namely The
Black Sea Hazelnut Exporters' Association and the İstanbul Hazelnut Exporters'
Association.
The dissociation between these two groups in
Turkey can be interpreted as a manifestation of the dissociation between statism
and private sector as well as the Anatolian capital and the İstanbul capital.