In the early 2000s, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) transformed both itself and its "imagination of the nation", while declaring that it adopted the welfare state that was articulated into neoliberal policies, that it would encounter the unstable economic development with its interaction with international institutions and organizations, and that it would make a nation-centered political choice rather than a state-centered approach. While this transformation has gained a global character with its liberal/individualist citizenship perspective, it has also reduced the phenomenon of the “nation” from its universal understanding to local one with regard to neoliberal nationalism, which has been incorporated into neoliberal populist politics. The policy of the AKP, which implements the concept of nation in its political and economic decisions through its neoliberal nationalist approach, has taken a populist character in the political field, while strengthening the connection of the political with an abstract notion of "people". The connection between neoliberalism, neoliberal populism and neoliberal nationalism is important in terms of making sense of the AKP's ability to hold political power for many years. Depending on the changing international conjuncture, the AKP, which had distanced itself from nationalism from the very beginning of its power, has incorporated nationalist identities throughout time. The AKP, which transformed the key concepts of Turkish politics such as conservatism, nationalism and Islamism along the lines of NeoOttomanism and neoliberalism, has therefore gained a special moment in Turkish political life. This study aims to comparatively analyze the continuities and ruptures within this transformation and “the imagination of nation” by deciphering Recep İvedik 4 and Recep İvedik 5 movies. Thus, while the study reveals the interaction between politics and cinema, it also highlights the enduring and transitory moments of Turkish political life, which are also manifested in cinema.