The origin of mass communication tools that enable mass communication dates back to the printing press, an important invention of the 15th century. With this invention, mass communication developed and the process reached the first newspapers. However, in order to benefit from these media products, it was necessary to know how to read and write and to have a certain level of education. With the invention of cinema and radio following the printing press, this requirement was eliminated and especially radio took its place as a mass communication tool accessible to all segments of society. Radio has maintained its important position since its invention. Radio broadcasting started in Turkey shortly after its first examples around the world and took on very important tasks in the first years. This study aims to examine the emergence and development of radio broadcasting in Turkey and to reveal the role it played in the political and social life of Turkey in the early republican period. For this reason, the development of radio broadcasting between 1927 and 1950, from the beginning of the first radio broadcasting in Turkey until the end of the single-party era, is analyzed from a historical perspective. This is followed by an examination of the social and political tasks undertaken by radio in the early period, which coincided with an important turning point in the history of the Republic.