The security paradigm inherent in neoliberal power structures cannot be sufficiently grasped through liberal political analysis. As a governmental logic, neoliberalism introduces ambivalence into the heart of such basic categories as constitutionalism and the state-civil society distinction and gives rise to new mechanisms of violence and oppression. Discourses of security expand governmental logic both horizontally (to various regions in the world through globalization) and vertically (to civil society). One should take into serious consideration the fact that in Turkey, now part of the global market, power structures have become far more complex than institutional political analyses or studies on political culture portray. In assessing Turkey’s political regime, it has therefore become imperative to discuss the distortions in the fabric of society arising from neoliberal market economy, and the tendency of the state to shed its social duties through structural reforms while at the same time substituting for its weaning authority through discourses of “terror” and “security”.