| Sumario: | The purpose of this article is to evaluate the critique of liberal subject by Foucault in terms of Foucault's power concepts and to describe liberalization process in Turkey after the 1980's by using a Foucauldian terminology. Stating different types of power in Foucault's works and in liberal view, this article examines relations between these power concepts and their views about the subject. It can be asserted that Foucault's critique on subject aims at a form of subject which is shaped by liberal government, according to Foucauldian terms, governing art or governmentality. Therefore themes of liberal government such as free market, negative liberty, minimal state or economy-politics evoke the concept of subject which has criticised by Foucault. From this point of view, the article argues whether such a power or subject concept can be seen in Turkey after the 1980's, following the liberalization discourse had spread on political arena, newspapers and even on the citizen's daily life.
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