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The present work is complex research study of the charitable system in Turkey, its obvious and latent potencies, its cultural, historical and political dimensions. The study bases on wide corpus of primary sources – from archive materials, newspapers, official reports of the government and inner reports of different ministry offices to private interviews with the waqf founders and politicians. The author aims to trace the process of abolishment-revival- reinforcement of the system of the charitable institutions (waqfs) in Republican Turkey (1923-1967-2006) revealing the historical dimensions of this process.