In the last decade Turkey has been perceived as an emerging power in regional and global politics as well as an emerging market economy having joined the ranks of ‘economic miracles’ that wrote history. Behind this success story, public policies in Turkey have been undergoing massive transformation – or so the current debate on Turkey suggests. These transformations take place in a period of strong single party rule creating fertile ground for certain ideas, if promoted by government, to dominate. They are rooted in a domestic policymaking environment characterised by weak policy expertise reinforcing the potential influence of imported ideas, particularly from the EU in a pre-accession context. All these render the case of Turkey as an ideal test case for studying the impact of policy ideas as ‘causal beliefs’ in policymaking processes. This panel investigates policy learning processes in key policy areas: macroeconomic, immigration, regional and employment policies. By exploring the logics of learning taking place in each policy domain, the papers aim to test whether it is ‘scientific’ or ‘constructivist’ processes that dominate therein. The within-case (Turkey) comparative framework of the panel helps keep the macro-institutional, political and socio-economic context constant. The common tightly structured template followed by each paper and the panel’s explicit comparative public policy focus helps reveal different dynamics of paradigmatic shifts in some policy domains and continuities in others. The panel presents the findings of a medium-scale multi-annual collaborative research project funded by TUBITAK on transformations in policy and governance in Turkey.