Democracy, Populism and Extinction of Nature

In this article, it is aimed to show how to legitimize the relationship between the economic crisis and the desire for cultural sovereignty of the nature of the damage in the world, particularly in Turkey, by using populism as an instrument of political power. In recent years, the rise of populist politics in the world brings the relationship between populism and democracy up for discussion. The increasing economic crises after the neoliberal policies and the problem of representation in modern democracy provides an environment for the support of populist leaders. The populist authoritarian political language, which is rising in many countries of the world, supporting by the public requires the explanation of the cultural and social situation. In the first part of the study, I examine the causes of the axial dislocation in democracy by sampling via Turkey to the relationship between populism and democracy. In the second part, I argue that nature is destroyed by capital as an investment instrument and this is legitimated by populist rhetoric