An Attempt for an Alternative Framework on the Relationship Between State and Dominant Classes in Current Turkey Zafer Yılmaz This article attempts to develop an alternative framework on the relationship between the state and dominant classes by departing from Poulantzas’ relational understanding of the state. In that sense, it emphasizes that the state can not be seen neither as a subject nor as an object, but rather as a form of the power relations between classes. Also, to understand recent changes in the state apparatuses and reconfiguration of the power bloc in Turkey after 1990’s, it argues that the specific articulation between international finance capital and domestic finance capital must be at the centre of the analysis. At that point it underlies that as foreign direct investment, short-term capital movements are not a thing but a transformative social force, whose interest is represented both within the power bloc and bourgeoisie of the host country. In that sense, the article tries to shed light on how dominant forms of the relations of production are reproduced within Turkey via this specific articulation, which depends on the financing of state debts by the local banks through borrowing from international finance capital.