THE PERCEPTION OF DISCRIMINATION IN TURKEY the prevention of the channels of intervention by the public power in the area of redistribution of positional inequalities. When a public response is cut off, competition, which is the primary institution of the market, becomes the main determinant of justice and injustice in all areas of life (school, work-life, sports, art, etc.). Thus, by the 1990s, the "equality of opportunity" and related subject discrimination become the focus of justice debates in the public sphere not only in the USA but also in Europe and Turkey. The perspective of equality of opportunity accepts the inequality of class positions as given. It is not questioned why person X occupying the position A gains more than the person Y occupying position B and does not examine the differences in access to resources between these two positions. Instead the differences in opportunities between person X, who strives to reach the status of A, and person Y is concerned. The concept of discrimination will be functional at the exact moment of the observation and investigation of these differences. This transformation does not mean that there was no discrimination before neoliberalism. It merely points out that with the process of neo-liberalization, discrimination has become much more perceptible than the previous periods since all kinds of exchange between people - the ability to access a partner, a diploma or a commodity - become subject to competition. Discrimination based on race, ethnic identity, gender, and religious beliefs and discriminatory practices begins to be questioned and investigated. There is no doubt that the tendency of the cultural turn in the social sciences in the early 1990s and the right based struggles of disadvantaged groups had impacts on this investigation process. However, as we mentioned above, in the emergence of all these tendencies and struggles, we think that the discriminatory practices embedded in the competitive market justice play a vital role. To capture the discrimination practices better today, we would like to include a recent definition of discrimination. “Discrimination is an unequal treatment based on the application of an illegitimate criterion. On the one hand, the treatment requires a tangible and continuous outcome- not an idea but action-; on the other hand, it should be based on an argument unacceptable for society- obviously that changes according to moral references every society makes while constructing the difference between social beings-.7 We believe that this definition is important because, it emphasizes that to accept an unequal behaviour as discriminatory in any society, the reference on which that behaviour is based on must be illegitimate to society. For example, we know that the media organizations that we cited 7 Fassin, D. 2002. “L’invention Française de La Discrimination.” Revue Française de Science Politique, 52 (4): 403-423. 8