This introductory chapter presents this volume’s objective: to provide a multidisciplinary analysis of Turkish cultural policies in a context of globalization and of the circulation of peoples, ideas, funds, models, and modes of action. Focusing on circulations, the book proposes a decentered approach to the transfer of cultural policies: it does not consider them in terms of imposition or importation from point A to point B (e.g. from Europe to Turkey) but in terms of coproduction and synchrony. It considers the circulations at the international, national, and local levels and the entanglement of scales. The chapter offers a review of the literature on Turkish cultural policy, followed by a presentation of its approach in terms of circulation and transfer, and an introduction to the other chapters.