İdris Küçükömer was a Turkish economist and intellectual known for his controversial and groundbreaking analyses of Türkiye’s socio-economic and political structures. His most famous work, Düzenin Yabancılaşması [The Alienation of the System], advanced the provocative thesis that the Turkish left was “rightist” and the right was “leftist”, a perspective that overturned conventional political categories. Küçükömer argued that Türkiye’s westernisation was superficial and that a centralised, bureaucratic state inherited from the Ottoman Empire obstructed the development of both civil society and genuine capitalism. He believed that true progressive movements were rooted in the Anatolian masses rather than the bureaucratic-military elite. His work also addressed the Asiatic Mode of Production, the role of intellectuals, and the structural obstacles to democracy in Türkiye. Küçükömer became a central figure, or was embargoed, as he claims, in debate for his sharp critiques of Kemalists, leftist movements, and the Republican tradition, which established him as one of the most controversial intellectual voices of modern Turkish thought.