Nowadays modernized countries take steps to bring the public’s rolein the socio-economic and cultural life to the lowest possible level, ceding thisplace to NGO’s whilst in parallel develop their policies and strategies in a wayto have their respective communities have a direct participation in their socioeconomicand cultural development. As it is the case in various countries’successful examples, despite various problems and complications they face,the non governmental organizations (NGO’s) in Turkey are also putting theirsignatures under projects pertaining to socio economic and culturaldevelopment, thus representing an important potential in this domain. In thisarticle, taking the growing role of the NGO’s in the socio-economic andcultural development as the starting point, the article aims to open a debate onthe effect of these organizations in our day when democratic values are takinga predominant place.