Elkatmis, Metin2025-01-212025-01-2120141301-00851309-0275https://doi.org/10.9779/PUJE587https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12587/24336Turkish Republic, which is the name of a big change and transformation project, aims to educate the citizens in line with the new targets. To adopt these specified new values in society, we need regular, continuous, consistent training. It can be possible with education and its curriculum. In general sense, education curriculums include a systematic plans about both inside and outside educational activities. The purpose of the study is to show how Turkish Republic has built a nation with democratic and active individuals with its primary school curriculums. In this direction the data were obtained from documentary reviewing. To sum up; in the early years of the Turkish Republic's nationalist and secular individuals; in the years of multi-party era democratic individual, and in the 1980s pragmatic individuals such to integrate the society were the profile of the citizens. After 2005 curriculums, the most obvious new goals are to train universal citizens of the world.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEducation; Primary Curriculum; Citizenship; Democracy; Human RightsArticle3611310.9779/PUJE587WOS:000440289400001N/A