ABSTRACT
Building open the recents scholarship on "traveling ideas" and "translation", the author discusses how ILO and EU labour standards were conveyed to Turkey's political landscape by domestic actors and how those standards were adjusted. The study first anlyses the motivations of the commission that drafted the 2003 labour act, and of employer and labour organizations, for choosing to draw on those inter-institutional outcomes of the reform by examining how domestic actors modified the international standards, while also preserving components of the old labour legislations, as on severance pay.