Summary: Acknowledging the scarcity of research on the discipline of political science in Turkey, this chapter presents a historical overview and a detailed depiction of present state of Turkish political science starting from 2000. Late Ottoman and early republican heritage of political science in Turkey is largely dominated by education in law, especially in constitutional law. Since 1960s, individual departments of political science started to emerge. After the introduction of a central administrative overseeing body, the YÖK, or Board of Higher Education, in 1981, political science education began to be delivered more regularly within several different departments such as public administration, international relations, European Union, political science and international relations. The rise of the number of departments required a larger political science community and the student body steadily grew. The chapter provides time-series data on these developments and interprets them. In addition, one can find data and a discussion on gender dimension of political science community, i.e. undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty members, in the 2000s.