Thanks to the hegemonic position of neoliberalism in the past 40 years, the concept of depoliticization has become increasingly popular within academic and policymaking circles. Lately, increasing number of political and social scientists of different backgrounds have employed the concept, defined widely as either a post-political context or a governing strategy to rid the policymaking process of politics, to investigate various empirical cases. In the literature of depoliticization in Turkish, too, the number of studies that examine the political, economic, and social issues of Turkey in light of the concept has significantly increased. Studies have increasingly focused on questions such as how the state elites depoliticize the governance of the economy or how post-modern ideology depoliticizes the politics itself, especially after the 2000s. Based on a thorough review of the relevant literature, this article differs from its precursors but at the same time complements them by discussing the political theory behind the concept of depoliticization and by explaining the relationship between neoliberalism and depoliticization. The article puts forward through what sort of mechanisms, and why, neoliberalism banishes the politics through transferring the political to the economic sphere, which is imagined as a technical sphere immune from politics. Based on concrete examples, the article also discusses the impacts of such processes on how development is practiced across the world in general, and in Turkey in particular. Thus, it demonstrates that the concept of depoliticization does not stand on its own and is in fact a deeper concept in terms of its complex political and social roots, and a wider concept in terms of its various types and areas of utilization.