A Review upon the Changes Which Come With the Model upon Turkish Metropolitan Municipality within the Provincial Administrative Boundaries

Abstract

The growing cities in Turkey by the population and spatial terms and the increase of societies' own expectation about services have revealed the basic needs on upcoming amendments for available municipality laws. The constitution act in 1982 brought new and specific management forms for big settlements in Turkey, then the metropolitan municipalities were firstly founded in 1984. Consequently, the metropolitan municipality law 6360 has been finally accepted in 2012. Besides, the area management principle was also accepted for metropolitan municipalities which gave services for rural areas as well as the urban ones. Equaling the service area of metropolitan municipalities to the provincial administrative boundaries resulted in the debates on some important changes upon duties, responsibility issue, and representation and participation concepts. In this study the case of metropolitan municipalities' own available system which has an important place in local governance will be analyzed.