Abstract
Turkish Metropolitan Municipality System: 1982-2015
The purpose of this study is to analyze main legal regulations of the metropolitan municipality system in the light of cases and practices during 1982-2015 period. Acts, government decrees, decrees in the power of law, secondary legislationsand draft bills are used as methods of analysis. It is argued that the establishment of charters, borders, organs, duties-responsibilities, organization,income and expenses as main parts of metropolitan municipality system. Until 1984 Turkey suffered from the lack of a real metropolitan area management system and any metropolitan municipalities. Turkey became one of the countries with a relatively ripen and comprehensive metropolitan municipality system with 30 years of history, having the application of the system in 30 provinces and containing more than %70 percent of nations population today. Comparing with other countries that have significant number of metropolitan areas or municipalities, a single act regulates all Turkey’s metropolitan municipalities and the system changes frequently since 2004.
Keywords
Metropolitan municipality, Acts numbered 3030-5216-6360
