Abstract:

During the recent years, the importance given upon local governments have been increased, then many reforms on restructuring those governments has revealed, hence "the sense of representation and participation" is come into prominence. Notably, the representation of local communities within the decisions taken on behalf of society gained importance. The city councils, which are under the focal scope of our study, are the ones constituted by "local representatives" being elected by local communities and responsible for protecting the rights of society. The acknowledgement of representatives by society, the representatives' own recognition of society and also representing them emerge as important determinants so that the function of representation might materialize as effective. This study examines the representability of city council members in Turkey within the instance of K.Maraş Case. Under the scope of this study, the profile of all city council members was constructed

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